Buckey O'Neill Cabin

In the early 1890s, Buckey O'Neill built a log cabin on Grand Canyon's south rim that remains the canyon's oldest surviving historic structure. Grand Canyon's modern era began with people like O'Neill, prospectors and adventurers who soon found tourism more lucrative than mining, and many of their buildings became rugged tourist facilities. In 1898, O'Neill's cabin became part of the Bright Angel Hotel. In 1935, when Mary Colter designed a new Bright Angel Lodge, she preserved Buckey's cabin by incorporating it into her design, and it still provides lodging for visitors today. O'Neill's varied career ended abruptly in 1898 when he was killed serving in Cuba with Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and O'Neill Butte above Grand Canyon's South Kaibab Trail bears his name.

Grand Canyon Village, Arizona · United States