Meeteetse Stories

Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4! In this episode, we look into the life and myths surrounding Victor Arland and the infamous town of Arland.

To learn more about Victor Arland, read this blog post on the Meeteetse Museums’ website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/wine-honey-and-saloons-victor-arland-in-the-bighorn-basin/

To learn more about Arland’s business partner, John Franklin Corbett, read this blog post: htt...

Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4! In this episode, we dive into the mysterious past of former Meeteetse resident Peter Perrin and his connection to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

For more on Peter Perrin, listen to Season 1 of “Meeteetse Stories” or check out this blog post on the Meeteetse Museums website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/meeteetses-civil-war-veterans/

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Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4! In this episode, we are joined by Brain Beauvais with the Park County Archives to learn more about Meeteetse’s connection to early conservation in the United States. The episode focuses on the lives of A.A. Anderson and William Pickett.

To learn more about William Pickett’s life, watch this presentation by Brain Beauvais given to the Meeteetse Museums: https://youtu.be/G_A2jjQEu...

Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4! In this episode, we learn about the lives of George and Carrie Hurlbut who lived on the Wood River. George was Park County’s first county surveyor and Carrie taught at numerous area schools including Otto, Fenton, and Sunshine. For more information on Carrie Hurlbut and her goats, watch this oral history on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/75OvaSGIVvc

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In this episode, we'll explore the myth that women were not in business before the mid- to late-20th century. Meeteetse's own Sylvia Mikkelson and Mary Corbett help us tell this story locally while we contextualize it through interviews with Drs. Susan Ingalls Lewis and Susan Yohn. Dr. Susan Ingalls Lewis is a Professor Emerita in History at State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz and author of Unexceptional Women and Girls t...

Explore the mystery of Meeteetse's Iron Creek Foundry which is said to have manufactured bricks for the First National Bank (now the Bank Museum) and likely other buildings in town including the Weller or Overland Hotel. We learn from Rachel Whitlow and James Mauch about brick making and the geological processes that made Iron Creek a good spot to make brick and explore historical newspapers in the search for Meeteetse's brickmaker...

This season of "Meeteetse Stories" explores a sampling of the trades and industries of early Meeteetse. The blacksmith shop was the first building in Meeteetse so it seems fitting to kick this season off with learning about blacksmithing! We'll speak to Alex Pole and Ken Schwarz to learn about blacksmithing and Kelsey Kehoe to learn about the geology of coal in the area. Alex Pole is the owner of The Forge and author of "Blacksmith...

Thank you for listening to this season of "Meeteetse Stories"! If you would like to see more podcast content or help fund the Bison of the Bighorn Basin project, please consider donating to the Meeteetse Museums through our website.

Mentioned in this Episode

Directory to bison bone terms, courtesy of GRSLE ...

Dr. Jeff Martin’s work with Grand Canyon/Colorado Plateau bison

"Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bison of the Colorado Plateau" by Jeff M. Martin, Rachel A. Short, and Jim I. Mead

"Reevaluation of Bison Remains from the Greater Grand Canyon Region and the Colorado Plateau: Native or Non-Native?" by Jef...