Amelia Earhart’s Forgotten Cabin and the Double D Ranch - Wyoming

hello everyone it is steven and andrea from pin in the atlas and what an incredible location we have found today and somebody very famous once stayed here yeah we're going to explore the double d dude ranch now unfortunately the actual ranch house itself is under renovation by the forestry service but there are some other buildings that we can explore and we can take a look at the ranch let's take a look so this is the double d dude ranch and this was built in the early 1930s carl dunword who built this ranch actually bought pretty much the whole area including cohen hmm now one of carl's first guests was amelia earhart and her husband george oh wow and then i'll just show real quickly does not stay private property no trespassing it just says it is the property of the united states all persons are prohibited under penalty of law from committing damage or theft yes it was uh donated to the forest service in 1992 and i believe well i was told that they have been renovating it so last year they were they did have builders up here it's pretty neat it is incredible i would love to be able to get inside of it well hopefully what they're doing the renovations they will allow people to go inside i'm walking around looks there's other buildings back over here too the fireplace they've even capped it to stop the birds and stuff getting in yeah you can see they're redoing the mortar between the the logs here now somebody just told us what that was and uh it's escaping me at this point what the way they've done the logs the actual name when they're putting the the mortar in there because i remember commenting it makes saying it makes me smile but now i forget what the term is this is another little entrance just looking to see if there's any dates carved in anything i don't see any got a little door up there so if there would have been a porch back here at one point and this is the garage and there's a hole in the wood so let's see if we can take a sneak peek i got modern uh building supplies bunch of bags of quick crete so here is a small cabin with the door open there aren't any signs we've walked around the exterior see if we can peek in real quick [Applause] so this must be what they're gonna be doing to the main ranch just kind of making it safe enough for a decent display to come in and enjoy it see these are all brand new uh two by fours and one by on the roof and nice little wasps nest and there are a few others we can explore as well here's the next one in line this one still has windows in it where they have redone the windows looks like this is where the stove used to and be the vent pipe straight above it and this old sink there aren't not plumbed or anything there are quite a lot of wrap droppings so that would have been where the bath was i would have thought would you ah that's kind of weird should we go anti-clockwise yeah i like the uh how they've done these doors this is a really quiet little cabin it is that's neat [Applause] oh here we go there's another sink with some plumbing in it it's a basin the basin pardon me basin is for bathrooms sinks are for kitchens so we make you think that this would be the bathroom yeah and maybe that one that we first entered was the kitchen some kind of a nest up in there and then back through again i like the the way they've done the woodwork in here really neat now door's missing out of this one all right let's go to the next one and this is the cabin we were just in wanted to show how they balanced it on these rocks it's kind of sketchy this appears to be the last little cabin on this section no steps there this is cute oh i wonder if they had 55 gallon drum [Applause] this is i really like the way that they're fixing these up and what's in here just a tiny little yeah tiny little room just trying to see where the stove pipe would be but it doesn't appear to be one unless they've uh blocked it well we've covered it back in because you can see how they've done it they've got between the uh the cracks of the boards there it's particle board on the top and then they've just taken these logs and cut them down makes it look pretty authentic pretty neat then here it appears we have found a swimming pool so it makes you wonder if this was uh here when a amelia earhart was here i wonder if she used to swim in this that would be pretty neat interesting it also makes you wonder if any of those cabins that we walk through if one of those was one that she stayed in that they've you know fixed up or whether or not she stayed in the main ranch i would imagine she stayed in the main ranch yeah seeing as she was carl's first guest now this one looks pretty neat overlooking the the river you can hear in the background again there's windows in this one [Applause] this one's got a fireplace stone fireplace isn't that quite that's very cool and this little bench it's kind of like that other one that was in the uh the second cabin we went to so i wonder if that was for wood could have been for wood or could be like a window seat with storage underneath how cute is this yeah this one's really neat floorboards are nice and sturdy see a lot of the light bleeding through the roof there and some of the walls so don't think they've actually fixed this one up yet well all the boards on the roof are new brand new [Music] but i don't think they've completed the other side because as you can see there's no light bleeding through here so this one's still a work in progress it's nice that they're doing it up there it is and no explore would be complete without a trip to the loo i wonder if amelia earhart used this single seater yeah again looks like modern materials to fix it up you see a little moon shape to that the lighting and then this looks like the last little cabin we can explore on this property so coming inside oh i like that those shelves there that's pretty neat see they've got roofing material along the back there so this is the original fireplace it looks like it because it oh sure they've got kind of blocked it in here but i would i would think that that probably was a fireplace and this i would imagine was the bedroom it's got a little wardrobe yep and [Music] kind of ensuite oh really well there's a basin in there but you can see a hole in the floor where they look like some sort of plumbing that or not that's fallen through [Laughter] it's cute it is and i also like how it's uh you like these handles made of wood yeah that just the natural natural look and how this is open it's separated but it's also open you know making our way up to amelia earhart's cabin or the remains of i should say we've come across these two buildings and of course it might be a little bit early but no explore would be complete without a trip to the outhouse let's take a look so what were these of this is to do with the tumblin mine they were mining silver and gold up here nice and yeah this one's in pretty pretty bad shape but still standing cool so instead of being out in the desert where we gotta check for snakes before we start filming up here we gotta be on the weary of bears and grizzly bears with that bears yes so we are armed with bear spray we're making lots of noise yep and just double checking everything before we film so like this little cabin here take a sneak peek inside and it's just a large room now that's quite a different hoist house than what we're accustomed to seeing but still absolutely beautiful so william kerwin discovered low quality gold and silver in the area in 1885 but the town of kerwin grew in 1897 and that was when the first lot of ore was transported out by mule and that is the worthington boiler that's a big piece of machinery and then like we always say i mean you know this this isn't light it did come up in pieces and was put together but still bringing that up this because we're over 9000 feet yeah 9 300 i believe let's take a peek inside take a gander you can feel the weight in these doors very cool i mean these were like you know the uh [Music] the mechanisms of the day let's take a look around the front and i can see that looks like the roof is sitting a bit funny hello so here's the hoist and the uh the mine shaft which is filled in and then this is a great view now the worthington boiler patented in april 1890 august 1894 and august first 199 is that no 1894 again interesting people have put firewood in there okay richard we've got one for you so you've got this part right here the piping so there's one piece and then this here as well assuming it had something to do with the boiler because there's a pipe running off that direction towards it so then you've got the old cable down here as well yeah the leftover cable from the hoist which we'll come over and look up that's a view it's really pretty isn't it it is i think it's one of the prettiest hoists we've seen so we've just come out that door show you the ore chute see it's got a trap door right there they could close obviously when they're hoisting themselves up and out of the mine still just absolutely beautiful i love to look at this so besides stomping our feet making a lot of noise singing to keep the bears away the bears away the bears away this is what happens we're singing to keep the bears away so they don't eat us for tea or lunch or dinner for a snack we're singing to keep the bears away don't have to stop we're seeking to keep the bags away so they don't eat us for tea this looks like it was a pretty nice cabin so i wonder how many people think that this one's uh amelia's yeah but amelia's is another half a mile up the trail i wonder who lived here though next you can see here there was cabinets on this side it was pretty pretty large size i'm gonna say it goes back there's almost less a second room there and it also looks like there's a something else behind very strange let's keep going we have made the long hike from that direction and just look at these majestic mountains you can hear the stream flowing in the background this is a very beautiful spot and it was going to be the spot that one amelia earhart wanted to grow old in but unfortunately you know the story the theories and the mystery behind her disappearance and thus the small cabin here was never completed so amelia came and visited the double d ranch back in 1934 and fell in love with the area it was a couple of years later that she contacted carl and said that she really wanted to have a cabin built this was the start of the cabin and as you mentioned in 1937 port amelia disappeared and work on the cabin ceased it's kind of uh sad they didn't finish it as a a tribute to her it'd have been i'm sure a very popular thing to see i think just still kind of make out the outlines of where the footprint this cabin would have had yeah the trees have grown on right these these trees here along the front so it was uh four timbers high yeah and we've entered i guess with by the front door the front drawer yeah pretty amazing piece of history though it is it's quite um i'm really happy we made it up here and uh amelia wherever you are if you are here with us i hope you are resting in peace and your memory will live on forever so if you decide to make the journey up here you can uh and you're on horseback you can tie your horse up right here then of course as you see in the background there were two other structures on the property that the forest service still uses but you can also kind of date them look at the door mechanism it's pretty neat and lift this one oh it doesn't lift any higher i don't know whether or not if you can put the camera right up against it you might be able to see inside i know i can see curtains with the metal screen it's a little difficult oops i peed through this peephole here and i could see curtains let's place this up so that was a little cabin and there's another one right here which again it's locked up you see the bathtubs yeah the washing tubs out here oh oh guess what i've discovered yeah it is it's another lou we're hitting the mother lode today let's take a look now can you imagine having to go to the loo in the snow and having to come down these rocks i mean you'd be slipping on your butt yeah i might not make it to the loom before it all came out oops i mind that this uh prickles that one has definitely seen better days oh yeah we certainly hope you enjoyed coming along with us to discover a little piece of amelia earhart history that not a lot of people know about yeah and the double d dude ranch very interesting and on that note get out there go and explore put another pin in the atlas and we will see you on our next adventure bye singing to keep the bears away the bears away the bears away singing to keep the bears away so they don't have us for dinner and lunch and breakfast