By Julie Edholm
Title: Oral Histories from Worland, WY and Washakie County
Extent: 156.0 Folders
Arrangement: Names are in alphabetical order by last name. The date next to the name is the date the interview was conducted.
Volunteers associated with the Washakie Museum conducted oral history interviews with Worland residents in the 1970s and 80s who had resided in Washakie County since their youth. These were later transcribed and entered into a database and are now available electronically.
The Washakie Museum is located in Worland Wyoming. It houses artifacts, archival materials, and books that focus on the early history of the Big Horn Basin and it's people as well as it's prehistoric history.
For more information or to obtain a copy of an oral history please contact the curator at the Washakie Museum & Cultural Center at 307-347-4102 or visit us at https://www.washakiemuseum.org/
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Letter to Lyle and Esther Blincow
Hand written family tree. The Wilds of Wyoming by Grace Ainsworth.
Subjects: First organ in the Big Horn Basin, First sewing machine in the Big Horn Basin, Governor Richard's daughter's murder, Seventh Day Adventists, Spring Creek Raid.
People: Dayton Albee, Lucy Ann Bishop, Edith Mae Brink, Herb Brink, Bull's, Cogdill's, Clayton Cruise, Governor Richards, Neil Greet, George McClellan, Luke Wheeler, Dan Wilson.
Places: Big Trails, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Owl Creek Mountains.
Camp Worland booklet, Newsaper articles, The Romance of a Pearl.
Subjects: 1907 Worland fire, Creation of Washakie County, Honeymoon pranks, Lists of firsts in Worland, Washakie Days, Worland's early history.
People: Eddie Conant, H.T. Emmett, Ludlow, C.F. Robertson (1st mayor of Worland), Frank Thomas, Wamhoff.
Places: Camp Worland, Fifteen Mile Creek, Hanover Canal.
Businesses: Emmer Products Company, The Worland Grit (newspaper).
Clubs/Organizations: Worland Women's Club.
Wyoming wildlife article, On the Beaverline with Golden Allred, a Ten Sleep trapper. Newspaper articles.
Subjects: Entertainment, Dancing, Gardening problems-deer, Medical care, Mountain lions, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Severe weather, Trapping.
People: Breedon's, Brubaker's, Dr. Basil, Harold's, Shriver's, Tiekjo Thaxton.
Teachers: Doma Thaxton, Florence Harvard, Nellie Carr, Florence Shriver.
Places: Badlands, Kirby Creek, Nowood River, Old Maid's Gulch, Otter Creek, Otter Creek Canyon, Otter Creek Grazing Association, Otter Creek School, Princess Dance Hall, Spring Creek, Ten Sleep, Ten Sleep Mercantile, Valley Motel, Yellowtail Dam.
Biography
Subjects: Diptheria, Teacher's salaries, Teaching school, Worland School District.
People: Dr. John Roberts.
Places: Bain School, Eastside Elementary, Gebo, Lander, Northside School, Spring Creek School, Ten Sleep, Westside Elementary, Wind River Indian Reservation.
Businesses: Western Motors.
Clubs/Organizations: Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts.
Copies of legal documents, contracts, and licenses-certificate of naturalization, legal name change, hunting and fishing license, boxing contract, bill of sale. Newspaper articles.
Subjects: Boxing, Cabin building, Greek food, Head Start program, War bond effort.
People: Adam Schneider (boxer), Alex Schneider (boxer).
Places: Cheyenne, Greece, Greek Orthodox Church, John Brown's Pool Hall, Mileski Buildilng, Princess Dance Hall, Salt Lake City, Seghetti Skating RInk, Stockman's Cafe/Bar, Ten Sleep, Worland Cafe.
Businesses: Argeris Shoes.
Newspaper article and a biography by Marcella Chamberlin
Place names: Grass Creek, Nowood River, Ten Sleep, Ten Sleep Mercantile.
Obituary and newspaper articles
Subjects: Highway Patrol, World War II.
People: Leland Gossett, Leo Rhodes.
Places: Basin, Kane, Manderson, Nowood River, Rairden, Ruble School, Thermopolis, Worland.
Clubs/Organizations: B & PW (Business & Professional Women)
Places: Boy's Reform School, Emmett Building.
Businesses: Burlington Railroad
Biography
Subjects: German POW Camp, World War II.
Places: China, Germany, Washington, Wisconsin, Zion's Lutheran Church.
Newspaper articles, biography
Subjects: 1964 Fire-Worland Machine Co., Car dealerships, Carey Act, Gasoline Service Station, Homesteading, Sheep feeding, Sugar beets, Ten Sleep and No Rest, Ten Sleep Raid, Washakie County formation, Washakie Days.
People: Allemand, Fred Bragg, Herb Brink, Dr. Foster (1st doctor), Joe Emge, Roy Glenn, Governor Carey, Governor Emerson, Leonard Haynes, Healy, McClellan, John Voss, Wonstenberg.
Places: Basin, Big Horn Canal, Buffalo Basin, Deep Creek Ranch, Durkee School House, Fritz Ditch, Fort Washakie, Grass Creek, Hyattville, Lost Cabin, Nebraska, Nowood River, Rairden Bridge, Schuster Flats, Ten Sleep, Wostenberg School.
Businesses: Brick Factory, Durkee School District, Emer Mill, Farmers Lumber Yard, Holly Sugar Company, International Harvester Company, Jordan Mill, Mercantile Store, Noble and Bragg Outfit, Nowood Store, Rupp Store, Worland Machine Co., Worland Cafe, Worland Power Plant.
Clubs/Organizations: Worland Alfalfa Club
Subjects: 1970 drought, Farming, Irrigation ditches, Spring Creek Raid, Sugar beets, Town-moving across ice, World War I.
Places: 15-mile Ranch, Big Horn Canal.
Businesses: Hake Hardware
Play programs-Bunch of Fun and Why Smith Left Home. Biographyof the life of Aara J. Knisely.
Subjects: Corn Show Follies, Dances, High School.
People: Governor Nellie Ross, Lady Bird Johnson.
