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!
Basin’s Early Press and Pioneer Figures Chronicle
Fragment from a Basin history recounts W. G. Collins ex mayor, Gebhart, Patten, Hyatt and Washakie. It notes Basin’s rise as a county seat, the Basin Republican, Hyattville’s founding, and Patten’s 1871 74 tenure as the first Indian teacher at the Shoshone Agency, his buffalo hunt, and early Basin life with vivid scenes of plains settlement and Indian relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Collins
Basin
Big Horn
Paint Rock
Greybull Standard
Gebhart
Binkesley
Edgar
Alamo
Alamo Argus
Bas'n
Gebhart & Anderson
Basin Repubbican
Hasbrouck
Hyattville
Basin Country
Samuel Hyatt
Buffalo
Johnson County
Mr. Hyatt
Hyatt
Jas. S. Patten
Co. C
184Th Il
4Th Board of Trade
Hancock
Board of Trade of
Chicago
Denver
Colorado
Laramie
Wyoming
Randall
Episcopal Church
Church Indian Commission
Grant
Trout Creek
Fort Washakle
Forth
South Forks
Little Wind River
Camp Brown
Lander
Fort Washakie
Washakie
Indiana
Patten
Shoshonee Indian Agency
Big Horn Basin
Mr. Patten
Will Haynes
Owl Mountains
Red Canon Trail
Wind River
Grasse Creek
Wannypite
Washakle
Owl Creek
Greybull
J. D. Woodruff
Embar Ranch
Tom Williams
Black Hills
Upper Shell Creek
Buffalo Creek
Thermopolis
Woodruff
Williams
United States Indian