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Talk: Eagle Creek and the Earl Crouch Mine

July 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MDT

Horses grazing in Eagle Creek Meadows, June 1954. MS 89 Jack Richard Photograph Collection, McCracken Research Library. PN.89.6.1180.2 (detail)
Crouch Mine cart. Photo courtesy Bob Richard
Crouch Mine cart. Photo courtesy Bob Richard.

Eagle Creek & the Earl Crouch Mine

with Bob Richard

A “Local Lore” talk

Thursday, July 18, 2024
Noon–1 p.m.

Join us for a “Local Lore with Bob Richard” talk on Thursday, July 18 at noon, when Bob’s illustrated presentation discusses the history through today of Eagle Creek and the Earl Crouch Mine with stories and photographs.

Earl Crouch worked as a hunting guide for the Frost & Richard Camping Company. The miner had been to the Klondike and back, and later built and ran the Absaroka Lodge. Crouch found gold on Eagle Creek, and once the boundary of Yellowstone National Park was changed in 1928 was able to mine it. When Bob Richard was just eight years old, he washed dishes for the Frost & Richard Company during the summer and went along on a trip to Eagle Creek. Years later he inherited the mine and its claims from Crouch and worked it on weekends while he was a Yellowstone horse ranger. In the 1970s Bob turned the land—which he deemed too beautiful to “improve” with a road and mill—over to the Forest Service. Who better to tell us about this area and its history than Bob?!

These illustrated presentations have become so popular that we are introducing a slight modification. As an added perk of your Center membership, members can register for free and enjoy priority seating. Paid Center visitors can also register for free. While non-members and walk-ins are always welcome, they must also register and pay a nominal fee of $10, which supports our speaker programming.

Click the button below to register for this illustrated presentation.

Horses grazing in Eagle Creek Meadows, June 1954. MS 89 Jack Richard Photograph Collection, McCracken Research Library. PN.89.6.1180.2
Horses grazing in Eagle Creek Meadows, June 1954. MS 89 Jack Richard Photograph Collection, McCracken Research Library. PN.89.6.1180.2
Future Local Lore talks:

• September 12
• November 21
• December 19

The talks in this series are gathered in this YouTube playlist.


Bob Richard
Bob Richard

About Bob Richard

A lifelong Wyoming resident, Richard’s varied experiences are pure West. He worked at guest ranches, guided horse and hunting trips, ranched, and for 37 years owned and operated Grub Steak Expeditions, personally touring thousands of visitors from around the world through Yellowstone and its ecosystem.

Educated at the Universities of Wyoming, Arizona, and California (Fresno), Richard has served as a teacher and school administrator, a decorated United States Marine Corps pilot in Vietnam, and, for 21 years, helped coordinate American Red Cross service and relief activities in the western United States.

Richard is the author of several books on the Cody and Yellowstone area, as well as his own family’s deep roots in the region. They feature his own photographs and often those of his father Jack Richard and uncle Ned Frost. For information on Bob’s photography and his published books, visit bobrichardphotography.com.

Details

Date:
July 18
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MDT
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