Teachers: Mr. Ferry, Mrs. Ferry, Mis Idse, Miss McClymont, Miss Nay, Miss Wilson, Mrs. Pearl Wilson.
Places: Antler Ranch (TA Ranch), Kane, Lovell, Meeteetse.
Businesses: Big Horn Chevrolet, Carl Dir's Sporting Goods Store, Chevy Garage, Farmers Lumber Yard, Great Western Sugar Co., Stockgrowers Bank, The Outdoorsman, Washakie Trading Co.
Clubs/Organizations: 4-H, Junior Woman's Club, Senior Woman's Club.
Genealogy, biograpy of Harry LaRue Bonine, newspaper articles.
Subjects: Boxing, Clothing, Dancing, Garages, Holly Farms, Hospital, Movie theater, Pool halls, Prohibition, Prostitution, School bus, Shops on Main street, Washakie Days.
People: John Brown
Businesses: Bess Dailey's Gift Shop, Brookins, Chevrolet Garage, Dorman Hotel, Farmer's Lumberyard, Goodmont Motors, Harness Shop, Holly Sugar Co., Ida's Place, Kerby Theater, Louie's Quick Lunch, Marshall Wells, Read Drug Store, Rupp's, Russell's Hardware, Schultz's Drug Store, Style Shop, The Outdoorsman, The Smart Shop, Washakie Trading Co., Wild Bear Garage, Worland Garage.
Notes from the first Colter club meeting, newspaper articles.
Subjects: Canals, Farming, Home cures, Irrigation, The Depression, Threshing, Water rights.
People: Luther Albertson, Karl & Carrie Ley.
Places: Belle Fourche River, Big Horn Canal, Bluff Canal, Boysen Reservoir, Hanover Canal, Lower Hanover Canal.
Businesses: Holly Sugar, Lincoln Land Company, Petters & Company, Wyoming Sugar Company.
Clubs/Organizations: Colter Club.
Big Horn Canal Association Annual Report Oct. 31, 1944-October 31, 1945, newspaper articles, business card, letters.
Subjects: Alfalfa, Carey Act, Community colleges, He Wore a Stetson by Vera Saban, Johnson County Way, Law practice, Lawyer-New York, Librarian, Masons, Mining Claims, Politics, Sheep, Ten Sleep Raid.
People: Babbitts, Gilbert Kennedy, Carl & Carrie Lay (Lei), Bear George McClellan, Judge Metz, Teddy Roosevelt, Myron Tolman, R.B. West.
Places: Basin, Big Horn Canal, Brome Draw, Dead Indian Hill-Cody, Hidden Dome, Little Leigh Creek, Nowood, Rairden, Ten Sleep, Upper Ten Sleep Meadows.
Businesses: Alfalfa Farms Co., Big Horn Canal Assoc., Big Horn Irrigation Co, Bragg & Noble Outfit, McKinney Oil & Drilling Co., Ohio Oil Co./Marathon, Peters Milling Co., Texaco Bulk Plant, Worland Garage.
Story, postcard, photos, family histories, biograpy of Edward Davis.
Subjects: Civil War, Mining, Spring Creek Raid, Square dancing, Trucking.
People: Johnny Buckmaster, Paul Frison, Bob Goodrich, Bounce Hellmer, Archie Jacobs, Judge Merz, Albert Wortham.
Places: Big Trails, Brown Ranch, Gebo, Hammer Creek, Hyattville, McClellan Ranch, Otter Creek, Renner Ranch/Coon Creek, Smth Ranch, Yellowstone.
Clubs/Organizations: Circle 8, Jaycees, Square Dance Club.
Colter Club recorded history, poem, biography/play
Subjects: Sheep herder, Sheep wagon.
Clubs/Organizations: Colter Club
Newspaper articles
Subjects: Bees
People: Beatle's
Businesses: Bryant Honey, Sioux Bee Honey, Thrift Shop.
Clubs/Organizations: Coconut Dancing Club, Episcopal Church.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biography, Days of Remembrance, photos, correspondence.
Subjects: Schools, Teaching
Subjects: Corn, Show, Flu Epidemic, Homesteading, Plane crash, Rocky Mountain Tick Fever, Sheep herding, Sheep wagon.
People: Mr. Cutter, H.T. Emmett, Mrs. Ferry, Governor Emerson, Dr. Dana Carter, Dr. Gage, Dr. Gray, Dr. Jewel.
Teachers: Pauline Haven, Irene Knowles.
Places: Bear Creek, Box Elder Creek, Box Elder Ranch, Lake Helen, Nowood, Orchard Ranch, Trout Creek.
Businesses: Big Trails School House, Elk Theater, Emmett School, Fred Bragg Outfit, Ten Sleep School, Washakie Trading Co., Worland High School.
Clubs/Organizations: State Corn Convention, Ten Sleep School Board, Wyoming School Board Association.
Subjects: Boxing, Coal, Ku Klux Klan, Prostitution.
People: John (John Brown) Argeris
Places: Gebo, Kirby.
Businesses: Sinclair Service Station
Record of family births
Subjects: Flu Epidemic, Justice of the Peace
People: Governor Richards, George McClellan.
Teachers: Mrs. Benson, Lillian Grout Egbert, Mazie Harbison Egbert, France Lacky.
Places: Lost Cabin, Mahogany Butte Ranch, Nowood.
Businesses: Big Trails School, Red Bank Ranch, Red Bank Telephone Co., Noble & Bragg Outfit, Washakie Trading Co., Worland Mercantile Co.
Newspaper articles
Subjects: First white woman in the Basin, Optometrist, Pilot, Plane crash, Seventh Day Adventist, Teachers.
People: Frank, Marion & Ray Ainsworth, Codgills, Pop Emmett, Tim Paris, Clarence Waln, Martah James Bull Waln, Frank Watson.
Places: Garland
Businesses: Big Trails, Emmett School, Greet School, Worland Airport.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biography of Edward Davis by Margaret Brown Davis
Newspaper articles
Subjects: Cattle-mountain grazing, Dances, Depression, Taylor Grazing Act, Ten Sleep Raid, Well drilling.
