In 1940 the Lander High School (then known as the Fremont County Vocational High School) Social Studies classes put together a lengthy report on life in Lander in the late 1930s and 1940. 150 students participated, interviewing old timers, business leaders and...
The regular meeting of the Fremont County Museum Board is postponed due to lack of quorum until March 15th with the work session at noon and the meeting at 1:00 at the Riverton Museum. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Over the years dozens of small businesses made Lander’s Main Street their home. The Lander Pioneer Museum recently received a donation of photographs, ledgers, a safe, meat cutting tools and more from Bille’s Market. Located in the 200 block of South Main, Bille’s...
Cowboy Poetry by Rodger Weitzel at the Lander Pioneer Museum Saturday March 3, at 6:30 p.m. The Pioneer Museum in Lander kicks off its 2018 Speakers Series March 3 with a program by respected local cowboy poet and author Rodger Weitzel. Weitzel is known for his...
Noted Lander author and poet Rodger Weitzel is known for his humorous and poignant poems about life in the Lander Valley from an old time cowboy perspective. Some of his well-known poems are “The Fremont” about the old Fremont Hotel in Lander and “Memories in Mother’s...
