Meeteetse Stories

Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4 with this bonus episode! In this episode, we dive into the life of Josh Deane and touch on each of his marriages. Please excuse any audio quality problems, we had problems with the audio during this recording.

To learn more about Josh Deane:

Check out the “Mayor of Meeteetse” book available at the Meeteetse Museums gift store

Read this blog post on Josh Deane: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/6263-2/

If you’re interested in becoming a member of the Meeteetse Museums, check out our website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/

The music in this episode is “Blue Digression” by David Dellacroce from Free Music Archives, licensed under CC BY 4.0. or CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4! In this episode, we look into the life and myths surrounding Victor Arland and the infamous town of Arland.

To learn more about Victor Arland, read this blog post on the Meeteetse Museums’ website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/wine-honey-and-saloons-victor-arland-in-the-bighorn-basin/

To learn more about Arland’s business partner, John Franklin Corbett, read this blog post: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/john-franklin-corbett/

To learn more about John Corbett’s wife, Mary Corbett, read this blog post: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/women-proprietors-of-early-meeteetse-part-ii-mary-j-corbett/

To learn more about the Dadant family, check out their website here: https://www.dadant.com/history/

For more on the history of honey in the United States:

https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/60500500/PDFFiles/1-100/011-Oertel--Honey%20Prices.pdf

https://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/candles2.html#:~:text=Beeswax%20candles%20burn%20brighter%20and,in%20Europe%20during%20this%20time.

https://www.revolutionarywarjournal.com/honey-bees-in-early-america-white-mans-flies-fact-and-fiction/

For more information on prostitution in the American West:

William Sanger, The History of Prostitution; its Extent, Causes, and Effects Throughout the World (New York: Harper and Bros., 1858).

https://scholarworks.bellarmine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=ugrad_theses,

https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2348&context=etd

https://curioushistorian.com/saloon-girls-the-soiled-doves-of-the-old-west

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2011/a-brothel-reveals-its-secrets/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29543241

https://academic.oup.com/florida-scholarship-online/book/31079/chapter-abstract/264076263?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/online-exhibits/history-of-birth-control/contraception-in-america-1800-1900/19th-century-artifacts/

https://time.com/3662361/women-american-west/

If you’re interested in becoming a member of the Meeteetse Museums, check out our website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/

The music in this episode is “Blue Digression” by David Dellacroce from Free Music Archives, licensed under CC BY 4.0. or CC BY-SA 4.0. Also included in this episode was, “Slow Western Intro” by Brian Holtz Music which can be found here: https://filmmusic.io/song/8782-slow-western-intro and is licensed under CC by 4.0.

Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4! In this episode, we dive into the mysterious past of former Meeteetse resident Peter Perrin and his connection to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

For more on Peter Perrin, listen to Season 1 of “Meeteetse Stories” or check out this blog post on the Meeteetse Museums website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/meeteetses-civil-war-veterans/

To learn more about the USS Montauk, the assassination of President Lincoln, and spies in the Civil War, explore these sources:

https://patch.com/new-york/southampton/bp--the-story-of-the-ironclad-uss-montauk-in-the-civil-war

https://www.southamptonhistory.org/post/the-union-iron-clad-monitor-montauk

https://www.history.nd.gov/publications/lincolns-bodyguard.pdf

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/john-wilkes-booth

https://www.visitmaryland.org/article/who-was-john-wilkes-booth

https://library.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/neff/pdfs/guttridge_identification.pdf

https://americanhistory.si.edu/lincoln/booth-and-lincoln

If you’re interested in becoming a member of the Meeteetse Museums, check out our website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/

The music in this episode is:

 “Blue Digression” by David Dellacroce from Free Music Archives, licensed under CC BY 4.0. or CC BY-SA 4.0.

“Mysterious” by Tom Aldrich is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

“Mysterious Footprints” by Nutmeg is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4! In this episode, we are joined by Brain Beauvais with the Park County Archives to learn more about Meeteetse’s connection to early conservation in the United States. The episode focuses on the lives of A.A. Anderson and William Pickett.

To learn more about William Pickett’s life, watch this presentation by Brain Beauvais given to the Meeteetse Museums: https://youtu.be/G_A2jjQEu6s

To learn more about the firearms used by William Pickett in his bear hunting, watch this presentation given by Danny Michael, Curator of the firearms museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West: https://youtu.be/JXAUgWcujAQ

To learn more about the North American Model of conservation, listen to Season 2 Episode 2 of “Meeteetse Stories”

For more on the forest reserves, we suggest these sources:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/learn/our-history

https://www.neh.gov/article/frenemies-john-muir-and-gifford-pinchot

Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands by John Clayton

https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/conservation-versus-preservation

If you’re interested in becoming a member of the Meeteetse Museums, check out our website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/

The music in this episode is “Blue Digression” by David Dellacroce from Free Music Archives, licensed under CC BY 4.0. or CC BY-SA 4.0.

