Hans Kleiber was born August 24, 1887 while his parents were traveling in Germany. When he was just a few months old the family returned to Jaegersdorf, their ancestral home.
Hans Kleiber and his family, consisting of his parents and a younger sister, came to the United States from Austria in 1900 when Hans was not quite 13 year old, and since his father’s profession was that of a textile expert and designer, they settled in Webster, Massachusetts, a typical New England milltown of those days.
Before coming to America Hans had read every book he could get hold of on Pioneer Life in North America. “The Leather-stocking Tales” by James Fenimore Cooper, then the stories of the Forty-Niners, were his favorites. Along with their descriptions of the vast forests and plains from the Alleghenies to the west, which to a great extent was still known as the “Great American Desert’ to the Europeans, all were very fascinating to him.
While attending school in Webster, he subscribed to Collier’s Weekly because along with it he was to have in color six reproductions of Frederick Remington’s painting of life in the far west. Finally with his love for whatever the out-of-doors with its forests and mountains had to offer mankind, the young immigrant came to Wyoming in 1907. He came to the Big Horns, getting his first job in a lumber camp at Woodrock at the head of Tongue River.
In 1918 he was sent to Clearwater River county in Idaho to aid in putting out a huge fire burning over the Western White Pine belt in that area. From that time through 1923 he was in the field for the Forest Service from the International Boundary in Minnesota to the eastern parts of Washington as well as an extended duty in the Wind River Mountains.
In 1923 he resigned from the Forest Service and came home to Dayton, bought himself paints and brushes and went to work. Because he has interpreted the wilderness with a loving, skillful hand for a country that is fast forgetting nature, he has never ceased to be of service to forests.
A book put out by two of his friends, Emmie Mygatt and Roberta Cheney, entitled Artist of the Bighorn Mountains clearly gives an idea of his great work in paintings and etchings.
Mr. Kleiber died on December 8, 1967. Mrs. Kleiber, the former Margaret Duff, affectionately known as “Missy,” died shortly after on January 16, 1968. Both are buried in the city cemetery adjoining his home and studio at Dayton. The markers (of native stone) have Han’s epitaph as he signed his art work.
A critic once call him “Etcher Laureate of the Big Horns.” Hans’ two children by a former marriage are Stuart and Rita, who were reared by his mother and father and went to school in Dayton. Stuart and his wife come to Dayton every summer to keep open to the public his home and studio. (Note: story written in 1983.)
(Story written by Lillian Kane as published in the Sheridan County Heritage Book published in 1983 with permission from the Sheridan County Extension Homemakers Council.)
Hans Kleiber and his family, consisting of his parents and a younger sister, came to the United States from Austria in 1900 when Hans was not quite 13 year old, and since his father’s profession was that of a textile expert and designer, they settled in Webster, Massachusetts, a typical New England milltown of those days.
Before coming to America Hans had read every book he could get hold of on Pioneer Life in North America. “The Leather-stocking Tales” by James Fenimore Cooper, then the stories of the Forty-Niners, were his favorites. Along with their descriptions of the vast forests and plains from the Alleghenies to the west, which to a great extent was still known as the “Great American Desert’ to the Europeans, all were very fascinating to him.
While attending school in Webster, he subscribed to Collier’s Weekly because along with it he was to have in color six reproductions of Frederick Remington’s painting of life in the far west. Finally with his love for whatever the out-of-doors with its forests and mountains had to offer mankind, the young immigrant came to Wyoming in 1907. He came to the Big Horns, getting his first job in a lumber camp at Woodrock at the head of Tongue River.
In 1918 he was sent to Clearwater River county in Idaho to aid in putting out a huge fire burning over the Western White Pine belt in that area. From that time through 1923 he was in the field for the Forest Service from the International Boundary in Minnesota to the eastern parts of Washington as well as an extended duty in the Wind River Mountains.
In 1923 he resigned from the Forest Service and came home to Dayton, bought himself paints and brushes and went to work. Because he has interpreted the wilderness with a loving, skillful hand for a country that is fast forgetting nature, he has never ceased to be of service to forests.
A book put out by two of his friends, Emmie Mygatt and Roberta Cheney, entitled Artist of the Bighorn Mountains clearly gives an idea of his great work in paintings and etchings.
Mr. Kleiber died on December 8, 1967. Mrs. Kleiber, the former Margaret Duff, affectionately known as “Missy,” died shortly after on January 16, 1968. Both are buried in the city cemetery adjoining his home and studio at Dayton. The markers (of native stone) have Han’s epitaph as he signed his art work.
A critic once call him “Etcher Laureate of the Big Horns.” Hans’ two children by a former marriage are Stuart and Rita, who were reared by his mother and father and went to school in Dayton. Stuart and his wife come to Dayton every summer to keep open to the public his home and studio. (Note: story written in 1983.)
(Story written by Lillian Kane as published in the Sheridan County Heritage Book published in 1983 with permission from the Sheridan County Extension Homemakers Council.)