People: Dixon, Paul Frison, Nysley's, Leo Rhodes, Hank Smith, Tolman's.
Places: Canyon Creek, Mann Schoolhouse, Nowood, Owl Creek, Rice Ranch.
Businesses: Davis Livestock Corp., Gebo Mine, Ten Sleep School.
Clubs/Organizations: Ten Sleep Soil Conservation District
Biography
Subjects: Car dealerships/garages, CCC, Emer Mill, Fire department, Holly Sugar Company, House, Prohibition, Plumber, Water works, World War II.
People: Doc Gray
Places: Emmett School
Subjects: Dancing, Flu Epidemic, Grocery Stores, Prohibition.
People: Hank's
Businesses: Denton's, Hank's Department Store
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biograpy and family tree
Biography
People: George Smith
Places: Bonneville, Buffalo Creek, Copper Mountain, Shoshoni, Warren School
Newspaper articles, Program of art exhibition, Resumes of artwork, Invitation to art reception, Tribute to Elva.
Subjects: Art, Church camp, Theater.
Places: Meadowlark Lake
Businesses: Holly Sugar
Clubs/Organizations: Friends of the Washakie County Museum, Helens Fellowship, Newcomer's Club, Worland Artists, Worland Community Players, Worland Methodist Church, Worland Soroptimist Club, Wyoming Artists Association.
Subjects: Dances, Rollerskating.
People: Pulliam
Places: Emmett School
Businesses: Pulliam Company, Pure Oil, Washakie Abstract Co.
Biography of Mary Ettie Carrier Wortham, The Wilbur (Webb) Worthams of Worland Wyoming.
Subjects: Card playing, Depression, Normal Training.
People: Dr. Gray, Dr. Groshart.
Places: Big Horn Canal, Bluff Ditch, Gooseberry, Hanover Canal, Lower Hanover Canal, Nieber School, Worland High School.
Businesses: First National Bank, Sinclair Station, St. Alban's Epsicopal Thrift Shop, Washakie Abstract Co., WPA
Clubs/Organizations: American Legion Auxiliary, B & PW, Bedoura Nile Club, DOES, POW WOW, St. Alban's Episcopal Church.
Subjects: France, Sheep, Ten Sleep Raid.
People: Frank Bower, Dr. Gage, Dr. Gray, Father Enders.
Places: Durkee, Nowood.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Autobiography
Biography
People: Neiber's
Places: Bridger Trail, Gooseberry, Hanover Dam, Neiber, South Flat.
Subjects: Curing meat, Hally's Comet, Prospecting, Typhoid.
Places: Hanover Canal, Rairden.
Clubs/Organizations: Methodist Church, Priscilla Circle, South Flat Club, War Mothers.
Poem, Obituary, origin of Crazy Woman Creek, bibliograpy
Subjects: Band/Orchestra, Dances, Wolves.
Places: Birdseye Pass, Broken Back, Lost Cabin, Nowood, Sand Creek Divide, Shell Creek, Ten Sleep Canyon, Ten Sleep School.
Businesses: Emory Hotel, Flagstaff Hotel, Gordon & Frison Sheep Co., Ten Sleep Mercantile.
Clubs/Organizations: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
Subjects: Fire fighting, High school girls basketball, Hospitals, Machine shop fire, Service station, School buses, Sugar beets, Sugar Factory, Wild Bear Garage Fire.
People: Dr. Anderson, Dr. Gray.
Places: Emmett School, Gebo.
Businesses: Junctions Service, Wild Bear Garage, Worland Machine Co., Wyoming Sugar Co.
Clubs/Organizations: Chamber of Commerce
Newspaper articles
Subjects: Doctors, Hospital.
People: Dr. Anderson, Dr. Engleman, Dr. Gray, Dr. Groshart.
Clubs/Organizations: Hospital Auxiliary
Biography
Subjects: Box car living, Railroad.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biographical information
Postcard and letters, newspaper article
Subjects: Community theater, Hell and High Water, Polygamy, Realtors.
People: Margaret Chastain, Lucky Dorman, Pop Emmett, Dad Worland.
Businesses: Best Western Settler's Inn, Geis Trucking, Hotel Washakie, Worland Grit.
Clubs/Organizations: Chamber of Commerce, Community Players, Country Club, Girl Scouts, Kiwanis, St. Alban's Church, Wyoming Travel Commission.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Newspaper articles, story of the Hole-in-the-Wall Country, "The Woman in Blue"
Autobiography
Subjects: Beet picking, Carnival, Christmas, Dancing, School days.
Diary written by M.J. Goodwin
Subjects: Automobiles, Delco, The Depression.
People: Pop Emmett, Dr. Foster, Dr. Gray.
Places: Deer Haven, Emmett School, Lower Hanover Canal, Uupper Hanover Canal.
Businesses: Holly Sugar Factory, Washakie Joe's
Essay on the Gorst Family
Subjects: Delco, The Depression, German POW's, Japanese Internment Camps, Jones Costigan Bill, Ku Klux Klan, Politics, Prohibition, Prostitution, Sheep, Sring Creek Raid, Sugar beet growers, Turkeys, Washakie Days.
People: Barney Koontzwas, George Bear McClellan, Morris Sheesley, Henry Tully.
Places: Big Trails, Cottonwood Pass, Nowood Road, Red Bank Ranch.
Businesses: Clay Veal's Barbershop, Holly Sugar, Stockgrower's Bank, Washakie Trading Co.
Clubs/Organizations: East Side Club, Eastern Star Methodist Ladies Aid, Wyoming Farm Bureau.
Subjects: First white woman in the Basin
People: Hank Carstenson, Georgia Harold, Leithead's.
Places: Bader Schoolhouse, Hammer Creek, Lower Nowood, Mann Schoolhouse, Otter Creek, Otter Creek Schoolhouse.
Clubs/Organizations: Friendly Circle Club, Nowood Pond Club.
*Note* Georgia St. Clair, Abner's daughter, is the one being interviewed.
Newspaper articles, biography of Grandfather Gray, biography of Mercy Etta Pratt Gray, photo.
