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Bridger Valley, my home
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By VIRGINIA GIORGIS
Pioneer Editor
vgiorgis@bridgervalleypioneer.com
Bridger Valley, a lush green
valley with rivers running
through it, has three main
townsLyman, Mountain
View and Fort Bridger. Other
communities and the ranching
industry make up the rest of
the Valley.
The Valley takes its name
from an early mountain man
who left his home in the East
as a young man, donned a hat
of adventure and travelled to
the far unsettled west. the Fort
Bridger State Historic Site sits
adjacent to the town of Fort
Bridger and draws world-wide
visitors off of I-80.
In addition to the three
main towns, the communi-
ties calling the Valley home
include McKinnon and Burnt
Fork, Robertson, Carter, Urie,
Lone Tree and Milburne.
These sites form a nucleus
for the surrounding ranching
areas.
The Uinta Mountains line
the horizon south of the Bridg-
er Valley. The southwestern
Wyoming valley, on the north
slope of the Uinta Mountain
Range, sits at the crossroads
of Interstate 80 and Wyoming
Highways 410 and 414. It
serves as one of the primary
entrances to the High Uinta
Mountains and the Wasatch
Cache National Forest where
there is unlimited hunting,
fishing, camping and hun-
dreds of miles of trails for
hiking, mountain biking, cross
country skiing and ATV and
snowmobile riding.
Amenities include a gro-
cery store, gas stations, bowl-
ing alley, banks, restaurants,
appliance store, fast food
places, general merchandise
stores, medical clinics, a the-
ater, hair salons and much
more to serve the needs of the
locals and travelers. Names
such as Shopko and Family
Dollar, Wells Fargo, Pizza Hut
and Taco Time dot the Valley
and testify to the growth of
the Valley.
Much of the Valley is lush
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and green during the hot,
summer months providing
a perfect opportunity for
the areas ranchers to raise
and fine-tune their livestock
its about blood lines,
conformation, bulls that
throw good calves, cows
that mother their calves and
more. The sheep industry is
not as prevalent in the Val-
ley, but there are still some
major producers who are
just as concerned with the
same types of factors, which
affect their animals.
The Valley serves as a
bedroom community for the
Trona Industry in Sweetwa-
ter County. Many families
know what it is for shift
work and the long ride to go
underground at the mines.
Many times graduates
from the Valley schools
return home to raise their
families and to build their
lives after experiencing the
outside world. They return
to the area to stake their
claims, raise their families
and call the Valley home.
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Bridger Valley Pioneer spotlights Valley events
By VIRGINIA GIORGIS
Pioneer Editor
vgiorgis@bridgervalleypioneer.com
The Bridger Valley Pioneer has chronicled
the lives of Bridger Valley residents since its
inception in May 1977. Week after week, the
paper has been on the stands bringing area
news to residents. Many of the surnames
featured today are the same as when the pa-
per first started, but as the Valley has grown,
new names have graced the area.
The paper also serves as a catalyst and
a forum for residents to vent, praise or just
let others know what they think with let-
ters to the editor. Sometimes the page is a
cornucopia of ideas, good and bad.
The Bridger Valley Pioneer has focused
on covering the Valley, its residents, the
growth of the communities, celebrations,
tragedies and all of the other events the
flow through the sands of time and the lives
of the residents. Events such as weddings,
births, military service, schools, deaths and who live here, the Pioneer hopes to help the
much more serves as the historical record area grow and become more prosperous.
of the area. The newspaper also provides an outlet for
The Pioneer promotes Keep it Local to area businesses and residents to advertise
help build and make the Bridger Valley a locally. The local connection and people work-
stronger, more vital place to live and do busi- ing together help to make the area strong.
ness. Success in one area helps build success Accolades for the Pioneer occur almost
in another area. Dollars spent in the area yearly as the paper goes head-to-head with
turn over eight times before being exhausted. the small weeklies at the Wyoming Press As-
By believing in Bridger Valley and the people sociation convention.
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