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Green River Star -
David Martin
Lauren Lee, a barista at Coal Train Coffee, offers an iced latte to a customer Wednesday morning. The coffee shop is the latest in a number of new businesses opening in downtown Green River.
The scent of coffee hangs heavy in the air as barista Lauren Lee fills an order for an iced latte at Coal Train Coffee Wednesday morning. Light coming in from a window facing Castle Rock illuminates the inside of the coffee shop, showcasing the stainless steel appliances. Everything looks new.
Located in the Tomahawk Hotel, in the corner space facing Flaming Gorge Way, the coffee shop s owner, Denise Webster thinks is the perfect spot for her business. Originally, her aim was to establish Coal Train Coffee in the Green River Depot, continuing the theme she started when she opened the Rock Springs branch of Coal Train Coffee at the Rock Springs Depot. The ongoing and slow-moving renovation work at the Green River Depot meant she would have to wait several years
GREEN RIVER In the spring of 1869, John Wesley Powell launched his first epic expedition to explore the Green River, Colorado River, and the Grand Canyon from what was then called Green River City, leading a team of nine men in four boats.
May 22nd marks the 150th (sesquicentennial) anniversary of Powell’s second, 1871, expedition launch, also from Green River, and the Sweetwater County Historical Museum is sponsoring an expanded John Wesley Powell exhibit and coloring contest for children.
The expanded exhibit features over 20 photographs from the 1871 expedition, particularly prized by historians as no cameras were taken along on the first, 1869, exploration.
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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.