Subjects: Dancing, Flu Epidemic, Hospital, Medicine, The Depression.
People: Dr. Anderson.
Teachers: Miss Hummel, Ina Wessel.
Places: Museum
Clubs/Organizations: Eastern Star, Historical Society, Ladies Aid, Masonic Order, Rotary Club, Shrine, Worland Artists.
Biography
Places: Gooseberry
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biography
Correspondence
Subjects: Fire of 1906
People: Harry Bonine, Mr. Muirhead
Places: Wostenberg School
Obituary of Colonel Sam Wood, correspondence
Subjects: Cooking, First woman pilot in Wyoming, Home remedies, Sawmill.
People: Lec Welch, McQuarry.
Places: Big Horn Lodge, Deer Haven, Meadowlark Lake.
Businesses: Bureau of Public Roads, Forest Service.
Correspondence, photos
Subjects: Bars, Baseball, Insurance, Real Estate.
People: Frank Watson
Places: Nowater Creek
Businesses: Farmer's State Bank, First National Bank, Hake Agency, Shultz's Drug.
Clubs/Organizations: Junior League Baseball
History of Ina Wessel & C.H.Hampton family, C.H. Hampton family history, newspaper articles, photos.
Subjects: Appendix, Telephone, Washakie Days.
People: Dad Worland, Dr. Gage, Dr. Miller, Muirheads, Van Werts.
Businesses: Hampton & South, Stockgrower's Bank, Washakie Hotel, Wild Bear Garage.
Subjects: Blizzard, Housing, Hydrologist, Riverton Project, Road conditions, Samplers, Sediment.
People: Ray Bower, Dick Hake, Clare Roberts.
Places: Big Horn River, Boysen Dam, Five Mile Creek, Ocean Lake, Powder River Pass, Shell Creek Road.
Businesses: Bureau of Reclamation, USGS.
Clubs/Organizations: Boy Scouts of America
Biography
Places: Hanover Canal
Businesses: Washakie Hotel
Harvard family timeline, biographies of the following members: Sidney & Mary J. Harvard, Clarence & Florence Waln, Frank & Eliza Brown, Clyde and Florence Harvard.
Subjects: Indian raids
People: Bob Waln
Places: Badwater Creek, Mahogany Butte, Nowood, Spring Creek.
Newspaper articles, obitutary of Daniel S. Healy, surveys, memoriam of Sampson Healy, Healy family story, Grandpa's Sheep Trail by Brian Healy, Range Management, Excerpt from Catherine Howell Pemberton's history about Edith Healy.
Subjects: Banking, The Depression, Garbage, Household hired help, Quarantine, Radio, Saturday nights, Schools, Sheep.
People: Dave Dickie, Paul Frison, Muirheads.
Places: Carter Hotel, Edith Healy Little House, Emmett School, Girl Scout House, LU Ranch, Plaza Hotel, Red Desert.
Businesses: First National Bank, Healy Brothers, LU Sheep Co., Marquis Music Store, Ten Sleep Mercantile, Van's Food Market, Washakie Livestock Loan Co., Worland Machine Co.
Clubs/Organizations: Girl Scouts, Museum
Funeral program, obituary
Subjects: Cooking, Dance pavilion, The Depression, Emigrant train, Farming, Hair-pigtails/braids, Hospital, House building, Laundry, School games, Teaching school, Television, Typhoid Fever, World War I-rations, Women's Lib.
People: Dr. Anderson, Dr. Gray, Harry Voss.
Places: Coutler School, Lower Hanover Dam, South Flat School, Upper Hanover Canal, Watson Building.
Businesses: Cook Hotel
Clubs/Organizations: 4-H, Garden Club, South Flat Ladies Club.
Biography
Subjects: Circus/Carnival, School cook, Ice house, Water meter.
People: Wostenberg
Places: Northside School
Businesses: Babbit & Walters, John Wessel's Blacksmith Shop, Worland Creamery, Wyoming Pure Seed Co.
Clubs/Organizations: Women's Benefit Association
Biography of Aara J. Knisely, newspaper articles
Subjects: Corn Show Follies, Dances, High School.
People: Governor Nellie Ross, Lady Bird Johnson.
Teachers: Mr. Ferry, Mrs. Ferry, Miss Idse, Miss McClymont, Miss Nay, Miss Wilson, Mrs. Pearl Wilson.
Places: Antler Ranch (TA Ranch), Kane, Lovell, Meeeteetse.
Businesses: Big Horn Chevrolet, Carl Dir's Sporting Goods Store, Chevy Garage, Farmers Lumber Yard, Great Western Sugar Co., Stockgrowers Bank, The Outdoorsman, Washakie Trading Co.
Clubs/Organizations: 4-H, Junior Woman's Club, Senior Woman's Club.
Subjects: Bank moratorium, Beets, Cattle, Chevrolet/Ford, Cowboying, Farming, Interest rates, Sheep, Sugar beet campaign.
People: Rollin Bower, Vernon Bower, Lloyd Coleman, Groutman.
Names: Charlie Bain's place, Cody, Gebo, Grass Creek.
Businesses: Hughes Tool
Newspaper articles
Subjects: Butchering, Cattle business, Gardening, Haul water, Ice skating, Laundry, Meals, Paris Green-insecticide, Recreation, Street paving, Taylor Grazing Act 1934, Unions, Women's lib.
Places: Bonanza, Big Horn Canal, Bluff Canal, Colter School, Gebo, Lawson Canal.
Businesses: Dorman Hotel, REA.
Clubs/Organizations: Grace Lutheran, St. Luke's Lutheran Church.
Subjects: Drugs, Hospital, Medicine, Nurses.
People: Dr Anderson, Dr. Engleman.
Subjects: Ten Sleep Raid
People: Dr. Gage, Dr. Gray.
Places: Canyon Creek, Nowood.
