We stopped in the small town of Shoshone, population around 50, to look at the mammoth in the Shoshone Museum, a wonderful one room museum with creaky wooden floors and display cases full of curios and historical photographs. The mammoth skeleton lay in the back inside a glass cage.

Across the street are a number of caves carved into the rocks by prospectors. Called the Dublin Caves, they were used as homes as late as the 1970s.