Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch

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Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch
Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch is located in Wyoming
Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch
LocationJct. of Coffeen Park & Spear-O-Wigwam Rds., Story Johnson County, Wyoming
Coordinates44°33′04″N 107°12′38″W / 44.5510433°N 107.2104961°W / 44.5510433; -107.2104961Coordinates: 44°33′04″N 107°12′38″W / 44.5510433°N 107.2104961°W / 44.5510433; -107.2104961
Area15 acres (6.1 ha)
Architectural styleVernacular dude ranch
NRHP reference No.16000053[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 23, 2016

The Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch is a former dude ranch, now a campus of Sheridan College, Wyoming, the Spear-O-Wigwam Mountain Campus. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It is located at the southeast end of , about two miles north of Cloud Peak Wilderness Area at altitude of 8,300 feet (2,500 m).[2]

It closed as a dude ranch in 2011.[2]

One of its log guest cabins is known as the "Hemingway Cabin", where Ernest Hemingway stayed in 1928 with his wife Pauline while writing A Farewell to Arms. The cabin is approximately 42 by 18 feet (12.8 m × 5.5 m).[2]

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  1. ^ a b c Mary Humstone (April 15, 2015). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch / Spear-0-Wigwam Mountain Campus" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved May 19, 2017. With 14 photos from 2015.



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