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...

Wyoming, You’re a Grand Old State (Air: There’s a Long, Long, Trail) By Addie E. Holmberg, circa 1925   Days and nights I’ve been a’roaming, Weeks and months drag through; When I’m far from my Wyoming, All the world looks blue! All my heart is full o’ yearning,...

AN APOSTROPHE TO WYOMING By Addie E. Holmberg, no date.   Awake! Fair Lady, of a sovereign sisterhood! Wyoming, brightest, though a later star! Who, that upon your Rocky peaks have stood, Can fail to feel your glories, beyond par! Behold! What record of Titanic...

The Fremont County Museum System is excited to host a great traveling exhibit to begin 2020. The exhibit is a collaboration between The Autry Museum of the American West with High Country News. The Exhibit: "High Country News: Chronicler of the West" will be on...

Everyone can always learn new things at the Dubois Museum. The Dubois Museum currently has a temporary exhibit on loan from Fort Caspar Museum showcasing 40 United States Naval ships named after Wyoming people and places, including the USS Yellowstone, USS Wyoming,...

Get ready to celebrate Lander’s apple history. The first Lander Pioneer Museum Apple Fest is set for September 14, 1 to 3 p.m. The event will feature apple cider pressing, crafts for kids, a petting zoo, an apple pie contest, a kid’s apple sauce eating competition and...