Category: Wyoming
Opening & Closing the Old Faithful Inn
Depending on where live in the country, you sometimes have to ready your home for the cold winter months. Now image getting a 300-plus room…
Yellowstone by Stagecoach
Today you can take a highway loop to the sites at Yellowstone National Park. In the days before cars, that trip was made in a…
An Inn by the Geysers
In the latter half of the 1800s, explorers and early visitors to what is today Yellowstone National Park were amazed by the area’s geysers –…
Pioneer Days of Ten Sleep, Wyoming
If you are a resident of Wyoming, a four or five hour drive to get somewhere may not seem too bad. In a state where…
Fort Bridger
This fort serviced the Pony Express, the Oregon Trail, and was around so long it even slept travelers by car. It’s a big history in…
New Ownership of a Fort
You usually don’t think of a fort coming under new ownership. But that’s what happened to this site that bears the name of a frontier…
One of the Best Known Mountain Men of the 1800s
He was one of the best known mountain men of the early 19th century. A man who was skilled in the fur trade and later…