Podcast #62-S2 Fort Bridger was originally a 19th-century fur trading outpost established in 1842, on Blacks Fork of the Green River, in what is now Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. It became a vital resupply point for wagon trains on the Oregon Trail, California Trail, and Mormon Trail. Fort Bridger State Historic Site maintains and…
Category: Wyoming
Wyoming Pioneer Museum
Podcast #40-S1 Located on the Wyoming State Fairground in Douglas, WY, the Wyoming Pioneer Memorial Museum is dedicated to the documentation of the past. This fine western history museum houses one of the largest collections of historical memorabilia, which will stir your imagination and take you on a trip back through time to an era…
Salt creek Oil Field
Podcast #36-S1 The Salt Creek Oil Field Midwest sits on high ground above Salt Creek, in the middle of the Salt Creek Oil Field, an oval-shaped piece of central Wyoming 10 miles long and five miles wide. People had been extracting oil from the ground there since 1889: a trickle at first, and then a…
Cody Dug Up Gun Museum
Podcast #35-S1 After much work, the husband and wife team, Hans Kurth and Eva Szkultecki opened the Cody Dug Up Gun Museum in downtown Cody, Wyoming, just outside Yellowstone National Park, to the public in May of 2009, showcasing Hans’ life-long collection. After the past 38 years of collecting, the collection now has over 1300…
Hoofprints of the Past Museum
Podcast #30-S1 Hoofprints of the Past Museum was founded in 1989 by a group of Kaycee volunteers in order to preserve the unique local cultural heritage of Kaycee and the surrounding countryside. That heritage includes Native Americans, the Bozeman Trail, Trappers, Traders, and Pioneers, Fort Reno, German Missionaries settlement, and the Portuguese Houses site, conflicts…