This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Early Gowmen and Basin Basin Pioneers in 1880s Tales
The remnant of Hon H S Ridgelys Basin Country history recounts early settlers in 1881 82 including Uncle George Marquette founder of Marquette town now submerged. Captain Torrey and J L Price built Embar ranch. the Torreys Bar X Bar and Big Horn Cattle outfits shaped Basin stock raising with dozens of families named such as Wilsons Hunsingers and Luman outfits. anecdotes cover dances with Crow Indians and a famed 1883 killing case later linked to Charley Twizzleton and two hunters. continuing note on 1883 events and forthcoming page 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ainsworth
George Marquette
South Fork
Marquette Creek
Flora Newton
Cody
Wyoming
George
Marquette
Government Lake
Ohio
Robert A. Torrey
Fort Washakie
Owl Creek
Basin Side
J. D. Woodruff
Embar Ranch
Upper
Woodruff
Torrey
Lander Country
J. L. Price
Price
Jay L. Torrey
Rough Rider
M— the Embar
Rocky Mountain Cattle Company
L. G. Phelps
Chicago
Wilson
Harriet
John Gleaver
Wood River
Gleaver
Andrew Wilson
Nancy
Wilsons
Colorado
Meeteetse Creek
Greybull
Meeteetse
Jacob
John Hunsinger
Big Canon Creek
Tensleep
Milo Burke
Buffalo
Jackson
Canon Creek
Paris Dougherty
Frana Hatten
Hyattville
Basin
Hunsinger
Oscar Hunsinger
Clark’s Fork
Crow Reservation
Rue
Greybul River
Bud Kimball
Nowood River
Johnny D. Hopkins
W. P. Noble
Noble Ranch
Big Horn Cattle Company
Burke
Tengelep
B. F. Wickwire
Lander
John Luman
Luman
Wickwire
Wick
Nowood
Lovell
Medicine Lodge
Sykes
David Matthews Ranch
Captain Belknap
Charley Twizzelton
Luman Ranch
Big Horn
Nowater
Dunham