Businesses: Institute
Clubs/Organizations: 4-H, Alter Guild, Cub Scouts, Extension Clubs, PTA, St. Alban's Episcopal Church
History by Helen Howell, Mrs. Ashby Howell Pioneer Worland Woman and Humorous Stories of her First Years in Wyoming as School Teacher and Lady Homesteader
Subjects: Cabins, Clubhouses, Cooking, Gas lamps, Ku Klux Klan, Outhouses, Prohibition, School pranks
People: E.Y. Booker, Bill Culbertson, Pop Emmett, Kelly, Westcott.
Places: Big Horn Canal, Black Cat-Manderson, Dad Worland's Dugout.
Businesses: Heidelberg Bar, Kelley's Bar
Subjects: Gasline, High school football, Oil, Original town site, Sugar factory, Sugar Tramp Ball.
Places: Hidden Dome
Businesses: Howells Stores Inc., Midwest Oil Co., Pure Oil Co., Worland Mercantile Co.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biography
Resume, newspaper article
Subjects: Acupuncture, Brands, Brucellosis, Disease diagnosis, Horses, Llamas, Teach seminars, Tuberculosis, Veterinarian, World War II.
People: Susie Smith, Henry Weber.
Businesses: Cattle sale barn
Club/Organizations: Girl Scout Camp, Wyoming Game & Fish, Wyoming Livestock Board, Wyoming State Veterinary Advisory Committee, Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory, Wyoming Veterinary Association.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biographical sketch
Subjects: Bankruptcy, Business fire, Credit reports, Drug store, Flu, Furniture, General contractor, Medicines, Plaing cards, Rationing, Washakie Days.
People: Bill Alrich, Ray Bower, Dr. Gray, Mr. Morgan (attorney), George Muirhead (banker), Helen SNyder, Lou Spratt, Delmar Street.
Places: Emmett School
Businesses: 1st National Bank, Credit Bureau, Rationing Board, Stockgrowers State Bank.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
A Pioneer Named Johnson
Newspaper articles
Subjects: 1906 moving of the town across the river, Beet factory, Building of bridges and railways, Highways, Ferry, Ice jams, Immigrants from Russia and Germany, School teachers, Ten Sleep Raid.
Places: 25 Mile Creek, Big Horn River, Bluff Canal, Bonanza, Boysen Dam, Germania/Emblem, Kirby.
Clubs/Organizations: Literary Society
Subjects: Dances, Downtown businesses, Drive-in theater, Theater.
People: Dr. Anderson, Dr. Gray, Joe Hampton.
Businesses: Elk Theater Lloyd's Drive In, Veile Furniture.
Newspaper articles
People: Alex Healy, Bill Pulliam.
Clubs/Organizations: Zions Lutheran Church
History of the Krei farm, autobiography of Evelyn Edwards Krei, life sketch with photo, newspaper articles
Subjects: Dancing, Farm life, Hired house girls, Pinochle, Quealy Award.
Places: Gebo
Businesses: Economy Dairy, Holly Sugar Co.
Clubs/Organizations: 4-H, Collopy Club, Methodist Church, Odd Fellows, Soil Conservation.
L.E. Laird family history, Florence Laird resume, newspaper articles, obituaries, biographies, photo
Subjects: Education, Episcopal Church, Farming, School.
People: Dr. Crowder, Dr. Gray, Ashby Howell, Dr. Reed, Frank Watson.
Places: Laird Farm
Businesses: Douglas Aircraft-California, Worland Mercantile.
Subjects: Farming, First car, Horses, One room school, Planes, School teaching, Telephone.
Places: Ten Sleep
Biography
Subjects: Prejudice, Sugar Beets.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Adam Lungren biography, life story of Elizabeth Deines Lungren, story of Anna Marie and Jacob Lungren.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Newspaper articles, obituary, Bear Stories by George B. McClellan
Newspaper articles, Oscar McClellan obituary and photo, story of finding Governor Richards daughter by Mary Rebideau Nicholson, Senator George "Bear George" McClellan's Bear Story
Subjects: Billy the Kid, Corps of Engineers, Cowboy, Murder/suicide, Ranch, Teachers, Wild Bunch, World War II.
People: "Bear George", Governor Richards daughter, Wayne Tulley.
Places: Big Trails School, Canyon Creek, Emmett building, NH Trail, Moneta.
Businesses: McClellan & McQueen
Newspaper articles
Subjects: Hospital, Medical clinic, Nurses.
People: Dr. Anderson, Dr. Avery, Dr. Engleman, Dr. Froyd, Dr. Gray, Dr. Groshart, Dr. Harmon, Dr. Horsley, Dr. McKeon, Dr. Misner.
I Remember When... by Ruth McKeon, 1915 Worland postcard.
Subjects: Camp tenders, Delco,The Depression, Lambing, REA, Sheep ranch, Sheep wagon.
Places: Boysen Dam, Hidden Dome, Lost Cabin, Rairden.
Businesses: Red Bank Telephone Co., Washakie Trading Co.
Lists of store owners in the 1930s, newspaper article, photo, Worland Businessman by Jeff McKibbon
Subjects: Airport, Businesses, Businessmen, Department store, Highway #16, "Jobbing", Newspaper.
People: Chris Christensen, W.A. Denton, Lucky Dorman, Ed Green, Forrest Larsen, Martin Martinson, Dan McDonald, Carl Merz, George Murihead, Louie Rorris, Earl Varney.
Places: Worland Airport
Businesses: Dorman Hotel, Golden Rule, Jon's IGA, Meadowlark Lodge, S.B.A. Board, Triangle Packing Co.
Clubs/Organizations: Alfalfa Club, Lion's Club.
George Wortham biography
Subjects: Farming, School bus, School teacher, Tornado.
Places: Gooseberry, Neiber.
Biographical information
Subjects: Flooding, Legends, Poverty, Prejudice, Segregation, Sugar beets.
Places: Spanish School, Watson Building.
Businesses: Rickers Pharmacy
Subjects: Boarding house, Corn shows, Ku Klux Klan, Parties, Radio, Sugar beets, Teaching.
People: Edith Healy, Frank Watson.
Businesses: Merz Bakery, The Institute, Washakie Trading Co., Worland Hardware.
Clubs/Organizations: AAUW, Delta Kappa Gamma, Presbyterian Church.
