A point of rocks about two miles northeast of Jackson on the Biological Survey Elk Refuge. Once used by outlaws to resist the attempts of U.S. Marshals to arrest them. Cal Thompson was the most notorious of the outlaws and it was he who used the protection of the rocks to stand off three United States Marshals who were after horse thieves and cover the escape of his partner. At that time, about the middle of the 1880's, there was a small cave running back into the rocks but Thompson did not have time to get that far so he merely hid behind the rocks. It is whispered around, not too loudly, that some of the "honest settlers of Jackson Hole" were also hidden on top of the rocks known as Fort Stand Off with rifles trained on the officers ready to rescue their friends, the outlaws, in case they were captured by the Marshals.

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