#lookback by Mick Pryor with Edward Jones
#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...
#Lookback: Outlaws and Roughnecks on Rock River
It’s an unexpected sight to discover classic ionic Greek columns on a building in the middle of the vast, windswept grasslands of Albany County,...
#Lookback: Belle Mote and the beginnings of the Acme Theatre
Most people who live in Riverton know the Acme Theater. The building which houses it has been a fixture of Riverton’s Main Street for...
#Lookback: Riverton’s First Refinery
Booms and busts are inherent to many sections of the economy, perhaps none more so than the oil and gas industry. While many fear...
#Lookback: Gebo – A True Wyoming Ghost Town
Wyoming is a land of boom and bust. Since the early days of the fur trade, the Oregon Trail, and now in the economic...
#Lookback: An Eastwood in Maverick Springs
“I read an article about Clint Eastwood and he was raised in oil fields,” said John L. Sullivan, a Riverton resident, speaking to Connie...
#Lookback: Swan Service Station
The Swan Service Station has been a part of the Dubois Museum since the 1980s. However, the building did not start in this location. ...
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