Subjects: Flu-1918, High School, Mexican nationals, Operettas, School choir, World War II.
People: Margaret Chastain, Mary Gayber, Mr. Watson.
Businesses: Edwards Motor Co., Farmers State Bank, Holly Sugar, Pacific Power, Worland Machine Co.
Clubs/Organizations: Job's Daughters
Subjects: School, Sugar Row.
People: Mr. Emmett
Places: Emmett School, Spanish School, Watson Building.
Subjects: CC Camp, Dances, Government bought animals, Moonshine, Mountain school.
Places: Big Trails, Nowood, Otter Creek, Red Bank, Spring Creek
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biography
Newspaper articles
Subjects: Church mission to Hawaii, Real estate
Clubs/Organizations: Friends of the Museum, Nights of Note, Washakie County Museum Board
Subjects: Baseball, Car mechanic, Church -- LDS, Flying, Model T's, Mountain cabin, Planes, School bus.
People: Skeeter Denton, Pop Emmett, Jim Geddes, Kelly McCloud, Myron Orter.
Places: Meadowlark Lake
Businesses: Big Horn Chevrolet, Denton Chevrolet, Holly Sugar, Washakie Trading Co.
Clubs/Organizations: Alfalfa Club, Commercial Club.
Nurses interviewed: Etna Feather, Elinor(Eleanor) Feraud, Charlene Lungren, Theresa McKamey, Thelma Waln, Margaret Hyatt, Bunny Haines, Bernie Johnson, Dorothy Rillihan.
Subjects: Delivering babies, Hospital.
People: Carl & Louise Hampton
Doctors: Bob Anderson, Lyle Anderson, Avery, Engleman, Farlien, Froyd, Graham, Gray, Groshart, Hine, Horsley, Johns, Jorgenson, McKeon, Porter, Watson, Whittemore.
Hospital workers: Alana Chapman, Emily Honeycutt, Mr. Rodamer, Florence Pickett, Lois Pickett, Laura Thomas, Wilma Thomas, Katie Tidemann.
Places: Veile Building
Businesses: John Merz's Bakery, Jon's IGA, The Wagon Wheel.
Subjects: 4-H, Basketball, Calves, Christmas tree, Church, Cooking, Country school, County Agent, Drought, Fairgrounds, Flour mill, Home economist, Homestead, Lumber camp, Quealy Award, Sawmill, Sheep camp cook, Sunday School, War work.
People: McNutts, Mrs. Minness, Mr. Shaw.
Places: Gooseberry
Businesses: Country Extension Office, Longview Sawmill Co.
Clubs/Organizations: Boy Scouts, Eastside Club, Energetic Club, Extension Club.
Subjects: Canals, Cattlemen, Cowboy life, Sheep wagon, Sheepmen, Sugar beets.
People: DaCd Worland
Places: Big Horn Canal, Hanover Canal, Owl Creek.
Businesses: J.L. Torrey Outfit, LU Sheep Outfit, Pitchfork Ranch.
Story-author unknown
Subjects: County commissioner, Hospital board, Library board, Quilting, School board.
People: Charles Welch, Charley Worland.
Places: Gebo, Meadowlark, Veile building.
Businesses: State Highway Department, Worland Garage.
Clubs/Organizations: 4-H, Cancer Society, Cocoanuts, Community Players, Dance Club, Eastern Star, Hospital Auxiliary, Job's Daughters, Junior Woman's Club, Lion's Club, Masons, PTA, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons).
Newspaper article, obituaries
Subjects: Corn show, Driving, Natural Gas, Prohibition.
People: Edith Healy
Places: Black Cat, Emory Building, Meadowlark, Nowood.
Businesses: Worland Mercantile
Newspaper articles, news release
Subjects: Jenkins murder
People: Butch Cassidy, Hole in the Wall Gang, Edna Richards Jenkins, Bear George McClellan, Governor Richards, Mr. Rupp, Dad Worland.
Places: Canyon Creek, Nowood River.
Businesses: Red Bank Cattle Co.
Newspaper articles, The history of the Picard and Hayes families, An Earthquake, a Landslide, a Grandma by M. Dane Picard, Walking the Four Corners by M. Dane Picard, geneaology chart.
Places: Echo Canyon, Kane, Lost Cabin, Owl Creek.
Biographical information
Subjects: Blacksmith, Box Social, Boxing, CCC, Family games, Farmers, Flat irons, Hog butchering, House building, Ice house, Laundry, P.W.Os.'s, toys & games, Wedding, Weeding beets, WPA.
Places: Durkee School, Emmett Building, Kirby, Neiber, South Flat, South Flat School, Watson Building.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biography
Subjects: Piano lessons
Places: Durkee, Emmett building, Spring Creek School.
Subjects: Boxcar, Canning, Crops, Dances, The Depression, Flu, Hail, Midwife, Milk business, Picnic, Sunday School.
People: Dr. Farlein (dentist), Dr. Gray, Mrs. Johnson.
Places: Rairden
Award speech, biography
Subjects: Building highway, CC Camp, County commissioner, Delco, Sidewalks, Ten Sleep City incorporated, Trucking, Water.
People: Paul Frison
Places: Bonanza, Durkee, First National Bank Building, Mileski Building, Pulliam Building.
Businesses: Ten Sleep Mercantile
Clubs/Organizations: Chamber of Commerce
Pioneering Women history, Latham family history
Subjects: Bridge-cards, Community hall, Dairy, Horse round up, Oil company, Oil fields.
Places: Fifteen Mile, Grass Creek, Meeteetse.
Businesses: Standard Bulk Plant
Clubs/Organizations: 4-H, Eastern Star, Garden Club, Home Extension, Presbyterian Church.
Obituary of Roy Russell, funeral program for Cecil Russell
Subjects: Emer grain, Electricity, Radio.
People: Professor Buttons
Places: Emmett School
Businesses: John Deere, Russell Hardware.
Subjects: The Depression, Japanese Internment Camp
Places: Heart Mountain Relocation Camp
Businesses: Deluxe Cleaners
Newspaper articles, history of Joseph Francis Salsman, excerpt from A Land of Promise, history prior to leaving Russia, biographical notes.
