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History: Wyoming’s Own ‘Snowshoe Thompson’
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History: Wyoming’s Own ‘Snowshoe Thompson’
In the late 1950s, country singer Johnny Horton sang about ‘Snowshoe Thompson,” who carried mail in the Sierra Mountains. The song was based on real-life John Albert Thompson, born Jon Torsteinsson Rue. Thompson was an early resident in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Nevada and California. He is considered to be the father of California skiing. In the mid-1850s and into the 1870s, he delivered the mail between Placerville, California and Genoa, …
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