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To all pioneer who passed this way to win and hold the west

To all pioneer who passed this way to win and hold the west. Route of Sublette cut-off from Big Sandy to Bear River. Traversed after 1843 by emigrants to Oregon and California. [googlemaps…

The Naming of a Lake

On the edge of this magnificent sheet of water, from 1833 to 1844, Captain William Drummond Stewart of Scotland, camped many times with Jim Bridger and other Mountain Men and the Indians. In 1837 his artist, Alfred Jacob Miller, painted the first pictures of this area. On Stewart’s last trip in 1844, eight men in a rubber boat, first boat on the lake, honored their leader by christening these…

If Gene Bryson can't be a cowboy lawman, well then, he doesn't want to be a lawman at all.

[New Sublette County Sheriff Stephen] Haskell decided the Western look no longer belonged on his officers. He decided on new uniforms: black trousers, a tan shirt, black boots and a black ball cap. And you won’t see Gene Bryson wearing any of it. 

Bryson wore a brown cowboy hat, brown cowboy boots, summertime leather vest or wintertime wool vest. He retired on Friday after 28 years with the Sublette County Sherriff’s Department, 40 years total in law enforcement.

“That’s kind of the reason why I retired,” Bryson said. “I am not going to change. I’ve been here for 40-odd years in the Sheriff’s Office, and I’m not going to go out and buy combat boots and throw my vest and hat away and say, ‘This is the new me.’ That’s not going to work.”

This Site is a crossing of the Lander Cut-off – the northern fork of the Oregon Trail, following a route of the fur traders. It was suggested as an emigrant road by Mountain Man John Hockaday in order to avoid alkali plains of the desert, shorten the trip to the Pacific by five days and provide more water, grass and wood. In 1857 it was improved as a wagon road by the Government under the…