Point of Rocks

Bitter Creek winds west through the dry basin east of the Green River. Sandstone cliffs frame parts of its valley, a route across the open country of southwestern Wyoming. The wider Green River region was Shoshone homeland, where people travelled between hunting grounds and met other communities to exchange goods. In the 1820s, fur traders began holding gatherings on the Green and its tributaries, bringing their commerce into a country already connected by Indigenous trade.