Columbus discovers Daggett County
...and others settle down
Cow critters on Henry's Fork
Rope and branding iron in Brown's Park
Illustrations: Early dwellers symbolized their history, legends, on rocks -- Desert tribes lived in brush wickiups, while Mountain Utes and Shoshonis had buffalo hide lodges -- Shoshoni chief Washakie kept his people from fighting invading whites with their superior weapons -- Temperamental Ute chief Walker, although "converted" by Mormons, resented their interference -- Jedediah Smith -- Tom Fitzpatrick -- Jim Beckwourth -- Jim Bridger -- Ceran St. Vrain -- Tom "Pegleg" Smith -- Kit Carson -- John "Jack" Robertson -- William Craig -- Captain Joe Walker -- Antoine Robidoux -- Jim Baker -- "I took ye fer an Injun" (the highest compliment one mountain man could pay another) / Frederick Remington -- Kit Carson was guide and companion for explorer John Charles Fremont -- Sam Bassett -- William A. Carter and his wife Mary became wealthy and influential -- Phil Mass -- Ex-slave Ned Huddlestone, alias Isom Dart, was one of many black cowboys -- Asbury Conway (Conaway) was fond of the bottle, palled with the Herrera gang, was later a prominent Wyoming lawyer and judge -- Billy Tittsworth -- Uncle Jack Robinson, trapper, trader, squaw man, teller of tall tales, gave many settlers their start -- John Baker -- Elijah "Lige" Driskell settled near the mouth of Henry's Fork in 1868, built up ne of the finest ranches in the region -- Joe Parrot -- Jimmie Reed -- Clarence King -- High Uintas: "one of the grandest and most perfect mountain views in the West" / William H. Jackson -- A typical open range roundup -- Charley Davis -- Shade Large lured pretty young Maggie Bazil, Sacajawea's grand-daughter, to his camp in 1873 and married her, Indian style. They were legally married in 1881 -- Cowboy Gavin Barr R taught George Hereford and George Finch cowpunching. George Solomon settled in Conner Basin -- The Hereford family -- The Bear Valley boys and the Black's Fork Riders, Evanston 1889 -- Bill Hill and his wife, Florence; daughter Catherine Hill married Zeb Edwards --
Illustrations: Gene Hickey -- Four generations of Welches: Mother Florence Hill, son Willie, Tom with grandson Tommy -- Jim Lamb -- Old timers pictured in 1933: Tom Welch, Baldy Gamble, R.J.B. Taylor, Will Stoll, George Hereford, Vorie Pearson, James Perry, George Stoll -- Charley Sparks -- Ed Rife -- Dr. John Parsons -- Charley Crouse came to the Park in -76, married young Mary Law -- Crouse's mother and stepfather, Frank and Sarah Tolliver -- Renegade priest Jim Warren ran a not too ethical outfit on Pot Creek -- Albert Seger -- Herbert Bassett -- Matt Warner and his brother-in-law, Tom McCarty, drifted from cowboying to rustling to bank robbery -- Roy Parker, alias George Cassidy, went to Wyoming penitentiary in 1894 for horse stealing. Pardoned by Governor Richards, he promised not to pull any more jobs in Wyoming -- It was customary to prop dead outlaws up and take their pictures. Bill and Fred McCarty after their holdup at Delta in 1894 -- Outlaw romance: Elza Lay and Maud Davis -- After Big Nose George Parotti was lynched in Rawlins in 1878, a cast was made of his head, shoes and other articles from his skin --
Illustrations: "Deaf Charley" Banks, "Peep" O'Day, and Bill Cruzan were occasional members of the Wild Bunch
Women of the Wild Bunch: Etta Place; Laura Bullion; Annie Rogers
Circulation of this Fort Worth picture in 1900 led to the breakup of the Wild Bunch: Will Carver, Harvey Logan, Harry Longabaugh, Ben Kilpatrick, Butch Cassidy
Felix Meyers, Joe Davenport
A group of Brown's Park cowboys: Joe Davenport; George Brown; John Dempshire; Felix Meyers; Isom Dart; "Crane" Wilson; Frank Mills; Buffalo Jack Rife
"Sam Smith of the Rockies" disappeared mysteriously
In her seventies Queen Ann Bassett admitted, "Everything they say of me, I did
Frank Ellison and wife Eva
Alvin Smith and Sarah Ann Nelson were the first couple to be married in the little Mormon community
Marius Larson, wife Elna, daughter Helga
Charles and Celinda Olson
The Gottsche outfit south of Rock Springs was typical of big Wyoming sheep companies
Much-married Josie Bassett died alone in her cabin near Jensen
Dr. Fay Tinker not only treated the sick but he and Mary also taught school
Laura Nielsen at their cabin on Sheep Creek
William Green was the first Forest Guard for the old Uintah Forest Reserve
Orson and Theo Burton, and Oscar and Emma Swett, ranched at Greendale
Andrew Stewart was Daggett's first county clerk. His daughter Verda was sole member of Manila's first high school graduating class in 1922
The 1912 Manila schoolhouse became the county building when a new school was built in 1922
Teacher Heber Bennion, later Utah Secretary of State, was a twentieth-century pioneer. His wife, Vera, hated "this awful wilderness" at first but grew to love it
Jack Allen, Joe Steinaker, Mark Anson
On a bender in Green River, Aunt Mary Harper let all the prisoners out of jail. Asked to leave town, she started a hotel in Manila
Postmistress Eleen Williams hands Tim Potter his mail
The Bureau of Reclamation dam in Red Canyon was a $63 million project
Keith Smith ferried his sheep across the Green [River] until 1932 when he built a narrow suspension bridge
Keith Smith and Frank Adamson enjoy the sun
Proprietor of the old Linwood store, George Rasmussen, and his wife Minnie chat with customer Mabel Adamson
The unique state line school in Linwood, run by two school boards in two states.
Maps: Flaming Gorge country
The trappers' West 1807-1840
Fort Davy Crockett 1837-1845
Roads and neighbors 1849-1881: Cherokee trail 1849; Overland trail 1860; Ft. [Fort] Bridger
Brown's Hole Road 1863; Union Pacific R.R. [Railroad] 1868; Carter Road 1881; Green River
