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The town was founded in 1883 by French nobleman Antoine Amedee Marie Vincent Manca de Vallambrosa. He named it for his wife, Medora Von Hoffman, daughter of a New York investment banker.
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The once wild and woolly cowtown still celebrates its Old West heritage.
The arrival of the railroad in 1872 transformed this trading post settlement on the Arkansas River into a cowtown, a destination for cattle driven north on the Chisholm Trail.
The Texas drovers brought trouble, and trouble brought a young lawman named Wyatt Earp. He did fine work until his temper won out and he used his fists to beat the socks off a candidate for city marshal.
Founded in 1868 near the confluence of the Little Arkansas and Arkansas rivers, the frontier outpost of Wichita quickly became a trailhead for Texas cattlemen and their herds of longhorns when the AT&SF Railroad arrived in 1872.
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Pinedale, Wyoming
The historic Green River Valley community is a great place to rendezvous like a mountain man.
The annual Green River Rendezvous was first held in Pinedale in the summer of 1936. In 2021, the Rendezvous is scheduled for July 8-11. The Plains Indian Encampment is always set up adjacent to the Museum of the Mountain Men.
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A visitor might wonder how any noteworthy history could’ve occurred in this remote hunting and outfitting settlement of 2,000 people in the Upper Green River Valley. With the beautiful Wind River Mountains as a backdrop, it sits at 7,175 feet and boasts of being 110 miles from the nearest incorporated town with a railroad head.