Wyoming’s Fossil Cabin Finally Arrives At Medicine Bow

Well, it took long enough, but it has finally happened. Wyoming's Fossil Cabin has finally made it to Medicine Bow.

The Fossil Cabin has made it to its new home! Today, crews worked to move the iconic structure seven miles to the Medicine Bow Museum, where it will be stewarded and maintained for generations to come. Thank you to Discover Carbon County, WY, for inviting us to take part in this historic move! (Alliance for Historic Wyoming).

Wyoming’s Fossil Cabin was located just east of Medicine Bow on US Route 30, is a quirky roadside attraction built in 1932. Constructed from 5,796 dinosaur bones (weighing roughly 102,166 pounds) excavated from the nearby Como Bluff fossil beds, it was famously dubbed "the world's oldest building" by Ripley's Believe It or Not! But it could not be the "oldest building in the world," since buildings made of rock would be older.

The cabin was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. Today, the surrounding gas station and visitor structures are gone, and the building itself was temporarily closed to the public as preservationists work to relocate it into Medicine Bow for restoration.

The building was lifted up off of its foundations and prepped for its trip up the road to Medicine Bow. But it sat there for a couple of years as the project stalled.

Now, according to a post on the Alliance for Historic Wyoming Facebook page, the old house has finally arrived as planned.

This humble little grass airstrip in Medicine Bow helped shape America.

In the video below, you will see what this important airport looks like today.

Medicine Bow has always been a humble little town. But at one point it was an important stop on America's first coast-to-coast railway, its first coast-to-coast highway and the nation's first air mail service.

The town was even made famous in the best-selling novel, The Virginian.

As if the Pony Express wasn't daring enough, next came the brave and slightly foolhardy men who first took the mail to the sky.

Using old and not-so-reliable World War I surplus planes, the United States Postal Service was determined to figure out how to fly mail from coast to coast, saving up to a month of travel time if they were successful.

At the little Medicine Bow airport, there is a cement arrow, pointing the flyers to their next stop. These arrows were placed across the nation for the pilots to see and follow from the air.

The only way to navigate was to fly low and follow the Union Pacific railroad tracks across the country and across Wyoming. The video below will show you what sort of airports they were looking for.

Cheyenne, Medicine Bow, Rock Springs, and other towns along the route were refueling and repair points on the map.

Many planes crashed, for any on a long list of reasons. Some men died.

The book "Wyoming Air Mail Pioneers" chronicles the men who were legends, heroes, and celebrities of their time. They had several stories written about them in newspapers across America.

"Wyoming Air Mail Pioneers" was co-written by Starley Talbott and Michael E. Kassel with a foreword by local Cheyenne flight school owner Doniv Feltner of Wings Of Wyoming.

Ask for it at your local Wyoming bookstore or order it online.

VIDEO OF MEDICINE BOW AIRPORT.