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This blog was updated on a daily basis for about two years, with those daily entries ceasing on December 31, 2013. The blog is still active, however, and we hope that people stopping in, who find something lacking, will add to the daily entries.

The blog still receives new posts as well, but now it receives them on items of Wyoming history. That has always been a feature of the blog, but Wyoming's history is rich and there are many items that are not fully covered here, if covered at all. Over time, we hope to remedy that.

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Saturday, January 19, 2013

January 19

1845  Joseph M. Carey born in Milton Delaware.  He was an 1864 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania College of Law and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1867.  He moved to Wyoming in 1869 and became the first United States Attorney for Wyoming.  He soon served on the Territorial Supreme Court before becoming a Natrona County rancher in 1876.  He entered politics thereafter and became a US Congressman, Senator and Governor of Wyoming.

1859  The screw sloop USS Wyoming launched.  It saw action during the Civil War and in the Far East during the Civil War.  While named Wyoming, it was not named after the state, which of course had not yet been named that.

USS Wyoming in the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits, when she became the first US warship to fire in action in defense of U.S. treaty rights in Japan.

1872  A courthouse in Albany County was completed.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

1896  Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker) released from the State Penitentiary after serving a term for horse theft. Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

1911 Park County organized.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

1912  The  Rt. Rev. Patrick A. McGovern named the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne.

1923  Union Pacific firemen had a dance at the Masonic Temple in Rawlins.

1938  First concrete poured on the construction of Seminoe Dam.

It always surprises me to read of these wintertime concrete efforts. And Seminoe is at pretty high altitude too.

1966  Dick Cheney received his six exemption from the draft, this one being for a married man with dependents.

2017  The District Court in Cheyenne dismissed a lawsuit brought by former Wyoming Representative Gerald Gay of Casper, and Karl Allred, an Evanston resident.  The suit had named Governor Mead, Wyoming Attorney General Michaels and a selection of legislators over allegations over improper granting of contracts for the capitol renovation project. The suit always had a politicized atmosphere to it as Gay was a far right conservative firebrand who went down in defeat in the last election over his comments regarding women, which shocked his own party.  The plaintiffs were further represented by Drake Hill, the husband for former Wyoming Secretary of Education Cindy Hill, who has been a controversial figure.  Hill, following the court's decision, vowed to appeal the ruling.

That's correct.  Just months shy of its 70th Anniversary, SI laid off everyone after failing to pay its licensing fees to the magazine's parent company.

Where I learned of the sad news:

Friday, January 19, 2024

That's a shame.

Print magazines are rapidly becoming dinosaurs, as we all know.  Many of the greats, such as The New Republic, Time or Newsweek, aren't what they once were. For that matter, many don't print at all.  Newsweek, for instance, does not.

Sic transit glori mundi.

My father subscribed to it.  It came to the house, along with Time, Newsweek, People, Life and Look (when there was a Look).  After we perused them, they went down to his office.  I loved Time and Newsweek (People is trash) and I recall pretty vividly observing South Vietnam's fall as I read them, at 12 years old.

I always looked through Sports Illustrated when I was young, although I think the infamous swimsuit issue, which is and was soft pornography, didn't seem to make an appearance at the house, or the office either.  

It was, and is, a great magazine, covering every sport imaginable.

Wyoming teams appeared on the cover more than once.

As an adult, I lost interest in the magazine, although remained a great one when I occasionally viewed it.  A college friend of mine took up giving me their swimsuit calendar every year for a while when I was a college student, with the great model of that era being Kathy Ireland, who had the Kate Upton role of her era.  Interestingly, both Ireland and Upton are devout Christians (Upton has a cross tattoo on her hand), which given their swimsuit issue role is a bit of a surprise, but perhaps no more than the fact that I had those calendars on my walls during those years, and certainly wouldn't now.

As noted, save for its annual descent into cheesecake, it was a great magazine.

Until now, it appears.

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