For years, a single photograph has captivated filmmaker Mark Pedri. It's an image that's displayed at the Rock Springs airport and the local museum, and regularly surfaces on social media.

It shows Amelia Earhart standing in front of an aircraft in 1931 in Rock Springs, surrounded by a crowd of locals eager to catch a glimpse of the famous aviator.

There’s a boy curiously peering in at the camera, a woman gazing admiringly at Earhart and a cross-section of Sweetwater County locals.

"There were the county commissioners, the mayor, the Lions Club president. It was really like a who's who of Sweetwater County,” Pedri told Cowboy State Daily. “Everyone was there to just catch a piece of this magic of who this person was flying cross-country, making this stop in Rock Springs, of all places

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