HISTORY
Dudley Gardner and his team of archaeologists are digging up history in downtown Rock Springs. A few feet beneath the
SWEETWATER COUNTY — Frontier-era cameramen once roamed the west in special railroad cars configured as traveling studios called “photo cars.”
Pete Parker was just a boy growing up in Rock Springs when his father shared his first Butch Cassidy tale
GREEN RIVER — The Sweetwater County Historical Museum’s Vintage Firearms Research Program recently examined a military rifle that was the
LARAMIE — Wonder what happened in Wyoming last year? Visit the new “COVID-19 in Wyoming” website to catch a glimpse of
GREEN RIVER — A French television crew was in Rock Springs and Green River this week shooting a feature about Sweetwater
GREEN RIVER — In the spring of 1869, John Wesley Powell launched his first epic expedition to explore the Green
GREEN RIVER — Students from the Granger School got a special guided tour of the Sweetwater County Historical Museum on
Celebrate Historic Preservation Month in Downtown Rock Springs ROCK SPRINGS — May is National Historic Preservation Month and the community
The summer of 1891 in Rock Springs witnessed one of the most explosive and foolish tragedies that has been recorded.
ROCK SPRINGS — Western Wyoming Community College invites the community to listen to the “White Lies” podcast, and join hosts
GREEN RIVER — The Sweetwater County Historical Museum is researching Green River’s first cemetery, which was established in 1862 not far
GREEN RIVER — A budding historian brought a century-old handgun to the Sweetwater County Historical Museum for examination this week.
GREEN RIVER — The Sweetwater County Historical Museum and the Sweetwater County Quilt Guild have partnered up once again for
Rock Springs in the 1960s was one of many stops along the way for the Harlem Globetrotters, an exhibition basketball
GREEN RIVER — Author and biographer Bill Betenson paid a visit to the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River
