A GEM IN SOUTHERN WYOMING

n the 1830s trappers and traders held rendezvous at Camp le Grande, at the base of the Sierra Madre in what would become south-central Wyoming. There they bartered with Utes and other local tribes. At the end of the next decade Forty-Niners bound for the California goldfields passed through on a branch of the Cherokee Trail. By the 1860s and ’70s settlers and ranchers had put down roots. Not until the discovery of rich ore deposits, however, did people demand the removal