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Green River Valley Museum. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
Green River Valley Museum

The Green River Valley Museum is open summers from Tuesday through Saturdays, Noon until 4:00 PM, until October 15th. Admission is by donation.
Green River Valley Museum Open House
by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online!
June 17, 2009

The Green River Valley Museum in Big Piney held an open house on Tuesday, June 16th. They held informal tours of the museum complex and presented their new Oil and Gas DVD. One of the new exhibits this year is of old wedding dresses worn by women in the community.

Green River Valley Museum
206 N Front Street
Big Piney, Wyoming
307-276-5343



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  • Wedding Dress Exhibit. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Wedding Dress Exhibit

    Dresses. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Dresses

    Wedding Dresses. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Wedding Dresses

    Burnham Building. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Burnham Building
    The Burnham building is set up like a general store. The Wedding Dress exhibit is in this building.

    Cash Register. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Cash Register
    Antique cash register used in Burney's store in Big Piney. Donated by Linda Leonard.

    Wardell Buffalo Trap. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Wardell Buffalo Trap
    The Museum has a large display devoted to the archaeology of the Wardell Buffalo Trap, located several miles east of Big Piney. This legendary site is It is the earliest known evidence of a communal bison kill involving use of bow and arrow in the northwest plains. More

    Wardell Mural detail. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Wardell Mural detail
    Detail of one section of the large Wardell Buffalo Trap wall mural inside the Museum.

    Please Touch. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Please Touch
    Not everything is behind glass cases at the Museum. They have a table with things kids CAN touch.

    Ranching Mural. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Ranching Mural
    This large wall mural is entitled "Cowboys on the Green." It was painted by Ann Anspach, Holly Jensen, Kay Meeks, Ruth Rawhouser and Lynn Thomas and donated to the Museum in 1991 to go with the brand project and ranching exhibits.

    Del Dearth Shotgun. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Del Dearth Shotgun
    The top shotgun belonged to Delbert Dearth who came to Big Piney in the early 1920s as a government trapper to trap gray wolves and coyotes that were killing cattle in the area. Ironically, now the government is spending tax dollars to bring predators back to ranchlands.

    No 2 Govt Tip Top Well. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    No 2 Govt Tip Top Well
    The #2 Gov't. Tip Top Well belonged to the Western Oil Refining Company. This well blew in while coring at 980 feet, making 60 million cu. ft. of gas a day on September 9, 1952. This is one photo that is a part of the Sublette County oil and gas history display at the Museum. Some of the mountain men here in the 1830s wrote comments in their diaries about oil seeps coming to the surface of the ground in the LaBarge area, south of Big Piney.

    Ivor Johnson 38 Special. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Ivor Johnson 38 Special
    This Ivor Johnson .38 Special belonged to Guy M. Carr, Big Piney Town Marshall in the 1940s and 1950s. Donated by Jean Carr.

    Old Jail Cell. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Old Jail Cell
    The building that originally held this jail cell was built in the 1920s and burned in the late 1940s. Having nowhere else to put their prisoners, law enforcement officers continued to house prisoners here without benefit of a roof or other comfortable amenities you see pictured here. This cell is on display in the main building of the Museum.

    Coal Mine. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Coal Mine
    The Museum has a display and many photos dedicated to the historic coal mining in the Upper Green River Valley.

    Coal. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Coal

    Coal Map. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Coal Map

    Big Piney Examiner. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Big Piney Examiner
    The Big Piney Examiner published weekly between 1911 to 1968. Presses from the newspaper now are on exhibit in the Green River Valley Museum.

    Big Piney newspaper. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Big Piney newspaper

    Schoolhouse. Photo by Dawn  Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Schoolhouse
    The Price-Sommers School was used in the 1920s. It was located on the north end of the Price ranch, next to the Sommers ranch, along the Green River drainage between Daniel and Pinedale.

    GRVM Addition. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    GRVM Addition
    This building has more displays. It is located behind the main building.

    1908 Buckeye Ditcher. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    1908 Buckeye Ditcher
    Used on the Rainbow Lease.

    Halfway Post Office. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Halfway Post Office
    To the left is the Halfway Post Office building. On the right is the back side of the Black Homestead Cabin. This post office was operated out of various locations over the years to service rural residents in the Cottonwood Creek/Ryegrass drainage area between Daniel and Big Piney.

    Black Homestead Cabin. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Black Homestead Cabin
    This 1900 era cabin was originally located on the Sikes place. It was dismantled, the logs numbered, and reassembled log by log.

    Cabin Interior. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Cabin Interior
    Interior view of the Black Homestead Cabin.

    Old Mail Truck. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Old Mail Truck

    Tie Hack Display. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Tie Hack Display
    Tie hackers operated in the Wyoming Range of the Bridger-Teton National Forest fro 1900 to the 1930s. The cut down trees and made them into railroad ties for tracks for the Union Pacific Railroad. Logging was done in the winter and the ties were piled up along streams. The tie hack loggers used the force of spring thaw water surges along Cottonwood Creek and its tributaries to take the ties down to the Green River, where they were floated down to Green River City.

    Floating ties. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Floating ties
    Tie hackers floating ties down what is believed to be South Cottonwood Creek.

    Tie log jam. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Tie log jam
    Tie log jam on the Green River.

    Saddles and Tack. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Saddles and Tack
    Display of old saddles and equipment used in the early ranching days of the area.

    William Bauer. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    William Bauer
    A week earlier, the Green River Valley Museum held a Wyoming Humanities program: "Buying, Selling and Trading in Indian Country: American Indians, Overland Migrants, and Economic Borders of the Overland Trail," given by guest speaker William Bauer.
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