photo compliments of "A History of Washakie County"
Henry and Eva Clark came to Worland in 1908 when Mr. Clark purchased a farm east of Worland complete with machinery from Mr. Hadley. They son, Roy Clark, came ahead on the railroad. When he arrived there were no buildings east of what is now the First National Bank Building. There were no trees and it was a very desolate town about the size of Ten Sleep. No schools had been built so the remaining children attended school at the Methodist and Baptist churches. In 1910 Worland had a town pump, board sidewalks, no electric lights, a hitching post, and water trough for the horses. There were no roads and often the mud was so deep as the hub on the buggy. The family spent a great deal of time in the mountains. It would take a day to get to Ten Sleep and than a day to get up the mountains. It was no effort to catch over 100 fish a day for each person fishing. The Clarks had the distinction of having the only horse in the county with a bobbed tail. A coyote had nipped it off while it was grazing in the pasture. Another not so humorous incident was the time Grandmother Clark found a rattlesnake in the middle of the living room. - adapted from "A History of Washakie County"
photo compliments of "A History of Washakie County"