Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Dubois, WY

Dubois, pronounced DOO-boyz, is a town in Fremont County, Wyoming, and its population was 911 at the 2020 census.

Dubois was incorporated in 1914.

The original residents wanted to name the town Tibo, after the Shoshone language word for stranger or white man, but Governor Joseph M. Carey chose Dubois after his friend Fred Dubois, an Idaho senator at the time, and the citizens rejected the French pronunciation of deh-bwah.

The first occupants of the mountains and valleys around Dubois were the Sheepeaters, a group of Mountain Shoshone, whose petroglyphs, hunting traps and blinds, and stone tepee circles remain in the area.

Butch Cassidy owned and managed a ranch on the outskirts of Dubois beginning in 1890, and a statue erected in the center of Dubois is modeled after him, while Welty's General Store, which he frequented, is still in operation.

Charles Moore built the first of many dude ranches in the area, Ramshorn Ranch and Camp Yellowstone, at the mouth of DuNoir Creek west of Dubois in 1907.

St. Thomas Episcopal Church was founded in 1910 by Reverend John Roberts, an Episcopal missionary who served the Native American tribes on the Wind River.

Scandinavian lumber workers brought by the Wyoming Tie and Timber Company cut logs into railroad ties and sent them via wood flumes to the Wind River, where they floated about 70 miles east to Riverton for processing.

On December 30, 2014, a downtown fire destroyed approximately half a block while air temperatures hovered near minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit, with wind chills around 50 below zero.

The National Museum of Military Vehicles opened southeast of Dubois in August 2020; the privately funded 100-million-dollar museum contains 500 fully restored military vehicles, artillery pieces, naval vessels, and aircraft dating from 1897 to the present.