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The town of Ten Sleep got its name from its location on a major Indian trade route that connected an important Indian camp in southern Montana with another important camp on the Platte River near the present sit of Casper, Wyoming. It took twenty days ("sleeps") to make the trip, and the place that was halfway between the camps was "ten sleeps" from both of them. After settlers arrived, the area saw conflicts between cattlemen and sheepmen that climaxed in the infamous Spring Creek Raid, where three sheepmen were murdered and more than 5,000 sheep killed. The Pioneer Museum in Ten Sleep has many interesting mementos of those violent days, along with a fine collection of pioneer tools, clothes, and weapons. |
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