Sometimes called the “Big Springs” by emigrants, Warm Springs is best known in Wyoming folklore as “the Emigrant’s Laundry Tub”. This later term can be confirmed by at least one account, that of Pusey Graves who camped nearby on June 24, 1850. he wrote, “After I finished my letter to send back to the Fort, I proceeded to the spring a distance of 1 1/2 miles with my bucket of dirty clothes.”

Early settlers found this area littered with wagon train debris and many graves. Of the graves, only one remains to be seen today. It is located across the draw southwest of here.