This Wyoming Community Bank Discovery Speaker Series Program will host David Gutierrez and his “Life in the Coal Camps” talk on June 12 at 6:30pm at the Pioneer Museum in Lander.
David will speak on his experiences growing up in the coal mine camps of Reliance, Wyoming, right outside of Rock Springs.
Join us at the museum to leave for the T-Cross Ranch where Jackie Blakeman will take us on a tour of this historic ranch located north of Dubois on Horse Creek. The ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Join the Riverton Museum for a complete day filled with history and exploration at South Pass City. We will be introduced to the South Pass City site and its history of gold mining, tour the English Tunnel there, and explore the Carissa Gold Mine! We will be taking a bus from the Riverton Museum at 8:30am and returning at around 4:30pm. From 12-1pm, we will have a free hour to explore the town and eat lunch. You are expected to bring your own sack lunch and water, or purchase your own food there. A fair bit of walking is to be expected. Total cost of admission per person is $20.
Historian and former Fremont County coroner Mark Stratmoen will be telling the story of Andrew Jackson Cooper, a man who stood up against the "Cattle Barons' of the Wyoming Stock Growers Assocation, and was subsequently murdered along the Sweetwater in 1889. Not many are more qualified to talk about a murder 135 years ago in territorial Wyoming than a coroner and historian. Character assassination, slander, journalism bias, political pressure, this seems like a story from modern times. Instead, this is the history of Andrew Jackson Cooper in the Old Wild West.