J. Pierce Cunningham established the Bar Flying U Ranch in the 1880s. Today, his "dogtrot" style cabin is one of the few remaining homestead cabins in Jackson Hole. This style cabin was common in eastern states, consisting of two small cabins joined with an open, covered breezeway. Cunningham chose this land because silt sediments deposited from an ancient glacial formed soil that retained moisture and provided better nutrients for raising lush grasses and forbs. An agricultural depression, the beginning of the conservation movement, and the hardships of ranching in this high mountain valley lead Cunningham to sell his land to the Snake River Company in 1928 and retire to Victor, Idaho.

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Homestead owned by J. Pierce and Margaret Cunningham.