Saddling a wild horse, ca. 1900. Photo courtesy of the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. Part of the cultural documentation found in Wyoming's Local Legacies projects.

Wyoming

The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress through Public Law 94-201 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife." The Center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library of Congress in 1928, and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world.

Collections

The collections of the American Folklife Center include extensive recordings of American Indian traditions from across the United States. Among its recordings are Northern Arapaho and Shoshone music collected in Wyoming by noted ethnomusicologist Willard Rhodes for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1951.

• Wyoming Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture [full text]

Wyoming participated in the Library's Bicentennial Local Legacies project, which includes documentation of local traditions and celebrations for the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture.

• View Wyoming's Local Legacies projects