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Hide Dress Laundry

Traditional Hide Dress

Hide Dress Laundry

We got an email from one of our visitors who lives in Florida, she was intrigued by the hide dresses of the Indian women and asked if by any chance they washed them, and if, then how? Our historian Jim Hardee helped us reply to her in telling us the Yucca root is just one [&helli...

Chief American Horse Warrior Society Tipi, c. 1876

Chief American Horse Warrior Society Tipi, c. 1876

One of the highlights of the Museum of the Mountain Man is the full-scale replica of American Horse’s tipi, which stands in the center rotunda of the museum’s main exhibit gallery. The 20′ diameter, brain-tanned buffalo hide tipi is one of the few buffalo-hide tipis in ...

Vernon & Virginia Delgado Winchester Commemorative Collection

Vernon & Virginia Delgado Winchester Commemorative Collection

Permanent Exhibit Upper Gallery Theater The Winchester Arms Collectors Association introduced its first commemorative repeating rifles in 1964, coinciding with the Wyoming Diamond Jubilee. Each commemorative specifically honors a significant person, group, event, or institution i...