Join the Riverton Museum for our annual Fremont Haunts speaker series event! Alma Law is a local educator and collector of ghost stories who will be presenting on his spooky stories and urban legends from the Fremont County area! Come to the Riverton Museum before to learn some scary local stories before Halloween!
The Riverton Museum is hosting Jack Schmidt for this Wyoming Community Bank Discovery Speaker Series on October 8th from 6-7pm.
Learn about the historic practice of Cowboy Poetry from Jack Schmidt! Jack Schmidt will be talking about the history of cowboy poetry, how it affected people, and where the practice of cowboy poetry is headed. Jack has been reciting cowboy poetry for decades now, carrying on the tradition of many famous cowboys like Tim McCoy.
This event is free and open to the public.
Join the Riverton Museum on September 6th at 9am for a Wind River Visitors Council Adventure Trek to the J.B. Okie Manor. Experience a rare tour led by the building’s caretaker around the sheep tycoon’s mansion build in 1901. This tour is filled with stories from Okie’s life, the history of the manor, and details of the home’s features.
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.