1978 Map of Lander

About this map

The Wind River Indian Reservation dominates the northern landscape of this region, where the Wind River and Popo Agie River systems carve through the foothills of the Wind River Range. By the late 1970s, the area around Lander and Hudson reflected a complex land-use pattern of traditional ranching, early industrial extraction, and federal conservation within the Shoshone National Forest. The map captures a high-desert environment defined by dramatic topographic shifts at Beaver Rim and the Continental Divide.