To learn more about surveying, check out these sources:

https://rsc.byu.edu/far-away-west/cartographic-representations-american-west-eve-mormon-exodus

https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/maps-and-mapmaking/

https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/surveying-colonial/

To learn more about the history of teaching, check out these

https://web.stanford.edu/~dlabaree/publications/An_Uneasy_Relationship_Proofs.pdf

https://suny.buffalostate.edu/news/1871-2021-short-history-education-united-states

https://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/timeline.html

If you’re interested in becoming a member of the Meeteetse

The music in this episode is “Blue Digression” by David

In this episode, we'll explore the myth that women were not in business before the mid- to late-20th century. Meeteetse's own Sylvia Mikkelson and Mary Corbett help us tell this story locally while we contextualize it through interviews with Drs. Susan Ingalls Lewis and Susan Yohn. Dr. Susan Ingalls Lewis is a Professor Emerita in History at State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz and author of Unexceptional Women and Girls to the Rescue. Dr. Susan Yohn studies women and gender in modern America and author of A Contest of Faiths: Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest.

For more information on Mary Corbett and Sylvia Mikkelson, mentioned in this episode, read our blog posts! Please note, in the episode, we mistakenly state that Mary Corbett did not have children. While she did not have children with John Corbett, she did have children. We will update the episode to reflect this as soon as we are able.

In this episode, we explore the industry of transportation and its role in the success of Meeteetse. Tom Davis of Cody was generous to provide much of the research about the early mail and stage routes in the area (visit our blog for these). We also speak to Michael R. Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art and Cheryl Mullenbach, author of Stagecoach Women.

Explore the mystery of Meeteetse's Iron Creek Foundry which is said to have manufactured bricks for the First National Bank (now the Bank Museum) and likely other buildings in town including the Weller or Overland Hotel. We learn from Rachel Whitlow and James Mauch about brick making and the geological processes that made Iron Creek a good spot to make brick and explore historical newspapers in the search for Meeteetse's brickmaker. Rachel is the Executive Director at the Haverstraw Brick Museum in New York (www.haverstrawbrickmuseum.org) and James is a geologist at the Wyoming State Geological Survey. 

For more information on the mystery of the Iron Creek brickworks, read our blog post: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/the-mystery-of-the-iron-creek-brickworks/

This season of "Meeteetse Stories" explores a sampling of the trades and industries of early Meeteetse. The blacksmith shop was the first building in Meeteetse so it seems fitting to kick this season off with learning about blacksmithing! We'll speak to Alex Pole and Ken Schwarz to learn about blacksmithing and Kelsey Kehoe to learn about the geology of coal in the area. Alex Pole is the owner of The Forge and author of "Blacksmith: Apprentice to Master" and "The Forge Kitchen." You can find him at www.alexpoleironwork.com. Ken is the master blacksmith at the blacksmith shop in Colonial Williamsburg (www.colonialwilliamsburg.org). Kelsey is a geologist at the Wyoming State Geological Survey (www.wsgs.wyo.gov).

For more information on Meeteetse's early blacksmiths read our blog post here: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/early-history-of-the-meeteetse-blacksmith-shop/

Thank you for listening to this season of "Meeteetse Stories"! If you would like to see more podcast content or help fund the Bison of the Bighorn Basin project, please consider donating to the Meeteetse Museums through our website.

Mentioned in this Episode

Directory to bison bone terms, courtesy of GRSLE Archaeology

Ken Burns Documentary: https://kenburns.com/films/the-american-buffalo/

Special Guests

Dr. Kenneth Cannon

Website: https://cannonheritage.com/

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kenneth_Cannon

Email: [email protected]

Dr. Jeff Martin

Website: https://bisonjeff.weebly.com/

Center of Excellence for Bison Studies: https://www.sdstate.edu/directory/jeff-martin

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeff_Martin5

Email: [email protected]

Jason Baldes

Articles written for the National Wildlife Federation: https://blog.nwf.org/authors/jason-baldes/

Articles for more information:

 https://wyomingwildlife.org/baldes-bison-what-the-return-of-buffalo-means-to-native-peoples/

https://woc.aises.org/content/jason-baldes-eastern-shoshone-wind-river-native-advocacy-center-executive-director

https://www.montana.edu/news/mountainsandminds/19345/the-descendants

Email: [email protected]

Dr. Lawrence Todd

Website: http://grslearchaeology.org/

Dr. Chris Widga

Website: https://www.etmnh.org/about/directory/chris-widga

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris_Widga

Email: [email protected]