When in Jackson Hole WY. in 1988 I wanted to visit the remnants of some of the buildings from"Shane". We were given directions to this place but I found out later they had nothing to do with the film. All structures were torn down except one and it isn't here. But close enough for me. Any one from Wyoming here recognize the cabins we were at?

What are known in Jackson as the "Shane cabins" are located on the Gros Ventre road just not too far from the small hamlet of Kelly, Wy. They have more trees around them than the pictures you posted, but perhaps because of the passage of time? Can't tell if they are the same as the ones you posted. I don't really know if they are truly from the film, but it's the common name for these dilapidated cabins.

Everywhere I'ved looked said the only things left from the film is part of a visible hole on a little hill that was the graveyard where you could see the town in the background below, and "Ernie Wright's" cabin which was left there because it was an actual pioneer cabin where all the others were sets. Here's that cabin which is in an area with trees around it like you said.

I watch that movie waiting for these words: "I heard that you're a low down Yankee liar."

I've see trees change the landscape over time in other places as well.

SD has the Stratobowl, where high altitude balloons were launched beginning with the Explorer I and Explorer II in 1934 and 1935.

The Stratobowl was also used for eleven Stratolab launches in 1956, 1958 and 1959, as well as one launch in 1959 and four launches in 1965 for cosmic ray studies.

It was also the site of the round the world balloon attempts in 1982 and 1996.

I had visited the site in the mid 1970s and it was still very much preserved as a balloon launch site. I went back and visited the site 30 years later and the bottom of the bowl was just meadow with several good sized pines growing in it.

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I also visited the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk.

Between the 60 ft granite monument built on top of Kill Devil Hill in the 1930s, and the grass, shrubs and in particular trees planted around the perimeter of the site to "protect" the dunes, the site no longer looks anything like it did in 1903.

In fact, if it looked that way then, the Wright Brothers would have went somewhere else as it would have been totally unsuitable for their needs. In their effort to save history, they totally destroyed it.

I was born centuries way too late. Wish I lived there back in time.

Well, those pictures exhibit why the homesteaders
wouldn't make it. The cowboys were correct.

You'd be willing to. live without the S&W Forum!!!!!!!

What a miserable, atrocious life you would have had.

The “Ernie Wright” cabin, or “the Shane cabins” as mentioned above and that I posted a picture of is the authentic cabin that has tons of photos online. Looks like there have always been trees there. I was not here. And I wasn’t at “Mormon barns” another popular site to photograph. I think I’ll email the Jackson Chamber of Commerce with pictures and ask.
Looking at the Shane pic I posted with the town in the valley, I believe I was off to the left a couple miles. Combining fact and fiction, when all the farmers met at Starrett’s ranch, the people living in the cabins we visited would have probably been there.

Not me. I would be dead by now if it weren't for modern medicine.