A Look Back At Amelia Earhart's Wyoming Adventures

"Today is National Amelia Earhart Day! Did you know Earhart fell in love with Wyoming and planned to build a summer cabin here?" wrote the Wyoming State Museum today on Facebook.

Earhart first came to Wyoming in 1931 in a gyroplane (pictured) as a campaign for Beech-Nut’s chewing gum. In Wyoming, she made stops in Cheyenne, Laramie, Parco (Sinclair), Rock Springs, and Le Roy to promote and refuel.

A few years later, with her husband George Putnam, she visited the Double Dee dude ranch near Meeteetse.

They spent three weeks enjoying the west, and after their visit, filed a mining claim in the area and wanted to build a small two-room cabin. However, construction was immediately halted when Earhart went missing at sea in 1937.

A monument was erected in her honor outside of Meeteetse, and some fragments of their “would-be” cabin remain.

Amelia Earhart Memorial outside of Meeteetse. Courtesy Wyoming State Archives.

The Beech-Nut gyroplane, Cheyenne, 1931. Courtesy Wyoming State Archives.

Amelia Earhart in front of a gyroplane, Rock Springs, 1931. Courtesy Wyoming State Archives.

June 1931: American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898 - 1937) climbs into the cockpit of her airplane at Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, just before embarking on a trip to California. (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images)

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), American Aviation Pioneer, Portrait, 1937. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

(Original Caption) The above photo shows Miss Amelia Earhart, copilot of the transatlantic plane, Friendship, atop the roof of the Hyde Park Hotel in London, getting a view.

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