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Green River Rendezvous
July 8-11, 2010

 

2010 Full Schedule

Green River Rendezvous Days, 2010
At the Museum of the Mountain Man
Phone 367- 4101 for more information


Thursday, July 8th
9:00 - 5:00 Museum of the Mountain Man Gallery & Gift Shop Open
3:00 - 5:00 Michael Terry Plains Indian Encampment
6:00 pm Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal Reception & 2010 Awards
7:30 pm RMFTJ Editor and Featured Speaker: Dr. Fred Gowans
     "Fatal and Hostile Encounters on "Proveu's and Webber's Forks," 1824 - 1825

Friday, July 9th
8:00 - 3:00 "Union Pass: Mountain of Many Waters" Field trip with Steve Banks and Dr. Fred Gowans, reserve with the Museum 367-4101, lunch provided
9:00 - 5:00 Museum of the Mountain Man Gallery & Gift Shop Open
9:00 - 10:00 AMM Demonstrations - Sign Language
9:00 - 10:30 Children's Program with Lapita Frewin
10:30 - Noon Children's Program with Lapita Frewin
11:00 - Noon AMM Demonstrations - Knives/ Tools/ Fire Making
11:00 - 1:30 Michael Terry Plains Indian Encampment
11:00 - 3:00 Buffalo Burger Lunch on the MMM patio
1:00 - 2:00 AMM Demonstrations - Beaver Trapping/ Skinning/ Fur Press
1:00 - 2:15 Children's Program with Lapita Frewin
2:30 - 3:45 Children's Program with Lapita Frewin
3:00 - 4:00 AMM Demonstrations - Mountain Man Clothing
3:30 - 5:00 Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal Guest Speakers
     "Wheels to Rendezvous" by Rick Williams
     "Goggles in the Rocky Mountain West" by Alida Boorn
3:00 - 5:00 Michael Terry Plains Indian Encampment
6:00 pm Eric J. Dolan author of "Fur, Fortune and Empire" Book Signing, Reception and Lecture

Saturday, July 10th
9:00 - 5:00 Museum of the Mountain Man Gallery & Gift Shop Open
9:00 - 11:00 AMM Demonstrations - Horse, tack and packing
9:00 - 11:00 Children's Programs by Lapita Frewin
11:00 am Rendezvous Parade Downtown
11:00 - 3:00 Buffalo Burger Lunch on the MMM patio
Noon - 1:00 AMM Demonstrations - Firearms
1:00 - 3:00 Children's Programs by Lapita Frewin
1:00 - 3:00 Michael Terry Plains Indian Encampment
2:00 - 3:00 AMM Demonstrations - Knives/ tools/ fire making
2:00 - 5:00 Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal Guest Speakers
     "Was Meriwether Lewis the Godfather of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade?" by Thomas Danisi and John Jackson
     "Painting the Fur Trade" An Artist's Perception" by Tim Tanner
     "Going Indian" by Clay Landry
     "Warren Ferris, the Hudson's Bay Company and the Rendezvous of 1834" by Scott Walker
3:30 - 5:00 Michael Terry Plains Indian Encampment
4:00 - 5:00 AMM Demonstrations - Beaver Trapping/ skinning/ fur press
8:00 pm AMM Campfire Stories and Songs

Sunday, July 11th
9:00 - 5:00 Museum of the Mountain Man Gallery and Gift Shop Open
9:00 - 10:00 AMM Demonstrations - Sign Language
10:00 - Noon Michael Terry Plains Indian Encampment
10:00 - 11:00 AMM Demonstrations - Horses/ tack/ packing
11:00 - Noon AMM Demonstrations - Mountain Man Clothing
1:00 pm Green River Rendezvous Pageant at the Rodeo Grounds
2:30 - 4:00 Michael Terry Plains Indian Encampment

Locations:
All Journal/ Forum events held at the north lawn grandstand
All AMM demonstrations held at the north amphitheater
All Michael Terry events held at the east area canopy
All Children's programs held at the east area/ adjacent to Michael Terry


Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal & Forum, The fourth annual Journal introduced with lectures by authors and discussion panels. Thursday evening will be a special reception and journal signing. Books will be available for purchase.

Dr. Fred Gowans, "Historian in Residence" for the Museum will give a lecture Thursday evening.

Michael Terry
, Native American Historian and Ethnologist, Plains Indian Encampment. His lectures are FREE to the public and give an overview of life of the Plains Indians in the 1800s.

Lapita Frewin
, heads up our Children's Programs with morning and afternoon sessions, free to all kids.

The American Mountain Men
Trapper's camp, north of the Museum at the amphitheater. Live lectures and demonstrations throughout Rendezvous weekend will include firearms, sign language, beaver trapping, clothes, tools, fire making, horse tack, packing, and stories & songs.

Friday & Saturday: Buffalo Burger Lunch Presented by the Sublette County Historical Society Board, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Museum.

Museum Gallery & Gift Shop Open 9 am to 5 pm, and in the evening during Rendezvous.

The Sublette County Chamber of Commerce Rendezvous Parade is held on Saturday morning at 11:00 am down main street in Pinedale. The Green River Rendezvous Pageant is on Sunday at 1:00 pm at the Rendezvous Grounds just south of Pinedale adjacent to the rodeo grounds.

As part of Pinedale's Green River Rendezvous weekend, the Society and Museum are excited to offer a variety of great programs for 2010. For other weekend events see the Pinedale Online Rendezvous Calendar and the Green River Rendezvous Pageant website.

 
 

 

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