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Medicine Wheel
Situated atop Medicine Mountain at an elevation of 9,642 feet in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, the Medicine Wheel attracts thousands of visitors each year. The wheel itself measures nearly 80 feet in...
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White Mountain Petroglyphs
Hundreds of carved figures dot the sandstone cliffs at the White Mountain Petroglyphs site in Wyoming’s Red Desert north of Rock Springs. Etched into the sandstone bedrock of the Ecocene Bridger...
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The Vore Buffalo Jump
Five hundred years ago, American Indian tribes began driving bison into a natural sinkhole bordering the northern Great Plains and the Black Hills. This perfect trap allowed the people to acquire large...
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Finley Bison Kill Site
The Finley Site, located near Eden in Sweetwater County, Wyo., was used by American Indians to trap and kill bison. This place has been and continues to be important for archaeologists because it...
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The Pedro Mountain Mummy
A celebrity might have a brief career, or be famous for decades, even living on in public memory after death. But has an infant ever achieved this status?The Pedro Mountain Mummy was discovered in June...
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Pictures on Rock: What Pictographs and Petroglyphs Say about the People Who...
The earliest people appear to have come to Wyoming from Asia, about 11,000 years ago. For thousands of years, they roamed the plains hunting big game on foot. Some of the animals were enormous—mammoths...
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Trade Among Tribes: Commerce on the Plains before Europeans Arrived
In the spring of 1934, an aging cowboy and stockman wrote some recollections to the editor of the Lusk Free Lance, a newspaper then published in Niobrara County in eastern Wyoming. In his letter,...
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Alpine Lives of Ancient People: High-mountain Archeology in Wyoming
Published: April 28, 2018In recent years, melting ice and mountain fires have revealed ancient human presence at elevations above 8,000 feet in northwestern Wyoming. Findings of archaeologists over the...
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The Mountain Shoshone
Published: May 9, 2018Recent discoveries show ancient peoples lived in the mountains of what’s now northwest Wyoming, probably in significant numbers. Some or many of these people were most likely...
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Before Wyoming: American Indian Geography and Trails
Published: July 30, 2019“The Crow country is exactly in the right place,” Crow Chief Arapooish told U.S. Army officer Robert Campbell in the 1830s. “It has snowy mountains and sunny plains; all kinds...
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