Images of America – Big Piney and Marbleton
Big Piney and Marbleton are one mile apart, and attempts to combine the two towns have been unsuccessful. The area had been home to family-operated cattle ranches starting in 1878, and a year later Daniel B. Budd and Hugh McKay brought 1,000 cattle from Nevada and were stopped here due to the weather. Founded by Daniel, Big Piney was incorporated in a boggy area on July 5, 1913, and is the oldest settlement in Sublette County. Daniel’s eldest son, Charles, had hoped to build the town up on the bench to alleviate the problem of wet land. He founded Marbleton, the newer town, which was incorporated in 1914. Big Piney has been called the “Icebox of the Nation because it had the coldest year-round average temperature in the country when it was officially made a weather station in 1930. Cattle remain a vibrant part of the local economy, and the land has been drilled for oil since the 1920’s. Both towns have known several booms and busts, typical of the energy industry.
ISBN – 978-0-7385-7588-9
128 Pages
Softback
6 1/2″ x 9 1/4”
Arcadia Publishing, 2011
Images of America – Fort Bridger
The history of Fort Bridger represents a microcosm of the development of the American West. Situated in an area initially inhabited by the Shoshone people, Fort Bridger was established during a transitional phase between the fur-trade era and the period of western migration. The fort became one of the most important supply points along the nation’s western trail network. Later, the post served as bastion of civilization as of a number of western military posts. Soldiers at the fort protected not only the lives and property of its local citizenry but also the emerging transportation and communication advancements of a nation. Following the Army’s departure, a small settlement emerged as Fort Bridger, using buildings and materials from the old military garrison. Today, the fort and town remain active, in part as a respite for travelers just as it had been more than 150 years ago.
ISBN – 978-1-4671-3145-2
127 Pages
Softback
6 1/2″ x 9 1/4″
Arcadia Publishing, 2014
Images of America – Fort Yellowstone
On August 17, 1886, Capt. Moses Harris and the troops of Company M rode into Yellowstone to take over guardianship of America’s first national park. Receiving orders thereupon that the company was staying indefinitely, Captain Harris ordered the construction of Camp Sheridan. Seeing no end in sight for this “temporary” duty, the US War Department established Fort Yellowstone in 1891. For 32 Years, ceremonial splendor of the US Army filled this era of Yellowstone with booming cannons at sunrise and sunset, crackling rifle-range practices, flashing saber drills, exacting military maneuvers, and dashing dress parades led by the regimental band. With the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, the Army began a two-year administrative transitioned and formally abandoned Fort Yellowstone in October 1918.
ISBN – 978-0-7385-9314-2
128 Pages
Softback
6 1/2″ x 9 1/4″
Arcadia Publishing, 2012
Images of America – Jackson Hole
The broad valley of Jackson Hole and the ridges and slopes around what would become Jackson, Wyoming, had long been a crossroads to the region’s Indigenous people when fur trappers arrived in early decades of the 19th century and made Jackson Hole a lynchpin of their continental commerce. Many came and went, but some stayed, with a settlement taking form near the banks of Flat Creek at the base of East Gros Ventre Butte. Small-scale cattle ranching formed the first economic base of this frontier town, but before long, the valley’s incomparable elk herds drew market hunters, game wardens, and hunting guides. Jackson became a ski town with turn-of-the-20th-century cross-country skiing, the 1920s and 1930s development of Mount Snow King, and the 1960s opening of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. These years saw the development of an authentic Western skiing culture and demonstrated Jackson’s pivot from sleepy frontier town to major logistical hub for recreational visitors. Two beloved national parks just to the north added to the flow of visitors as postwar prosperity funded new road trips and mountain vacations.
ISBN – 978-1-4671-6097-1
127 Pages
Softback
6 1/2″ x 9 1/4″
Arcadia Publishing, 2024
Images of America – Pinedale
John F. Patterson founded Pinedale in 1904 after proposing the establishment of a town along Pine Creek in western Wyoming. Patterson offered to build and stock a general store if local ranchers Charles Petersen and Robert Graham would donate five acres each for the site. Petersen and Graham agreed to this plan, a surveyor was hired, and Pinedale — named after the post office on Petersen’s ranch — was officially established. Free town lots were offered to early settlers, and Pinedale was incorporated in 1912, becoming the farthest incorporated town from a railroad, and later from a major highway, in the country. The community survived in fierce isolation, and the townspeople originally made their living supplying the ranchers, outfitters, and tie hacks. Ranching and tourism helped sustain Pinedale from the beginning, and in the 1900s, the community underwent a fundamental change with the introduction of natural-gas mining in the area. Pinedale residents continue to live and thrive on this harsh but beautiful land.
