English: Title: The Texas Trail Museum, formed in 1986 in a building that was formerly the power plant and firehouse for the town of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming

Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes: Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).; At first it displayed only a few women's furs, dresses and hats, exhibits have since expanded to fill the building and then some. But it grew into a 4.5-acre complex displaying moved and restored country buildings and various agricultural and western apparatus. The museum tells the story of the Texas Trail, along which for two decades in the late 1800s passed a great migration of men and cattle from Texas to replace the fast vanishing buffalo in Wyoming and Montana. The trail entered Wyoming where the town of Pine Bluffs now sits and extended northward through eastern Wyoming, then up the Little Powder River basin into Montana. Most of the early cattle herds driven through Wyoming were used to establish Montana's ranching industry. Eventually, Wyoming cattlemen recognized the value of their own state's grasslands and started ranching there themselves.