Hudson, Wyoming, situated between Lander and Riverton, had a reputation as one of the wildest towns in the region. From its founding in 1906 and late into the 1960s, it was known as the place to go for a good time.

Founded as a coal mining town, Hudson grew quickly over the next two decades and attracted mostly single men who worked and played hard. When Prohibition struck in 1919, the action literally went underground, although the bars only advertised "soft drinks."

In an interview in the 1990s with Mark Junge, longtime resident Sophie Svilar recalled the pandemonium of those early days when several wagon mines and a couple of big mines attracted men from all over the world.

“At one time, there were 700 coal miners here,” Svilar said. “My folks ran a boarding house, and mama had a

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