"Franklin Edmond Riggan left for Texas when he was a young man of about 15 years. He drove cattle from Texas to both Wyoming and Montana until about 1870. He then probably worked for a large cattle outfit until 1872 or 1873 possibly on the Laramie Plains. He wound up in Utah in Juab County where he owned land. He married a girl from England in 1876. His actual movements from 1870 to 1876 are not known. The above is just an educated guess.
Franklin left Utah in about 1883 for the gold fields of North Central Idaho and settled in a town or mining camp called Clayton on the Salmon River. I don't believe he actually mined for gold. He was a maker of charcoal. Later he moved to Nicola, a gold camp at the head of the Lemhi where he continued to make charcoal. His name is on a placque by the charcoal kilns there.
He left the gold camps about 1888 with his family and settled in Teton City, Idaho, where they built a hotel and livery stable. He and his son, Edmond Frank, ran the mail and stage line from St. Anthony, the end of the railroad, to Victor, Idaho, in Teton Basin (earlier named Peirues Hole.) This was where freight and mail arrived for Jackson Hole. They ran many horses on the Teton River and Canyon Creek. They need lots of stock as they changed teams three times on the run.
On the Teton River lived Beaver Dick Lee, the mountain man, his Native American wife and children. Franklin's son, Edmond Franklin went to school with the Lee children.
The hotel and farm burned down and a brick home was built in its place where Franklin and his wife lived their remaining years.
Franklin died in Los Angeles, California, while visiting at the home of his daughter, Florence. His body was returned to Teton City and funeral services were held at the Mormon Church there. He was buried in the Teton cemetery beside his wife who had died in January of the previous year.
Story from Garl Riggan, grandson of Franklin Edmond Riggan.
Franklin left Utah in about 1883 for the gold fields of North Central Idaho and settled in a town or mining camp called Clayton on the Salmon River. I don't believe he actually mined for gold. He was a maker of charcoal. Later he moved to Nicola, a gold camp at the head of the Lemhi where he continued to make charcoal. His name is on a placque by the charcoal kilns there.
He left the gold camps about 1888 with his family and settled in Teton City, Idaho, where they built a hotel and livery stable. He and his son, Edmond Frank, ran the mail and stage line from St. Anthony, the end of the railroad, to Victor, Idaho, in Teton Basin (earlier named Peirues Hole.) This was where freight and mail arrived for Jackson Hole. They ran many horses on the Teton River and Canyon Creek. They need lots of stock as they changed teams three times on the run.
On the Teton River lived Beaver Dick Lee, the mountain man, his Native American wife and children. Franklin's son, Edmond Franklin went to school with the Lee children.
The hotel and farm burned down and a brick home was built in its place where Franklin and his wife lived their remaining years.
Franklin died in Los Angeles, California, while visiting at the home of his daughter, Florence. His body was returned to Teton City and funeral services were held at the Mormon Church there. He was buried in the Teton cemetery beside his wife who had died in January of the previous year.
Story from Garl Riggan, grandson of Franklin Edmond Riggan.
"Franklin Edmond Riggan left for Texas when he was a young man of about 15 years. He drove cattle from Texas to both Wyoming and Montana until about 1870. He then probably worked for a large cattle outfit until 1872 or 1873 possibly on the Laramie Plains. He wound up in Utah in Juab County where he owned land. He married a girl from England in 1876. His actual movements from 1870 to 1876 are not known. The above is just an educated guess.
Franklin left Utah in about 1883 for the gold fields of North Central Idaho and settled in a town or mining camp called Clayton on the Salmon River. I don't believe he actually mined for gold. He was a maker of charcoal. Later he moved to Nicola, a gold camp at the head of the Lemhi where he continued to make charcoal. His name is on a placque by the charcoal kilns there.
He left the gold camps about 1888 with his family and settled in Teton City, Idaho, where they built a hotel and livery stable. He and his son, Edmond Frank, ran the mail and stage line from St. Anthony, the end of the railroad, to Victor, Idaho, in Teton Basin (earlier named Peirues Hole.) This was where freight and mail arrived for Jackson Hole. They ran many horses on the Teton River and Canyon Creek. They need lots of stock as they changed teams three times on the run.
On the Teton River lived Beaver Dick Lee, the mountain man, his Native American wife and children. Franklin's son, Edmond Franklin went to school with the Lee children.
The hotel and farm burned down and a brick home was built in its place where Franklin and his wife lived their remaining years.
Franklin died in Los Angeles, California, while visiting at the home of his daughter, Florence. His body was returned to Teton City and funeral services were held at the Mormon Church there. He was buried in the Teton cemetery beside his wife who had died in January of the previous year.
Story from Garl Riggan, grandson of Franklin Edmond Riggan.
Franklin left Utah in about 1883 for the gold fields of North Central Idaho and settled in a town or mining camp called Clayton on the Salmon River. I don't believe he actually mined for gold. He was a maker of charcoal. Later he moved to Nicola, a gold camp at the head of the Lemhi where he continued to make charcoal. His name is on a placque by the charcoal kilns there.
He left the gold camps about 1888 with his family and settled in Teton City, Idaho, where they built a hotel and livery stable. He and his son, Edmond Frank, ran the mail and stage line from St. Anthony, the end of the railroad, to Victor, Idaho, in Teton Basin (earlier named Peirues Hole.) This was where freight and mail arrived for Jackson Hole. They ran many horses on the Teton River and Canyon Creek. They need lots of stock as they changed teams three times on the run.
On the Teton River lived Beaver Dick Lee, the mountain man, his Native American wife and children. Franklin's son, Edmond Franklin went to school with the Lee children.
The hotel and farm burned down and a brick home was built in its place where Franklin and his wife lived their remaining years.
Franklin died in Los Angeles, California, while visiting at the home of his daughter, Florence. His body was returned to Teton City and funeral services were held at the Mormon Church there. He was buried in the Teton cemetery beside his wife who had died in January of the previous year.
Story from Garl Riggan, grandson of Franklin Edmond Riggan.
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