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Women Proprietors of Early Meeteetse Part II: Mary J. Corbett By Amy Phillips Mary Josephine Corbett led a fascinating life, and not only because of her numerous divorces. She was born in Brome, Quebec, Canada in 1854 as Mary Josephine Wing. Mary came to the United States in 1871, a date listed on the census […]
Stage & Mail Service to Meeteetse Part I: A Brief Look at Otto Franc and his Pitchfork Ranch By Tom Davis “Pitchfork Ranch History: The valley of the Greybull River in northwestern Wyoming has been the center of operations for the Pitchfork Ranch since 1878 when Count Otto Franc von Lichtenstein selected a location and […]
The Mystery of the Iron Creek Brickworks By Amy Phillips The First National Bank and Weller Hotel are both built from local brick. The question is, how local is that brick? The First National Bank was built in 1901. Unfortunately, the newspapers from Meeteetse at that time period are not digitized or are completely missing. […]
Early History of the Meeteetse Blacksmith Shop By Amy Phillips, Director of Education and Programs William McNally earns the distinction of owning the Meeteetse townsite before it was a town. McNally was born in New Jersey in 1853 to Irish immigrants. At age 22, in May of 1875 McNally enlisted with the U.S. Army 5th […]
Bison of the Bighorn Basin: Radiocarbon Dating Results and New Questions By Amy Phillips In June 2021, we sampled 23 bison from the Project to conduct radiocarbon dating and stable carbon and nitrogen analysis (Figure 1). For analysis, the samples were sent to John Southon at the University of California, Irvine W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle […]
Valentine’s Day By Alexandra Deselms, Interim Director Valentine’s Day: A History Valentine’s Day brings memories of school parties with cards and candy exchanged and/or fancy date nights. The Museum recently found some historic Valentine cards in our collections and thought we’d look into them, to see how they fit into the history of Valentine’s Day […]
1918 Pandemic in Meeteetse & Park County: Part III Not “Business as Usual” By Alex Deselms, Interim Director & Director of Collections For our next post in this series on the 1918 pandemic in Park County, we focus on how life goes on or is paused during an epidemic. Politics continued through the influenza pandemic […]
Experimental Archaeology: Bison Butchery By Dr. Lawrence Todd One of archaeology’s central goals is to make reliable interpretations about past conditions based on the traces that survive today. This is difficult and requires a tremendous amount of time and effort spent trying to develop, evaluate, and refine archaeological interpretive methods. Finding artifacts and other clues […]
40th Anniversary of Rediscovery: Looking Forward By Amy Phillips with guests Ryan Phelan, Revive & Restore and Shawn Walker, ViaGen Pets and Equine In 1981 the black-footed ferret was rediscovered on the banks of the Greybull River here in Meeteetse, Wyoming. Shortly after rediscovery, the ferret population was struggling due to canine distemper and sylvatic […]
1918 Pandemic in Meeteetse and Park County Part II Rules and Regulations By Alexandra Deselms, Director of Collections In the previous post on the 1918 pandemic, we discussed symptoms, personal protective equipment, and medicines through local newspaper accounts. Today, we move on to discuss a related topic: rules and regulations. About a week after […]
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