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GREEN RIVER Author and biographer Bill Betenson paid a visit to the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River this week.
Betenson is the great-nephew of Robert Leroy Parker – better known as Butch Cassidy, the legendary western outlaw. Betenson has spent decades researching his famous relative and his first book about him, Butch Cassidy, My Uncle was published in 2012.
Betenson’s latest work,
Butch Cassidy: The Wyoming Years, was released last year by High Plains Press. It chronicles Cassidy’s life with special emphasis on his time in Wyoming.
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Between 1890 and 1901, when, along with Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid) and Etta Place, Cassidy fled the country for South America, he rustled livestock, served a hitch at the Territorial Prison in Laramie, owned a ranch near Dubois, and robbed banks and trains.
Green River Star -
Courtesy photo from the Sweetwater County Historical Museum
The Rock Springs Dragon, left, circa 1900, and his brother Loong, at right, both made at the same workshop in China in the early 1890s. Loong now lives in stately retirement at the Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo, Australia. The Golden Dragon Museum (at www.goldendragonmuseum.com ) is home to a total of eight Chinese parade dragons.
The Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River recently discovered that it has a unique cultural and historical link to another museum on the other side of the world.
The county museum recently published an article and Facebook post about the huge silk dragon used in parades and processions by the Chinese community in Rock Springs well over a century ago.
Green River Star -
February 3, 2021
A muzzle-loading Civil War infantry rifle was recently brought to the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River for examination and research through the museum’s Vintage Firearms Research Program.
Museum staff determined the rifle to be a very fine .58-caliber Model 1861 Springfield, manufactured in 1862. About 660,000 Model 1861s were produced by Springfield between 1861 and 1865 at a cost of $15 to $20 apiece. A slightly modified successor, the Model 1863, was made in similar quantities from 1863 to 1865.
A mainstay for the Union Army, the Model 1861 was a large weapon - nearly. For access to this article please sign in or
Green River Star -
January 20, 2021
Seventy-five people took part in a recent Facebook livestreamed event created by the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River.
Amanda Benson, the museum’s curator, took questions across a broad range of topics, including the duties of a curator, genealogical research, the museum’s extensive collection of historical photographs, care and preservation of artifacts, historic documents, and the museum’s volunteer program.
Before the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic, “Coffee With the Curator” was an in-person event at local coffee shops.
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