The Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch is a former
dude ranch
A guest ranch, also known as a dude ranch, is a type of ranch oriented towards visitors or tourism. It is considered a form of agrotourism.
History
Guest ranches arose in response to the romanticization of the American West that began to occur ...
, now a campus of
Sheridan College, Wyoming, the Spear-O-Wigwam Mountain Campus. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2016. It is located at the southeast end of
Park Reservoir, about two miles north of
Cloud Peak Wilderness Area at altitude of .
[
It closed as a dude ranch in 2011.][ With 14 photos from 2015.]
One of its log guest cabins is known as the "Hemingway Cabin", where Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo ...
stayed in 1928 with his wife Pauline while writing ''A Farewell to Arms
''A Farewell to Arms'' is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant () in the a ...
''. The cabin is approximately .[
]
See also
* 4 Lazy F Dude Ranch, also NRHP-listed in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
References
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
National Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, Wyoming
Dude ranches in Wyoming
Sheridan College
Buildings and structures in Johnson County, Wyoming
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