My Mother's Story, 1897

Coyote Springs is a wide spot on Highway 30 in the south-central part Wyoming. My father, Andrew R. Anderson, and my grandfather, Andrew B. Anderson,homesteaded there in the early 1930s. My mother, Gertrude, followed Dad there and set up housekeeping in a one-room log shack. Dad built a filling station next to the highway. He ran it until his death in 1953. Mom took over the business until turning it over to my brothers. She lived there until she died in 1994. This is their story, as well as of their parents and families, all of whom emigrated from Sweden in the late 1800s.They settled in Carbon County in the mining town of Carbon itself and in the settlement of Elk Mountain.