A unique exhibit at the Carbon County Museum is a pair of shoes made from the skin of "Big Nose" George Parrot. Big Nose, a notorious outlaw and killer, was lynched by a mob in 1881. Afterward, the attending physician cut skin from his chest and had a pair of two-tone saddle shoes made from it. (The physician, Dr. J.E. Osborne, later was elected governor of Wyoming, and reportedly wore the shoes to his inaugural ball.) The physician also sawed off the top of Big Nose's skull and turned it into a pipe holder. The skull, minus skullcap, is displayed next to the shoes.
The skull cap somehow migrated east to the Union Pacific Railroad Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.
