The Road to the Little People

In October 1932, while digging for gold in the Pedro mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming, two prospectors, Cecil Mayne and Frank Carr, blasted their way through some thick rock that a large vein of gold continued into. When the dust settled, they saw they had opened up a small room, approximately 4 ft tall, 4 ft wide, and about 15 ft deep. This is where they claimed that they first saw the mummy of a tiny person. 

The mummy ended up in Meeteetse, Wyoming, at a local drug store where it was shown as an attraction for several years before it was bought by Ivan T. Goodman, a Casper, Wyoming businessman. A July 7, 1979, article in the Casper Star-Tribune stated that Goodman died in 1950 and the mummy was passed on to Leonard Wadler, a New York businessman.^[7] The mummy has not been seen in public since Wadler, who died in the 1980s, took possession of it. The mummy’s whereabouts are currently unknown.-Wikipedia

I first heard of the Pedro Mountain Little Man about two weeks after I moved to Wyoming in 1973. I worked on a survey crew that summer with a History teacher named Ray Houser from Casper. He had spent quite a few years gathering information on the Little Guy. He was investigating some leads in the Kansas City area at the time of his death.

Through the years, I met two other people that had seen the Little Man. 

              A Trip to the Pedro Mountains of Wyoming

 The Pedro Mountains lie in a remote part of Central Wyoming near the backwaters of Pathfinder Reservoir

Lots of rugged country in the foothills.  

     Here is the cabin that Cecil Mayne and Frank Car used when they  prospected in the Pedro Mountains. They worked a mine called the "Little Man  Mine," that is located about a half mile from the cabin                                                                   

 I made my way through the rocky terrain and noticed quite a few caves along the way. I examined several that showed sign of animal use. It is said that there are thousands of caves in the Pedros.

The view was quite spectacular from the top

I found this odd Elk shed.

Looking ahead, I could see movement on the hilltop ahead. 

Through my telephoto lens I could see that it was indeed two of the Little People peering down on me!

I believe that this could be the first photos taken of a tribe of Little People that still live high in the Pedro Mountains of Wyoming. Remembering what the Shoshone say about provoking the Nimergar, I figured my canteen was nearly empty and I best head back