Top 10 True Western Towns of 2013

#7 Pinedale, Wyoming It’s hard to say just exactly when Pinedale got started. American Indians, of course, lived in the region for millennia. Mountain men started trickling into the area in the first decades of the 1800s, drawn by the hope of easy money to be made in the fur trade. But the community didn’t truly take off until the latter years of the 19th century, when settlers like Charles Petersen and his family moved into what was then called the Pine Creek Flat area. Before long, the i