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Washakie Museum and Cultural Center

Washakie Museum and Cultural Center

The Washakie Museum and Cultural Center serves as a community arts and cultural center and history museum for the preservation, education, cultural enrichment, and development of the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming.

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.

Adam Schneider, Featherweight Boxer

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

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.

Felix Mercado on sugar-beet farming in the Big Horn Basin

Oral Histories | Felix Mercado, born in 1940, worked with his family in the sugar beet fields around Worland, Wyo. in his youth.

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.

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.

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.
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