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Trapping, trading and black powder were buzzing again in the Grand Encampment area of southern Wyoming for living history day. Visitors get to tour a tie hack cabin, one-room schoolhouse, stage station, a livery filled with wagons, and even a two-story outhouse.
True West Magazine Old West adventures await across the Cowboy State’s colorful Carbon County Quite likely the most gruesome artifact on exhibit in any museum in Wyoming (maybe the West) is the pair of shoes at the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins. They might appear to be just simple leather shoes, and they are…except that the leather is the skin of Big Nose George Parrott. When on a history tour of Carbon County, Wyoming, a key stop is Encampment’s Grand Encampment Museum, a superior collection of 14 relocated and restored mining camp buildings. Photo by Candy Moulton The skinning c...