Wardell Buffalo Trap Mural
The Wardell Buffalo Trap Mural is one of the impressive displays in the Green River Valley Museum. The Wardell Trap is a pre-historic Indian site approximately 10 miles from Big Piney.
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New Addition to Museum
A new addition to the Museum houses many more exhibits.
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Halfway Post Office
The Museum is publishing a new book about the history of rural post offices in the Green River Valley, researched by Jonita Sommers. The Halfway Post Office building is on the museum grounds.
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Big Piney Examiner
Big Piney Examiner building.
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Big Piney Examiner presses
Printing presses from the Big Piney Examiner newspaper.
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1937 Chuckwagon Days
1937 article in the Big Piney Examiner describing an early gathering which ultimately evolved into Big Piney Chuckwagon Days over the 4th of July.
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Early Allen Agency Ad
This ad for Allen Agency appeared in the 1953 Smoke Signals newspaper.
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Boyds Cafe in Pinedale
'We used to log with them, now we EAT them,' proclaims this 1953 ad for Boyd's Cafe in Pinedale in the Big Piney Examiner.
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Early Burneys ad
1953 Burney's ad in the Big Piney Examiner. Burney's still exists today selling groceries in Big Piney.
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1953 Classified Ads
Classified ads from a 1953 Big Piney Examiner newspaper.
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DDT Not Harmful
Farm topics column in a 1953 edition of the Big Piney Examiner newspaper proclaims that DDT danger is overplayed.
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River Ice and Coal
In 1937, Big Piney residents could get river ice and coal from H.C. Dunham.
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1909 Big Piney Phone Book
Kemmerer-Big Piney Phone Company 1909 telephone directory.
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Camp Fire Girls Article
Reprint of a 1935 article describing the start of Camp Fire Girls in Pinedale.
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Phone from Frontier Hotel
Phone from the Frontier Hotel in Big Piney.
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Green River Crossing 1913
Crossing the Green River in 1913.
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Dynamite Powder House
Powder House to store dynamite on the Kleinstick Mine on Cottonwood Creek in the Wyoming Range. A booklet entitled, "From Hills to Hearths", has more information about family-operated wagon coal mines in the Green River Valley.
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Coal from Wyoming mine
The Upper Green River Valley had 17 different coal mines served by wagons rather than the railroad. Coal was used by ranchers for forges and heating homes. Later, it was hauled to nearby towns, and used in the oil fields to operate equipment.
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Marbleton Republic newspaper
"In the early part of this month we will print a newspaper at Marbleton, headed with good equipment, and edited with a fair amount of intelligencey along Republican lines. We will endeavor to give the news of the Green River Valley, and at the same time BOOST for the coming town of this community." A Live Paper in A Live Town. Published every Wednesday, $2.00 per year. 1913.
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1000 Shares
1925 stock certificate for 1000 shares in the Mid-Mountain Oil Company.
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1864 Birth Marker Stone
This birth marker stone was found at Middle Piney crossiing on the Lander Trail about 10 miles west of Big Piney. It reads, "Monto?? Hefflemann born here July 3, 1864." Birth stone markers are very rare.
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