The 2nd annual Pioneer Museum Best Apple Pie Contest was a big success! We had a dozen pies entered and 6 Lander folks took home prizes and ribbons. In the kids category Brooks Evan won 1st place, Avery and Tiny Tsentas won 2nd, and Alex Wise won 3rd. They all got...
The Riverton Museum Pumpkin Trail The Riverton Museum will be hosting its first Pumpkin Trail on Saturday, October 17th around the museum with carved pumpkins donated from businesses in Riverton. The museum will begin lighting the pumpkins at 5:30pm and the event will...
The Riverton Museum is excited to name Megan Ostrenga as their new Site Manager. Megan moved to Riverton from Lubbock, Texas and began working during the last week of August. She has hit the ground running with new ideas for updating the museum’s exhibits and programs...
The Fremont County Museums: Dubois Museum, Pioneer Museum in Lander and the Riverton Museum are scheduled to open to the public beginning May 26th at 9am. All three museums will resume their regular open schedule Monday-Friday from 9-5 at this time. The museums have...
Joshua Terry was born in 1825 in Ontario, Canada. He was an early convert to Mormonism, and came to Wyoming Territory sometime before 1851 when he met Jim Bridger at Fort Bridger. Bridger offered Joshua a job, and Joshua worked as a trapper and a trader with the...
