The Sweetwater County Museum Foundation is hosting a special daylong outing to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the first ...

Friday, July 11 and Saturday, July 12. All indications are the event will be well attended One of the featured speakers at ...

Williams kicked off its July 4th celebration with a parade that drew huge crowds to historic downtown. The procession ...

When an 18-year-old Joe Meek arrived in the wilderness of Wyoming in 1829, the greenhorn had to toughen up fast to survive ...

These furry philosophers, found all along the Coast and Rocky mountains up to Alaska, are the reason Whistler got its name ...

Mountain Man Rendezvous in Riverton isn’t just held near a historic rendezvous site, it’s the actual site. It's where Jim ...

Penelope Pace, 2, eagerly leads her grandpa towards the cannon shoot competition held by the Sapphire Mountain Men at the Wildhorse Rendezvous, Sunday afternoon.

April 10, 2025 (Campo) – You’re invited to join mountain men, fur trappers and pioneer families from the Laguna Mountain Rendezvous for “Shinin’ Times” that rewind back to the 1820s. The ...

Fifty years ago, 73,877 acres of the Mission Mountains area were designated as wilderness, defined as, “an area of ...

On the trip south and throughout the day, narration and storytelling will be provided by prominent Mountain Man historian Dennis Freeman.

The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband ...

The blast came from black powder rifles, courtesy of local mountain man enthusiasts dressed in period-accurate frontier attire, similar to what Ogden and other trappers might have worn.