ROCK SPRINGS — An annual depression-era celebration in Rock Springs was on par with Cheyenne’s Frontier Days, according to the Sweetwater County Historical Museum.

A Facebook post of a commemorative coin prompted several calls to the museum asking for more information. The coin bore the image of a Native American on one side; on the other was a depiction of a covered wagon, a figure on horseback, and the inscription “ROCK SPRINGS WYO DAYS OF ‘58 • SEPT 1-2 • 1933.”

The “Days of ‘58″ celebration in 1933 coincided with Labor Day and commemorated what it declared to be the 75th anniversary of the founding of Rock Springs in 1858. That date is challenged as most historians believe the founding actually took place in 1862, when Ben Holladay established his Overland Trail Stage Line route and

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