Eric Rossborough

September 29, 2021

Hal Evarts’s Skunk Ranch

In 1903, when Hal Evarts was fifteen years old, he and a friend made camp on the Arkansas River. “Fur sign was…

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August 25, 2021

The Twilight Life of Charles King

Popular nineteenth century writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Mark Twain were so popular they got their own library call number. This…

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July 28, 2021

Anson Eddy Takes Off

A Future Executive? When I was doing research on Anson Eddy, I found record of someone by that name working as an…

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June 23, 2021

The Man Who Wasn’t Jim Bridger

A Well-watered Area Jim Bridger had seen the handwriting on the wall. Between the early 1820s and late 1830s, fur brigades had…

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May 26, 2021

The Day I met Willis McDonald

Shortly after I started at the McCracken Research Library, our Director, Mary Robinson, came into my office one day. “Do you want…

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April 28, 2021

Mountain Men of the Old School

Max Wilde first drifted through the Cody area in 1913. An Indiana farm boy, he was fascinated by stories of hunting and…

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