Dubois (Wyoming)

Fremont County

56-21415

Dubois is a city in Fremont County in the U.S. state of Wyoming with about 1000 inhabitants.

Geography

Dubois is located 2117 m above sea level and is flowed from Wind River. The total area of the city is 6.8 km ².

History

Dubois is named after the politician Fred Dubois, a senator from Idaho. Originally, the city bore the name Never Sweat due to their warm, dry winds.

The area around Dubois was initially inhabited by Sheep Eater, who went on their annual migrations from the Great Plains to the mountains of the Yellowstone River and it came through the Wind River area. In the Valley of the Wind River that surrounds Dubois, there are numerous archaeological remains of these people who have lived prior to their relocation to the reservation where many hundreds of years. Among the well-known today remains sometimes include prehistoric petroglyphs, animal traps, Hunting Blinds and teepee stone circles.

From 1742 to 1743 traveled Francois and Louis Verendrye the first Europeans to the area. Beginning of the nineteenth century, the Winder River Valley was regularly roams from members of the Astor Expedition and other fur hunters. Jim Bridger visited the area on the way to Yellowstone and happened in particular the nearby Union Pass and Union Peak. In the late 1870s the first settlers pioneers arrived.

1890 had Butch Cassidy, in whose honor a statue was erected in the center of the city, outside of Dubois a ranch. 1914 were eligible for the Wyoming Tie and Timber Company Scandinavian lumberjack to Dubois, which led to the construction of a hotel, a bar and a department store. John Roberts, an Episcopal missionary, founded in 1910, the Church of St. Thomas. The Ramshorn Ranch and Camp Yellowstone Charles Moore built to the west of Dubois 1907, the first of his many dude ranches in the area.

Attractions

• National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center
• Dubois Museum