Washakie Museum and Cultural Center

Margaret Goodwin, born in 1909, recalls riding in a carriage as a little girl, and her parents’ purchase of their first automobile in 1916.

Harold Van Buskirk, born in 1897, worked in a grocery store in his youth in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin.

Golden Allred, born in 1910, trapped beaver, bobcat and other animals for 22 years in and around Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin.

Frances Hecht, born in 1904, recalls her work curing meat, keeping milk cool without a refrigerator or icebox, hauling river water to wash clothes in a Maytag powered by a car motor and lighting a flame to heat the iron.

Felix Mercado, born in 1940, worked with his family in the sugar beet fields around Worland, Wyo. in his youth.

Edith Thaxton, born in 1898, much later in life recalled the dances of her youth.

Adam Schneider, born in 1917, was a featherweight boxer in his youth in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin.