#lookback by Mick Pryor with Edward Jones
#Lookback: John and Dave Williamson
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. These famous words have greeted millions of immigrants since the Statue...
#LookBack: Pavillion through the years
Change arrived quickly on the Wind River Reservation in 1906. The 1905 Agreement between the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes and the United States Government...
#Lookback: Winfield Scott Firestone Sr. 1858-1933
The U.S. Civil War broke out when Winfield was just a young child. The young German emigrant family lived in what is today West...
#LookBack: Butch Cassidy Rides Fremont County
In the spring of 1890, Butch Cassidy rode into the southern Big Horn Basin for the first time. Flashing a lot of cash, and...
#Lookback: Joe McCarthy in Fremont County
On October 12, 1952, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin delivered a speech to a crowd of over 3,500 GOP voters at a Republican rally...
#Lookback: Louis Andrew Manseau
Louis Andrew Manseau, better known to the people of the Upper Wind River Valley as “Andy”, was one of the first cowboys to ride...
#Lookback: Dubois Cold Storage
For many years on the corner of Ramshorn Street and Horse Creek Road, the Dubois Cold Storage plant served many in the Dubois area...
#Lookback: Descendant of Sacagawea and Teacher of Tribes
Esther “Essie” Burnett Horne
1909-1999 ...
#Lookback: The Grueling labor of Early Sugar Beat Farming
Sugar beet farming has a long history in the Big Horn Basin and Fremont County. Today machines do most of the heavy work, but...
#LookBack: Hollywood Comes to the Wind River Reservation
Almost a century ago, a silent film production company came to the Wind River Reservation looking for actors to play in black and white...
#Lookback: The Husky Oil Company and Riverton’s Second Refinery
Because of the great expenses associated with producing, transporting, and marketing oil, it was extremely rare for an individual to find great success in...
#Lookback: An Act of Prostitution in Fremont County 1914
The Mann Act (also known as the White Slavery Traffic Act of 1910) was a federal law that criminalized the transportation of “any woman...
#Lookback: Teaching in Dubois
The job of teaching in the Upper Wind River Valley was not an easy one in the early 20th century. The pay was not...
#Lookback: Electric History
With the installation of an Electric Vehicle Fast Charging station at the Lander Museum this summer, Lander continues to be pioneer in Wyoming electric...
#Lookback: Tom Knight, “The Mid-century Giant”
Mayor, aviator, philanthropist, showman – Tom Knight was all these and more. His is a true rags to riches story, and all the more...
#Lookback: Murder and Mayhem on the Cheyenne – Black Hills Trail – The Story of Persimmon Bill
Every outlaw had an alias, a catchy nickname that provided a little pizzazz to his otherwise nefarious behavior. We all know Butch Cassidy, the...
#Lookback: The Many Schools Of Dubois
The main challenge of education in a rural community before the advent of widespread cars, paved roads, and school buses was making a place...
#Lookback: James and Matilda Laird
James Laird was born on July 9, 1844, in Illinois; he evidently lost his parents and spent some of his childhood in an orphanage...
#Lookback: Belle Mote and the beginnings of the Acme Theater
How Belle Mote Laid the Acme Theater’s Sturdy Foundations
Most people who live in Riverton know the Acme Theater. The building which houses it has...
#Lookback: Visible Gas Pumps
Do you need to see your gasoline to know what you’re getting? Today, we usually trust that what we get at the pump is...
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