This settlement was once a mail and stage station formerly called "Old Horse Shoe." ... It was named by a visionary young engineer when the railroad reached that terminal in 1887. He was inspired by the nearby fertile valley of Horse Shoe Creek, which is rich in industrial lore. (Christiansen) "Mr. McDermott, who tells the origin of the name Bellewood, which most of the pioneers felt should have been transferred to Glendo when the McDermott family moved there, tells where the name Glendo originated. When the railroad was being built to the terminal, now known as Glendo, the three engineers in charge of construction, William Kidd (chief), William Farley and George St. Dennis, with their crews, stayed at Bellewood. Kidd, an Englishman educated in France, was given the privilege of naming the three high-sounding stations, Cassa (from Latin casa, meaning cabin, or Spanish casa, house), Bona (from the bon, meaning good) and Glendo (from the Gaelic gleann, meaning valley), the valley apparently being at nearby Horseshoe (Bellewood), as the town is located on a high level plain." (Trenholm)
Other Names:
Old Horse Shoe, Horseshoe Station, Bellewood
County:
Platte
Feature Category:
Manmade Features
More Reading:
Footprints on the frontier : saga of the La Ramie region of Wyoming. Trenholm, Virginia Cole. [Douglas, Wyo. : Printed by Douglas Enterprise Co., 1945]
