Dubois, Wyoming
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 Main street of Dubois |
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| Location in Wyoming | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Wyoming | ||
| County : | Fremont County | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 32 ′ N , 109 ° 38 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 971 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 144.9 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 6.8 km 2 (approx. 3 mi 2 ) of which 6.7 km 2 (approx. 3 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 2117 m | ||
| Postal code : | 82513 | ||
| Area code : | +1 307 | ||
| FIPS : | 56-21415 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1609085 | ||
| Website : | duboiswyoming.org | ||
Dubois is a city in Fremont County in the US state of Wyoming with approximately 1,000 residents.
geography
Dubois is 2117 m above sea level and the Wind River flows through it. The total area of the city is 6.8 km² .
history
Dubois is named after the politician Fred Dubois , a senator from Idaho . The city was originally named Never Sweat because of its dry and warm winds .
The area around Dubois was initially settled by sheepeaters who moved on their annual migrations from the Great Plains to the mountains of the Yellowstone River and also came through the Wind River area. In the Wind River valley that surrounds Dubois, there are numerous archaeological traces of these people who lived there for hundreds of years before they were relocated to the reserve. Among the currently known remains are sometimes prehistoric petroglyphs , animal traps, Hunting Blinds and Tipi -Steinkreise.
From 1742 to 1743 Francois and Louis Verendrye were the first Europeans to travel to the area. In the early nineteenth century, members of the Astor Expedition and other fur hunters regularly roamed the Winder River valley . Jim Bridger visited the area en route to Yellowstone, particularly passing nearby Union Pass and Union Peak . The first settler pioneers arrived in the late 1870s .
1890 had Butch Cassidy , the built in honor a statue in the center of the city, outside of Dubois a ranch. In 1914 Scandinavian lumberjacks came to Dubois for the Wyoming Tie and Timber Company , which led to the establishment of a hotel, a bar and a department store. John Roberts, an Episcopal missionary, founded St. Thomas Church in 1910. With the Ramshorn Ranch and Camp Yellowstone, Charles Moore set up the first of his many tourist ranches in the area west of Dubois in 1907 .
Attractions
- National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center
- Dubois Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dubois. In: Wyoming tales and trails. Retrieved May 8, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Lawrence L. Loendorf & Nancy Stone Medaris: Mountain Spirit: The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone . In: The University of Utah Press . August.
- ^ The Mountain Shoshones . In: Wind River Rendezvous . 20, No. 3, July - September 1990, pp. 3-5.
- ^ A b c Mary Allison: Dubois, Wyoming Area History . Curtis Media Corp., 1991, ISBN 0-8810-7179-X .
- ^ Edward J. Farlow: Wind River Adventures: My Life in Frontier Wyoming . In: High Plains Press . 1998, p. 123.
- ^ History of Dubois, Wyoming. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 16, 2013 ; accessed on May 8, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
