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Barbara Allen Bogart

Barbara Allen Bogart, Ph. D., has worked as a historian and oral historian in Wyoming since 1991. She served on the staff of the Wyoming State Museum, has worked as a consultant for several Wyoming museums and historical societies, and was director of the Uinta County Museum from 2003 to 2009. She is the author of Images of America: Evanston (Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing Co., 2009) as well as In Place: Stories of Landscape and Identity from the American West (Glendo, Wyo: High Plains Press, 1995).

Evanston, Wyoming

Chinese contract laborers were among the first residents of Evanston, Wyo., which was created as a service stop for locomotives between Green River, Wyo., and Ogden, Utah, on the Union Pacific Railroad’s transcontinental route. Later, travelers drove through town on the Lincoln Highway. The Wyoming State Hospital, known as the Wyoming Insane Asylum in territorial days, is located here. Like many of the state’s towns, Evanston’s rich oil resources contribute to its continuing “boom and bust” cycles, and tourism plays a prominent role in the town’s economy.

Encyclopedia : August 15, 2012 - 1:27pm

Uinta County, Wyoming

Uinta County, one of the five counties of Wyoming Territory, was reduced to its present size in 1911. The Oregon, California, Mormon and Overland trails all passed through the county as well as the Union Pacific Railroad, the Lincoln Highway and Interstate 80. While the county is rich in natural resources like coal and oil and endures economic booms and busts as a result, agriculture continues to be a mainstay. Rancher John Myers established the first ranch on the Bear River drainage in 1858 and filed the first water right in what later became Wyoming Territory.

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Encyclopedia : June 19, 2012 - 10:56pm