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“Pic of the Week”, October 2, 2015: ‘Working the Line’, Pinedale, Wyoming
I was charmed by the small town of Pinedale, Wyoming. Situated about an hour from Jackson Hole, it’s a place of hardy individuals — cowboys, ranchers, outdoors-men, and those who live farming the land. The town honors those rugged individuals who preceded them with this statue of a Mountain Man, situated just outside the town’s visitor center. It’s called “Working the Line”.
Mountain men were the first white pioneers in the area, exploring the mountains and living in the cold and isolated ranges of Wyoming, making a living trapping and trading furs. It was a hard and lonely life, but it appealed to some. The mountain men’s time period was in the mid to late 19th century, before the rail opened …
Oct 1, 2015
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