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Unless you've had a chance to spend much time on the back roads of Wyoming, chances are you may not know that Boysen Reservoir even exists. And unless you're a real history buff, you probably have no idea who Asmus Boysen is. Well, settle back for a bit and let us bring you up to speed.
Asmus Boysen was born in Denmark in 1868, but he settled in Illinois and in 1900, while on a mining exploration trip in Wyoming, he visited the Wind River Canyon and envisaged a dam that would provide electricity to nearby mines and water for irrigation. (Isn't that sort of thing the basis for most dreams of dams?) (Would we call these people "dam dreamers"?) Anyway... He got the dam built and in 1908, he used the dam to produce 710 kilowatts of power for his nearby copper and gold mine on Copper Mountain. Unfortunately, Asmus had a problem. Oh sure, the dam worked just fine, but the water it backed up flooded the railroad tracks, and Boysen wound up getting sued by Burlington Northern. I'm sure the mighty financial power of Burlington Northern at the time had some impact, but to make a long story short, Boysen lost the suit, lost his fortune, his dam and his dream. His original dam was torn down, although some of the original concrete abutments are still visible along the river today.
The dam that is in place today has once again created a reservoir, and both the dam and the reservoir are named after Asmus Boysen. The reservoir sits on the Wind River Indian Reservation, and covers some 19,560 acres. The reservoir holds a good collection of fish, Walley and Sauger share the waters with Rainbow, Cut-Throat and Brown Trout and there's large mouth bass, bluegill, Lake Trout and more swimming around in there too.