When Jim Bridger was a young man, the entire western half of what's now the United States was for lack of a better term a ...

Gold was discovered in Montana in 1862, ushering in a flood of prospectors straight through the heart of Lakota territory on a new road called the Bozeman trail, further straining tensions between ...

Ott Jones' sculpture of Jim Bridger looks west from the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce on South 19th Avenue in Bozeman on Jan. 27, 2015. Bridger, depicted in the Oscar-nominated film "The Revenant," was ...

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Last we knew: In 2004, the Fort Bridger Historical Association commissioned Lander sculptor David Clark to cast a bronze statute of famed mountain man Jim Bridger. The latest: Clark's nearly 9-foot ...

Jim Bridger’s unit 2 has been operating on borrowed time since PacifiCorp blew past a Dec. 31 deadline to install “selective catalytic reduction” controls — a mandate all parties agreed to in 2014.

He assured that the sheriff’s office would “certainly act accordingly” if, or when, the drones pose an imminent harm.

According to a local Wyoming sheriff’s office, unidentified flying objects (UFOs) continue to gather at high altitudes above the Red Desert and the Jim Bridger Power Plant in Sweetwater County.

In 1812, the Bridger family sold the farm and inn and moved west to a farmstead near St. Louis. The town was in its infancy in the early 1800s, but provided a healthy amount of work for Patrick Henry.