Upper Wind River Wyoming

A camp on the upper Wind River made by President Chester A. Arthur’s expedition through Northwestern Wyoming to Yellowstone National Park in August of 1883 (F. Jay Haynes, Yale Beinecke Library- Image ID-1072489) and a repeat photograph near the town Dubois in 2010 (CW-2010-09-26-508).  The expedition was on the route routinely used by native Americans, early mountain men, and early US military mappers. Captain Raynolds observed in his spring, 1860 trip, it appeared that the East Shoshone had, in late summer or fall of 1859, herded a large group of bison up the valley near this location, and into a large-area terrain trap, or “buffalo pound” to the east.1

  1. Merrill, M. D. and D. D. Merrill. eds. Up the Winds and Over the Tetons: Journal Entries and Images from the 1860 Raynolds Expedition. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012.