Hans Kleiber was born August 24, 1887 while his parents were traveling in Germany. When he was just a few months old the family returned to Jaegersdorf, their ancestral home.
Hans Kleiber and his family, consisting of his parents and a younger sister, came to the United States from Austria in 1900 when Hans was not quite 13 year old, and since his father’s profession was that of a textile expert and designer, they settled in Webster, Massachusetts, a typical New England milltown of those days.
Before coming to America Hans had read every book he could get hold of on Pioneer Life in North America. “The Leather-stocking Tales” by James Fenimore Cooper, then the stories of the Forty-Niners, were his favorites. Along with their descriptions of the vast forests and plains from the Alleghenies to the west, which to a great extent was still known as the “Great American Desert’ to the Europeans, all were very fascinating to him.
While attending school in Webster, he subscribed to Collier’s Weekly because along with it he was to have in color six reproductions of Frederick Remington’s painting of life in the far west. Finally with his love for whatever the out-of-doors with its forests and mountains had to offer mankind, the young immigrant came to Wyoming in 1907. He came to the Big Horns, getting his first job in a lumber camp at Woodrock at the head of Tongue River.
In 1918 he was sent to Clearwater River county in Idaho to aid in putting out a huge fire burning over the Western White Pine belt in that area. From that time through 1923 he was in the field for the Forest Service from the International Boundary in Minnesota to the eastern parts of Washington as well as an extended duty in the Wind River Mountains.
In 1923 he resigned from the Forest Service and came home to Dayton, bought himself paints and brushes and went to work. Because he has interpreted the wilderness with a loving, skillful hand for a country that is fast forgetting nature, he has never ceased to be of service to forests.
A book put out by two of his friends, Emmie Mygatt and Roberta Cheney, entitled Artist of the Bighorn Mountains clearly gives an idea of his great work in paintings and etchings.
Mr. Kleiber died on December 8, 1967. Mrs. Kleiber, the former Margaret Duff, affectionately known as “Missy,” died shortly after on January 16, 1968. Both are buried in the city cemetery adjoining his home and studio at Dayton. The markers (of native stone) have Han’s epitaph as he signed his art work.
A critic once call him “Etcher Laureate of the Big Horns.” Hans’ two children by a former marriage are Stuart and Rita, who were reared by his mother and father and went to school in Dayton. Stuart and his wife come to Dayton every summer to keep open to the public his home and studio. (Note: story written in 1983.)
(Story written by Lillian Kane as published in the Sheridan County Heritage Book published in 1983 with permission from the Sheridan County Extension Homemakers Council.)
Hans Kleiber and his family, consisting of his parents and a younger sister, came to the United States from Austria in 1900 when Hans was not quite 13 year old, and since his father’s profession was that of a textile expert and designer, they settled in Webster, Massachusetts, a typical New England milltown of those days.
Before coming to America Hans had read every book he could get hold of on Pioneer Life in North America. “The Leather-stocking Tales” by James Fenimore Cooper, then the stories of the Forty-Niners, were his favorites. Along with their descriptions of the vast forests and plains from the Alleghenies to the west, which to a great extent was still known as the “Great American Desert’ to the Europeans, all were very fascinating to him.
While attending school in Webster, he subscribed to Collier’s Weekly because along with it he was to have in color six reproductions of Frederick Remington’s painting of life in the far west. Finally with his love for whatever the out-of-doors with its forests and mountains had to offer mankind, the young immigrant came to Wyoming in 1907. He came to the Big Horns, getting his first job in a lumber camp at Woodrock at the head of Tongue River.
In 1918 he was sent to Clearwater River county in Idaho to aid in putting out a huge fire burning over the Western White Pine belt in that area. From that time through 1923 he was in the field for the Forest Service from the International Boundary in Minnesota to the eastern parts of Washington as well as an extended duty in the Wind River Mountains.
In 1923 he resigned from the Forest Service and came home to Dayton, bought himself paints and brushes and went to work. Because he has interpreted the wilderness with a loving, skillful hand for a country that is fast forgetting nature, he has never ceased to be of service to forests.
A book put out by two of his friends, Emmie Mygatt and Roberta Cheney, entitled Artist of the Bighorn Mountains clearly gives an idea of his great work in paintings and etchings.
Mr. Kleiber died on December 8, 1967. Mrs. Kleiber, the former Margaret Duff, affectionately known as “Missy,” died shortly after on January 16, 1968. Both are buried in the city cemetery adjoining his home and studio at Dayton. The markers (of native stone) have Han’s epitaph as he signed his art work.
A critic once call him “Etcher Laureate of the Big Horns.” Hans’ two children by a former marriage are Stuart and Rita, who were reared by his mother and father and went to school in Dayton. Stuart and his wife come to Dayton every summer to keep open to the public his home and studio. (Note: story written in 1983.)
(Story written by Lillian Kane as published in the Sheridan County Heritage Book published in 1983 with permission from the Sheridan County Extension Homemakers Council.)
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