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Kenny Sailors, All American, on the jump shot and his life in basketball

Oral Histories | University of Wyoming basketball player Kenny Sailors, one of the early popularizers of the jump shot, grew up on a farm south of Hillsdale, Wyo. He was Wyoming’s only three-time All American, and in 1943 led the Cowboys to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Later he played... Read More »

Edith Thaxton on Dances in the Bighorn Basin

Oral Histories | Edith Thaxton, born in 1898, much later in life recalled the dances of her youth. Read More »

Harold Van Buskirk on Running a Bighorn Basin Grocery Store

Oral Histories | Harold Van Buskirk, born in 1897, worked in a grocery store in his youth in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin. Read More »

Adam Schneider, Featherweight Boxer

Oral Histories | Adam Schneider, born in 1917, was a featherweight boxer in his youth in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin. Read More »

Frances Hecht on Early Housework in the Bighorn Basin

Oral Histories | Frances Hecht, born in 1904, recalls her work curing meat, keeping milk cool without a refrigerator or icebox, hauling river water to wash clothes in a Maytag powered by a car motor and lighting a flame to heat the iron. Read More »

Margaret Goodwin on Early Bighorn Basin Transportation

Oral Histories | Margaret Goodwin, born in 1909, recalls riding in a carriage as a little girl, and her parents’ purchase of their first automobile in 1916. Read More »

Golden Allred, Bighorn Basin trapper

Oral Histories | Golden Allred, born in 1910, trapped beaver, bobcat and other animals for 22 years in and around Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. Read More »