What we know
David McShane's 1865 homestead, 'three miles east of Palmer Lake' (PLHS), where he built the stone round house (the fort) of 1868 nearby; a log bunkhouse on the ranch was photographed in 1976 ('at the north end of Monument near Highway 105'). McShane died May 17, 1907.
Where it was
USGS GNIS Locale 193248
The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.
Sources
Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.