| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Murie, Adolph | Emilene Ostlind |
| Murie, Louise | Emilene Ostlind |
| Murie, Mardy | Emilene Ostlind |
| Murie, Olaus | Emilene Ostlind |
| Nelson, Aven, longtime University of Wyoming botanist | Lori Van Pelt |
| Newspapers, Jackson Hole | Kerry Drake |
| Newspapers, Jackson Hole, photo controversy | Kerry Drake |
| Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park | John Clayton |
| Parkitecture, Wyoming | John Clayton |
| Pathfinder Dam | The National Park Service |
Largely forgotten today is the stiff local resistance that arose in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to the creation and later the expansion of a national park there. The story covers 31 years of controversy, and includes a Rockefeller, a movie actor and a group of armed ranchers trailing cattle illegally across a national monument, and some of the most beautiful scenery in North America.
The abundant vertebrate fossils of the Green River formation in western Wyoming have been known to science since the 1860s. Most are fish, buried in lime-rich mud at the bottom of freshwater lakes about 50 million years ago. Fossil Butte National Monument, west of Kemmerer, Wyo. was created by Congress in 1973 to protect a site extremely rich in these fossils.
Western Wyoming’s Green River drains 4,000 miles of forested mountains and high desert, home to migrating wildlife, grazing cattle, a few thousand people, and in recent decades a booming natural-gas business. Since prehistoric times, people have worked to balance the basin’s resources for their own benefit — and that struggle continues today.
Guernsey State Park, near Guernsey, Wyo., boasts an elegant group of stone, timber and iron buildings built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, and overlooking scenic Guernsey Reservoir.
Lucy Morrison Moore, “The Sheep Queen of Wyoming,” was a leading sheep producer during the heyday of public-land sheep ranching from the 1880s to 1920s. Smart, tough and slightly eccentric, she and her family survived brutal, isolated conditions and attacks from cattle ranchers.