Subjects: Beets, The Depression, Draft-World War II, Schools.
People: Charlie Cogdill, Pop Emmett, Dr. Gray, Lean Salzman Ogg, Anne Salzman Piel, D.T. Pulliam.
Places: Deep Creek School, Durkee School, Gebo, South Flat School.
Businesses: Holly Sugar, P & S Machine.
Clubs/Organizations: Hod Carriers Union
Biography
Subjects: Migrant workers, Poverty, Sugar beets.
Places: Heart Mountain Internment Camp
Clubs/Organizations: Worland Monarch Softball Team
Ephemera from 95th birthday celebration, newspaper articles, museum newsletter, photos, ad, Governor's Proclamation, resume, brochure from Cathedral Home for Children
Subjects: Ball fields, Church bell, Cemetery, Foundation, Museum, Parks, Pepsi, Philanthropic work.
People: Forrest Clay, Tom Gee Sr., Les Kimsey, Jack Lyons, Howard & Elsie McClellan, Earl Varney, Viele, Mrs. Wallarl.
Places: Emmett Field, Newell Sargent Park, Pioneer Square.
Businesses: Continental Oil Co., Pepsi Cola Co., Worland Franchise
Clubs/Organizations: Masons, Newell Sargent Foundation, St. Alban's Episcopal Church.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biography
Neiber Cemetery information, newspaper articles
People: Neibers
Places: Gooseberry Creek, Neiber
Subjects: Auctioneer, Boxing, School, Sugar beets.
People: Harley Bower, John Brown, Terrill Gibbons, Willie Senna.
Places: Garretson Building, South Flat School.
Businesses: Holly Sugar, Reisch Auction School.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Geneaology of Scott family, biographies, photo
Biography, photos
Subjects: Bicentennial, Catering, County lines, Dances, Doll collection, Fires-house & home, Hauling water, Organist, Paper goods, Piano lessons, Pioneer house, Rural school, Talent radio program, Teacher-msuic school, Ten Sleep raid, Umpires.
People: Earl Gadbury, George McGovern, Marilyn McKeon, Ruth McKeon, Court Pritchard, Homer Renner, Vesta Saban, Doug Seaman, Lloyd Seaman, Charlie Worland.
Places: Big Piney, Hyattville, Renner's sawmill.
Clubs/Organizations: American Legion Auxiliary, Historical Society, Seaman Rhythm Makers.
Geneaology
Subjects: Education, Pearl Harbor, Radio programs, Sawmill, School dances, World War II.
People: Lucas Lambert
Places: Gooseberry, Nowater.
Businesses: Holly Sugar, Mobil.
Clubs/Organizations: Masonic Lodge, Methodist Church.
Subjects: Dark room, Garbage system, Oil refinery, Photography, Truck driver, World War II.
People: Dr. Foster, Dick Gibson, Dan Healy, Minnie Watson.
Businesses: Gibson Studio, Showalter Studio, Yale Oil Company.
Newspaper article
Subjects: Baseball, Murder trial.
Clubs/Organizations: CCC camp, Worland Indians.
Subjects: Delivering babies, Hospital, Nursing.
People: Dr. Anderson, Johnny Clymore, Dr. Groshart, Margaret Hyatt, Mr. Veile.
Businesses: The Wagon Wheel
Newspaper article, color photos.
Subjects: Artesian well, Corn harvest, Electricity, Half dugout, Midwife, Milking, Milo (grain), Mother's helper, Oil wells, Patriotism, Premature baby, Rain/hail, Sunday School, Ten Sleep Rodeo, Thyroid, Train, Water witch.
People: Milton Alexander, Paul Frison, Reg Goff, Leo Rhodes.
Places: Basin, Greybull, Hyattville, Ten Sleep.
Clubs/Organizations: Civic organizations, Methodist Church, National Guard Cavlary Training Center.
Subjects: Country school, Dairy, Electricity, Farming, Hay raking, Recess games, School wagon, Shopping, Washakie Days.
Clubs/Organizations: Eastside Extension Club, Methodist Church.
Subjects: Alfalfa, Cameras, Emer grain, Hay market, Photography, School board.
People: Berkenkamp, Charlie Worland, Henry Wostenberg.
Places: Durkee School, Fritz Ditch, Germania/Emblem Bench.
Businesses: Durkee School District
Clubs/Organizations: Alfalfa Club, Lutheran Church.
Subjects: Appendix, Telephone, Washakie Days.
People: Dad Worland, Dr. Gage, Dr. Miller, Muirhead's, Van Wert's.
Places: 4-H Camp, Circle J Ranch, Emmett School.
Businesses: Hampton & South, Stockgrower's Bank, Washakie Hotel, Wild Bear Garage.
Subjects: Baseball, Cemetery, Shingles.
People: Clyde Shierk
Clubs/Organizations: Fire Department, Legion, Worland Indians.
Newspaper article, Wagon train camp at Lost Cabin, John Bragnard Okie
Subjects: Spring Creek Raid
People: J.B. Okie
Places: Lost Cabin
Subjects: Bee business
Places: Lost Cabin
Businesses: Holly Sugar, Worland Livestock Auction, Worland Solid Waste.
Clubs/Organizations: Farm Bureau
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biography, newspaper article, small account of family of Frank & Rosa St. Clair.
Subjects: Photography
People: Bob Overstreet, Rico Stine.
Businesses: Chevrolet Garage
Subjects: Depression, Homesteading, Pinochle.
Places: Bluff School/Palmer School, Colter, Gebo, Kirby.
Operators interviewed: Ruthie McKeon, Emma Hampton, and Florence Laird. Copy of The Murder of John A. Tisdale.
Subjects: Cemetery, Elks Theater fire, Flu Epidemic, Prostitution (madams), Wool growers/buyers, World War II.
People: Joe Hampton, Josephine Mileski Porter, Dr. Reed.
Places: Wyoming Industrial School
Businesses: Mountain Bell Co., Washakie Trading Co.
Photographs, handwritten additions by Edtih.
