The Spanish Influenza 1917-1920 came in three waves. The first wave circulated in the fall and spring of 1917- 1918 and seemed like a regular flu season without exceptional mortality. The second wave started in the fall of 1918; the virus had mutated and became much...
Esther Mockler titled her memoir Eighty Miles from a Doctor because that was the reality people dealt with for decades in Dubois, Wyoming. When someone asked her how one copes with living eighty miles from a doctor, Esther responded, “you become innovative and you...
A Song for the Bishop is Holmberg’s tribute to and history of the Wind River Indian Reservation and Fremont County’s Episcopal minister the Reverend John Roberts, 1853-1949. Holmberg died in 1941 so this tribute would have been written several years prior to Roberts...
Part of a recent gift to the Fremont County Pioneer Museum is a set of Post Trader trade tokens from the J.K. Moore store. The full gift will be on exhibit at the museum in the summer of 2020 with select pieces being added to the J.K. Moore store permanent exhibit in...
In The Leapin’ Lariat Holmberg plays with dialect and accent she must have heard in some Lander residents speech. It speaks in combination of the western pioneer either really or in spirit still existing in Lander, the rodeo and the roping skills of residents. She...
