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Clayton Mountain, a 10,219-foot peak in Wyoming’s Absaroka Range, is closely tied to one of the state’s worst wildfire tragedies. On August 21, 1937, fifteen firefighters died on its west slopes while fighting the Blackwater fire, including United States Forest Service ranger Alfred G. Clayton, for whom the mountain was named. In 1938, the Civilian Conservation Corps built two memorials on the west slope to mark where members of the CCC and the Forest Service perished. The mountain remains both a prominent summit in the Absarokas and a memorial landscape connected to Wyoming’s wildfire-fighting history.
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Wyoming · United States