Wyoming Frontier Prison (Rawlings, Wyoming)
This is another tip from Frankie: “Another tourist attraction in Rawlins is the Wyoming Frontier Prison. Tours are pretty informative about prisoners who were killed by other prisoners, guards murdered by prisoners, reports of the prison being haunted, etc. One of the best things is that they open up the gas chamber and you can climb inside and sit on the very same chair used on doomed prisoners.”
Mormon Handcart Visitors’ Center (Rawlings, Wyoming)
As Desmodus says, “It’s like the Donner Party only really laughable and with no cannibalism.” Learn about the great Mormon Handcart Tragedy – where some ill-equipped and dim-witted Mormons pioneers from England left Iowa and embarked on a 1,200 mile wilderness trek to Salt Lake City to late in the year… with the expected tragic consequences.
Carbon County Museum (Rawlings, Wyoming)
Frankie writes to tell me about this place, which sounds just too strange to be true: “I just returned from a roadtrip and thought you might be interested in listing the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins, Wyoming as part of your Morbid USA. They house the remains of a man who was lynched back in 1881. His skin was made into a pair of shoes and the top of his skull used as a doorstop. The gentleman who wore his shoes later became Governor of Wyoming if you can believe it.”