Historian Ann Chambers Noble has researched and written extensively about Pinedale and the surrounding areas. Many of the photographs in this book were drawn from the Sublette County Historical Society collection. Additional images came from the family collections of longtime Pinedale residents and have not been published until now.
ISBN: 978-0-7385-5883-7
127 Pages
Softback
6 1/2″ x 9″
Arcadia Publishing, 2008
Sublette County, Wyoming
Sublette County encompasses much of the upper Green River Valley, a stunningly beautiful area encased on three sides by rugged mountain ranges.
The county is named in honor of fur trapper and trader William Sublette, who attended several Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Rendezvous in the early 19th century. The short-lived fur trade era had a lasting impact when the mountain men, with Native American assistance, passed on the knowledge of the area’s geography, including migration routes used by the next group to travel to the area, the homesteaders. Permanent settlement started in the 1870s by stubborn, hardy settlers who maintained cattle and sheep herds despite the high altitude and harsh climate. Sublette County was Wyoming’s last county created when it was officially organized in 1923. The county’s economic base also included tourism and energy extraction. Supporting the small population over the vast landscape were only three incorporated towns, making post offices, trading posts, and schools scattered throughout the county important for the isolated communities.
Ann Chambers Noble has authored several award-winning histories of Sublette County in Arcadia’s Images of America series, including Pinedale and Big Piney and Marbleton. The photographs in this book are new to the series and are provided by the county’s museums and Sublette County family albums.
ISBN – 978-1-4671-6151-0
127 Pages
Softback
6 1/2″ x 9 1/4″
Arcadia Publishing, 2024
Images of America – Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park is one of the earth’s most famous places. Established in 1872 as the world’s first national park, it has preserved remarkable natural wonders like Old Faithful Geyser and cultural icons such as Old Faithful Inn. For centuries, it was home to the Shoshone, Crow, Bannock, Blackfeet, and other Indian tribes, but these groups were banished in the 1870’s by park promoters who feared that tourists would not visit if American Indians lived there. Almost immediately after its establishment, Yellowstone became the primary destination for tourist travel to the American West following the Civil War. By 1900, it was a vast tourist success, and today it is both a world biosphere preserve and a world heritage site.
ISBN – 978-0-7385-4849-4
128 Pages
Softback
6 1/2″ x 9 1/4″
Arcadia Publishing, 2008
In the Image of A.J. Miller
Alfred J. Miller is the only artist known to have painted and sketched the daily happenings of the Rocky Mountain trapper in the year of 1837. To the students of the western fur trade, especially those interested in the beaver hunters of the period 1820-40, Miller’s sketches provide a rare glimpse into the daily happenings, dress, equipment and mode of travel of the famed “mountain men”.
With this book Alfred J. Miller’s most clear and complete drawings and paintings are taken into consideration to reproduce in photographs the clothing and equipment items that they show. In a sense it is a sketchbook, but using photography. A good clear photograph can tell a more complete story compared to a small drawing or sketch.
ISBN: 0-9722308-3-1
72 Pages
Softback
8 1/4″ x 10 3/4″
Historical Enterprises, 2005
Indian Scout Craft and Lore
The Life of the Indian boy–living close to nature, learning the ways of the wild animals, playing games and learning stories that develop the strength of body and spirit—has long been noted for its ability to develop character. In this book, a full-blooded Sioux Indian raised as a young warrior in the 1870’s and 80’s, describes that like–the lessons he learned, games he played, and feelings about life that he developed as he worked to become a young Indian scout.
Among the many areas of craft and lore described are the physical training of young boys, making friends with the wild animals, learning the language of footprints, hunting with slingshot and bow and arrow, trapping and fishing, making canoes, setting up camp, building wigwams, and other shelters, making fire without matches and cooking without pots, blazing a trail, using Indian signals, gesture language and picture writing, reading the signs of nature, and story telling, as well as information on winter and summer sports of the Indian boys, names and ceremonies of Indian boys and Indian girls, and the etiquette of the wigwam. Throughout, not only the practices but the reasons and feelings behind them are described. 27 illustrations show many of the crafts and signs described.