Subjects: Circle J, Ranch life, Spring Creek Raid.
People: Johnny Buckmaster, Milo Burke, Chatfield's, Ben Helmer, Faye Moses, Roy Shriver, Lige Thaxton.
Places: Double H Ranch, Hazelton, Old Mann Schoolhouse, Otter Creek, Nowood, Spring Creek, Wigwam.
Businesses: Hazelton Hotel, Highway Department.
Clubs/Organizations: Methodist Church
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Tales of a sheepherder-Banker by Dean Tolman, family history, newspaper article.
The Lineage of "Libbie" Lurinda Lewis, Life Story of Elizabeth Norton Lewis, outline of life for the Wyoming Council on Aging, tale by Ethel M. Townsend.
Subjects: Early life in the 1900s in Worland
Places: Nowood, Paint Rock.
Lists of biographical dates, newspaper articles, photo, poetry booklet.
Subjects: Bomber crash site, Bulls-prize winning, Cattle, Cowboy life, Homesteading, Road building, Taylor Grazing Act, Wild horses.
People: George Muirhead, Kid Nichols, Small's, Earl Varney.
Places: Bomber Mountain, Bonanza, Hyattville, Manderson.
Clubs/Organizations: Big Horn Hereford Association, Hereford Rangers Association, Purebred Registered Cattle Business, Tri-State Hereford Association, Worland Garden Club.
Wyoming State Museum release, biographical information.
Subjects: Christmas, Discipline, Family, Pets, School, Teenagers.
Photos, email communications, sketch of life, newspaper articles, invitation to birthday celebration, Japanese characters, genealogy in Japanese.
Subjects: Japanese Traditions, World War II.
Places: Durkee School, Heart Mountain Internment Camp, Rairden.
Clubs/Organizations: Buddhist Church, Worland Indians (baseball team).
Subjects: Butcher, Bridge, Cattle-slaughter, Dances, Electricity, Horse racing, Meat Market, Spring Creek Raid, Ten Sleep Raid.
People: Chatfield's
Places: Crosby, Gebo, Grass Creek, Kirby, Nowood, Spring Creek.
Businesses: Triangle Meat Packing, Van's Candy & Tobacco Service, Van's Food Market.
Information on Jessie Wilson Varney, newspaper articles, list of family items for display at museum.
Subjects: Brick laying/stone work, Cars, House of ill fame, Pharmacist, Piano, World War I.
People: George Murihead
Places: Ford Garage, Gebo Mine, Thermopolis.
Businesses: Golden Rule, J.C. Penney.
Subjects: Airplanes, Bootleg whiskey, Canals, Carbide lights, Dancing, Ditches, Homesteading-Desert Right, Prohibition, School bus, Sugar beets, Taylor Grazing Act, Tractors.
People: Charlie Hanner, Hart brothers, Governor Richards, C.F. Robertson.
Places: Black Mountain, Crosby, Emmett School, Halstead Canal, Hanover Canal, Neiber, Nowood River, Pitchfork Ranch.
Businesses: Bureau of Land Management, Lincoln Land Co.
People: Charlie Hanner, Hart brothers, Governor Richards, C.F. Robertson, Harry Voss.
Places: Big Horn River, Halstead Canal, Hanover Canal, Hart Ditch, Neiber, Nowood River, Pitchfork Ranch.
Businesses: Bureau of Land Management, Lincoln Land Co.
Subjects: Russia/Germany, World War I, World War II.
People: Alex Healy, Ben Kister.
C.H. Hampton family history, Jordan L. Smith family at Mahogany Butte, Empire Magazine article, list of items that were displayed in musuem, biography of Cyrus Huston Hampton.
Subjects: Beets, Brothel, Saloon, School.
People: Dr. Gray, Miss Washakie, Dad Worland, Sadie Worland.
Places: Mahogany Butte Ranch, Neiber, Red Bank.
Businesses: County Clerk, Nelson/Hampton Saloon.
Clubs/Organizations: Republican Women's Club
Subjects: Farming, High School Normal Training, Horses, Murders, Spring Creek Raid, Stockyard, Sugan (cowboy bedroll).
People: John Bigfoot, Frank Canton, Bear George McClellan, Orchard's, Johnny Tisdale, Virgil Thompson.
Places: Big Trails Ranch, Deep Creek Ranch, Double H Ranch, Gebo, Neiber, Nowood, Rairden, Red Bank School, R.M. Ranch, Ten Sleep.
Businesses: McGarvin-Moberly, Soil Conservation.
Subjects: Bees Dances, Depression, Gypsies, Horses, Mountain Lions, Radio, Road building, Sculpture, Telephone, World War II.
People: George McClellan
Places: Big Trails, Deep Creek, Durkee, Gooseberry, Nowood Ranch, Washakie Ten.
Clubs/Organizations: LDS church
Subjects: Hospital
People: List of 36 people associated with the hospital over the year:
Dr. Anderson, Dr. Avery, Edna Clymore, Sally Culbertson, Dr. Engleman, Ruth Fare, Margie Fassler, Eleanor Feraud, Dr. Froyd, Blanche Glenn, Dr. Gray, Dr. Groshart, Harriet Groshart, Bunny Haines, Dr. Harmon, Beth Harper, Dr. Horsley, Loretta Hyatt, Margaret Hyatt, Bernie Johnson, Charlene Lungren, Dr. McKeon, Dr. Misner, Margaret Morgaridge, Fran Pinegar, Dr. Porter, Ida Porter, Mrs. Putnam, Lou Rennock, Lila Riechert, Lavena Smith, Meg Stark, Ron Swartzendruber, Jackie Thompson, Kate Tideman, Beverly Wilson.
NO ORAL HISTORY. Personal papers collected during the Oral History Project.
Biography of Mary Ettie Carrier Wortham, biography of Wilbur (Webb) Wortham, biography of George W. Wortham.
Subjects: Archaelogy, Arrowheads, Sheepherder.
People: George Frison, Mr. & Mrs. Tolman.
Places: Canyon Creek, Chatfield V, Onion Gulch, Rome Hill.
Clubs/Organizations: Girl Scouts
