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#Lookback: Joshua Terry
Joshua Terry was born in 1825 in Ontario, Canada. He was an early convert to Mormonism, and came to Wyoming Territory sometime before 1851 when he met Jim Bridger at Fort Bridger. Bridger offered Joshua a job, and Joshua worked as a trapper and a trader with the...
#Lookback: Yellowstone Park Transportation Company
Living a mere 82 miles away from the southern gate of Yellowstone National Park means it is easy for residents of the Upper Wind River Valley to drive into the park for the day without much thought. Paved roads, signage along highways, and heated or air-conditioned...
#Lookback: Edward J. Farlow
Edward J. Farlow was born in Dallas County, Iowa, in 1861. He was the son of Isaac J. and Martha E. Farlow. At seventeen, Edward Farlow met a family friend named Baxter Anderson who was working for Tom Alsop at a ranch on the Big Laramie River. This family friend gave...
#Lookback: Black Coal, An Arapaho Chief
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. When he died in 1893, Black Coal was the chief of the Antelope band of the Northern Arapaho. The Antelope band numbered...
#Lookback: The Wind River’s Spooky Side
Is this image spooky or beautiful? Maybe both? Sights, sounds, and smells that tantalize as well as terrify people fill the Wind River Valley and Basin. Hearing the angry shuffling of a bear hidden by bushes is probably as disconcerting as trying to fall asleep in a...
#Lookback: Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. The Riverton Museum has a small collection of canes of all shapes and sizes. Canes have a long history of being used as a...
#Lookback: Spanish Influenza 1917-1920
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. The Spanish Influenza 1917-1920 came in three waves. The first wave circulated in the fall and spring of 1917- 1918 and...
#Lookback: Medical Help in Dubois
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Esther Mockler titled her memoir Eighty Miles from a Doctor because that was the reality that people dealt with for...
#Lookback: Fenimore Chatterton and the Formation of Riverton
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Fenimore Chatterton was born in Oswego, New York, on July 21, 1860. In 1865, Fenimore’s father, German Hamond Chatterton,...
#Lookback: Ft. Washakie, Camp Brown & Camp Auger
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. The Wind River Reservation was created on July 3rd, 1868, through an agreement between the United States government and...
#Lookback: High Country News: Fifty Years of Conservation Journal
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. The Fremont County Museums are hosting a traveling exhibit highlighting the first 50 years of the Lander born magazine...
#Lookback: General Election of 1940 in Horse Creek
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Let’s go back in time, 80 years ago to be exact. It’s 1940. Within 12 months, Germany will invade six European countries,...
#Lookback: Irrigation: The Wyoming Central Irrigation Company
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. In the summer of 1906, stockholders for the Wyoming Central Irrigation Company were approached by Fenimore Chatterton,...
#Lookback: The Smokehouse Saloon: Dubois Wyoming
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Historians often joke that towns in the American West began with three buildings: a bar to drink at, a bank to get money...
#Lookback: Howard Stanley Crispin: Stone Mason, Sculptor, Electric Plant Manager
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Howard Crispin was one of the early settlers in Lander who literally built Lander stone by stone. He apprenticed as a...
#Lookback: Oil & Gas
A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. In the early 1830s, oil was first sighted in Wyoming Territory by the Popo Agie River about 10 miles south of present-day...
#Lookback: Daylight Savings
#Lookback: Daylight Savings A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. The Upper Wind River Country has always had a unique mix of people that call this place home....
#Lookback: Bullwackers and Mule Skinners
#Lookback: Bullwackers and Mule Skinners A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. What do we do on a cold snowy January day when the pantry is low on flour and...
#Lookback: Black Bridge
#Lookback: Black Bridge A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Missouri Valley is the name given to an area near Riverton, north of Lost Wells Butte, and east...
#Lookback: Isabel Jewell: Fremont County’s Hollywood Actress
#lookback by Mick Pryor with Edward Jones A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Isabel Jewell was born on July 15th, 1909. Initially, Isabel attended school...
#Lookback: Margaret Burke Hennen Dickenson
#lookback by Mick Pryor with Edward Jones A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. The life of Maggie Burke Hennen Dickenson parallels the history of the United...
#Lookback: Milton White’s Western Life
#lookback by Mick Pryor with Edward Jones A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Milton White, and his wife Mary, spent nearly 60 years in the Dubois area....
