Western Heritage

Map Located on the Green River in Brown's Park, historic Jarvie Ranch provides a glimpse of turn-of-the-century frontier life in what is still a remote part of the West.

Map Wild and dangerous, romantic and adventurous, the American West is for most people today an almost mythological world, one separated from ours by time, technology, and civilization. Yet, for Josie Bassett Morris, the Wild West was a stark reality. Josie lived most of her 90 years of life in this austere, yet beautiful, landscape in a time simpler than today, when people depended directly on the bounty of the land for survival and "neighbors" for companionship.

Map Visit a ranch that was the result of the Forest Homestead Act of 1906.