Named after an early Mormon settler, Mathias Cowley, who settled there in 1900. (Annals of Wyoming 14:3) "Cowley ..., Big Horn county, Wyoming, was named in honor of Apostle Mathias F. Cowley." (Jenson)
County:
Big Horn
Feature Category:
Manmade Features
More Reading:
With book and plow : history of a Mormon settlement. Partridge, Mark N., [Lovell. Wyo. : Mountain States Printing Co., 1967]
