This is the monument to Lowell O'Bryan at the University of Wyoming. O'Bryan was a University of Wyoming student who was topping off horses that were to be used in a celebration to greet incoming University President Arthur G. Crane when one of the horses broke and headed towards a fence and a group of students. O'Bryan, an experienced rider, went to dismount the horse and turn it while it was breaking, which was experienced at doing, but the saddle slipped and he was thrown under the horse, receiving fatal injuries as a result. O'Bryan's 1922 death was memorialized by this feature, which is a drinking fountain of an unusual design.
O'Bryan might also be commemorated in the murals that were formerly in the student lounge and which are now in the west ballroom of the Student Union, although that is not clear. Several different figures in the murals may depict O'Bryan.
The lamps shown here are near the fountain are not part of its design, but rather were placed in that location in front of Old Main in 1911.
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