ISBN: 978-0-486-22995-9
190 Pages
Softback
5 3/8″ x 8″
Dover Publications, 1974
Indian Sign Language
Plains Indians from different tribes speaking different languages were nevertheless able to communicate facts and feelings of considerable complexity when they met. They used a language composed of gestures made almost entirely with the hands and fingers, probably the most highly developed gesture language to be found in any part of the world.
With this book, you will find it simple to use this language, which the author learned in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, principally from Sioux Indians in Wyoming. Drawings and short descriptions make clear the proper positions and motions of the hands to convey the meaning of over 870 alphabetically arranged common words – hungry, camp, evening, angry, fire, laugh, owl, cat, many times, brave, cold, heart, rain, spotted, together, river, etc. The words are then used in sample sentences. There are also brief sections on the pictography and ideography of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes, and on smoke signals.
ISBN: 978-0-486-22029-1
108 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Dover Publications, 1969
Indian Tribes of North America – Coloring Book
This book contains 38 carefully researched, accurately drawn illustrations of the aboriginal inhabitants of North America, ranging from the Seminole of Florida to the Chilkat of Alaska. Other tribes represented include the Pequot, Mohawk, Iroquois, Seneca, Crow, Cree, Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Huron and many more.
Chiefs, warriors, squaws and children are shown in authentic costume among tepees, pueblos and other traditional dwellings; many are depicted hunting, making war, dancing and cooking. Detailed renderings recreate their weapons (knives, clubs, axes, bows and arrows, etc.), basketry, masks, canoes and sleds.
ISBN: 978-0-486-26303-8
46 Pages
Softback
8 1/4″ x 10 3/4″
Dover Publications, 1990
Indian Why Stories
The Native American was a true lover of nature and closer observer of the sights and sounds about him. He delighted in composing tales that offered imaginative explanations for everything — from simple stories about creation to fanciful accounts of how animals acquired certain physical characteristics.
This entertaining collection of 22 stories, compiled nearly a century ago by a devotee of Indian lore who considered them “well-worth saving,” recounts many of the legends told to him by members of the Blackfeet, Chippewa and Cree tribes.
ISBN: 978-0-486-28800-0
85 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ 8 1/2″
Dover Publications, 1995
It Happened in Wyoming – Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Best known for its open spaces and outlaw ways, Wyoming is also the source of many strange and unusual tales, like that of Dr. John E. Osborne, the third governor of Wyoming who took the oath of office wearing shoes made of a man’s skin. It Happened in Wyoming goes behind the scenes to tell this story and many more, in short episodes that reveal the intriguing people and events that have shaped the Equality State.
ISBN – 978-0-7627-7211-7
182 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Morris Book Publishing, 2013
Jedediah Smith and His Monuments
Bicentennial Edition
Celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jedediah Smith.
Look at monuments for Jedediah Smith over eight different states. California, Kansas, Nevada, New York, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Monuments for him went from thirty-one to sixty-six, as earlier reported in the 1984 edition of the same book.
The book will tell you the location of it (general and specific), if it is accessible, how it is constructed, wording it may have and a picture of the monument itself. This can be found for each of the sixty-six monuments.
ISBN – 0-9612094-1-0
80 Pages
Softback
8 1/2″ x 11″
The Jedediah Smith Society, 1999
Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
In the exploration of the American West, Jedediah Strong Smith is overshadowed only by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. During his eight years in the West Jedidiah Smith made the effective discovery of South Pass; he was the first man to reach California overland from the American frontier, the first to cross the Sierra Nevada, the first to travel the length and width of the Great Basin, the first to reach Oregon by a journey up the California coast. He saw more of the West than any man of his time, and was familiar with it from the Missouri River to the Pacific, from Mexico to Canada.
ISBN: 978-0-8032-5138-0
458 Pages
Softback
5 1/8″ x 8″
University of Nebraska Press, 1964
Jedediah Smith, No Ordinary Man
Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. The first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, Smith roamed through more of the West than anyone of his era, and his adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. In this biography, Barton H. Barbour includes recently discovered documents and sifts fact from legend to offer new insights on the life and adventures of this dynamic frontiersman.
Young Jedediah Smith was influenced by notable men who were his family’s neighbors, including a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. At twenty-three, hard times and wanderlust set him on the road west. Barbour delves into Smith’s journals and correspondence to offer compelling insights into the trader’s itineraries, personality, and passion for geographic discovery.
ISBN: 978-0-8061-4196-1
290 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
University of Oklahoma Press, 2009
