Archive: https://archive.today/gykmZ From the post: >>Rising out of rich pastureland in southeastern Wyoming, a 60-foot-high pyramid known as the Ames Monument is “an architectural oddity even many Wyomingites know little about,” according to Wyoming State Parks. The pyramid was built from massive granite blocks and completed in 1882 to honor Oakes and Oliver Ames, key dealmakers in the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. It was strategically located to attract eyeballs on high ground near the Union Pacific Railroad line in Albany County. But in an ironic twist of fate, the Union Pacific line was relocated, leaving the monumental honor to these railroad power brokers out of sight and mind.