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Ernest Brog: Bringing Swiss Cheese To Star Valley, Wyoming, Alexandra Carlile, Adam Callister, Quinn Galbraith
Ernest Brog: Bringing Swiss Cheese To Star Valley, Wyoming, Alexandra Carlile, Adam Callister, Quinn Galbraith
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Star Valley is a small community on the western side of Wyoming,
today consisting of the towns Alpine, Afton, Thayne, and others.
The area, sometimes known as “Little Switzerland,” is a thriving
community with a newfound focus on tourism and other businesses
and services. Star Valley was originally settled by pioneers from the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1870s. At the time
the area was considered the frontier of settlement in the American
West, in which, according to one current Star Valley resident, “people
were just trying to eke out a living.” With harsh winters and …