The Sierra Madres, the southernmost of Wyoming's mountain ranges, once hosted a highly successful copper mining industry.  The Rudefeha Copper Mine -- named for its four partners Rumsey, Deal, Ferris, and Haggarty -- was connected to a smelter at Encampment by an aerial tramway sixteen miles long.

Encampment's museum preserves the copper boom history including a part of the tramway, as well as a two-story outhouse from the mining village of Dillon where people were not as peculiar as it might seem -- the upper level of the outhouse was used only when the snow got deep enough to bury the ground level.