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 Basin Cowpunchers and frontier life tales
A sprawling reminiscence recounts 1880s Basin Wyoming, detailing cowpunchers like Burnett and Wick wire calming a warlike Indian threat at Medicine Lodge, early settlers Lovell McNay Morse Rath and McClellan, Gray Bull country ranches, the Crown and Hoodoo outfits, Corbett and Arland trading posts, and the rough frontier social scenes including saloon life and brand names.
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Idaho
Medicine Lodge
Macarty
Burnett
Johnny Booth
Hyattville
Booth
Wickwire
Booth Place
Wick
QO. W. McNay
Big 7
Basin
Lovell
Washington Territory
Dan Lee Morse
Billings
Oscar McNay
Lovell Horse Ranch
Trapper Creek
Big Horn River
Lou Blanchard
Twizaleton
Leper
Rogers
Newater
Blanchard
Windy Dill
Windy Bi
Pwiszleton
Tle
George B. McClellan
George
Shell Creek
Fort Custer
Monana
Canada
Red Bank Land and Cattle Company
McClellan
Big Horn County
William D. Pickett
Upper
Greybull
Pickett
South
Lum Wilson
Basin Country
Leadville
Colorado
Montana
Woodriver
Cheeseman
Wilson
First National Bank of
Meeteetse
Fred Whitney
Lander
Ile
How
Meelelise
Whitney
New York State
Ainworth & Johnson
Spge Creek
Cody
Johnson
Ashworth
England
Richard Ashworth
Paris
France
Watkins Brothers
Shep Men
Count DeCore
Britisher
A. C. Newton
Crown Ranch
Trial Creek
Mr. Newton
George W. Wise
Meeteetse Creek
Wilson Ranch
Wise
Wyoming
W. T. Hogg