tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33782110501013541212024-03-17T21:02:52.248-06:00Today In Wyoming's HistoryPat Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05085914852278228313noreply@blogger.comBlogger1005125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-35244398945328894292024-03-08T03:59:00.001-07:002024-03-08T03:59:39.858-07:00Entry Updates, 2024.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJDhElq9-L4NikiOe4s5eb8WiIT84op8HoGM-YpaBxNy56PkOsQta8zFR5r90hBvT5jbiXsUND5mc3eX8C_N7Qd5RLixCfolgFtK6zPSSdkvwRylWFOPG5lWcSrNljZcNeqzP_ywXC2-kidONRLHbqRl17TwuKa_n4_Wfez8dudwPXhHeUrORnTfEq0aA/s1024/wcj4frce1dyb1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJDhElq9-L4NikiOe4s5eb8WiIT84op8HoGM-YpaBxNy56PkOsQta8zFR5r90hBvT5jbiXsUND5mc3eX8C_N7Qd5RLixCfolgFtK6zPSSdkvwRylWFOPG5lWcSrNljZcNeqzP_ywXC2-kidONRLHbqRl17TwuKa_n4_Wfez8dudwPXhHeUrORnTfEq0aA/s16000/wcj4frce1dyb1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-19.html" target="_blank">January 19, 2024. End of Sports Illustrated.</a><p></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-20.html" target="_blank">January 20, 1924. Sheridan County Sheriff's removal.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-24.html" target="_blank">January 24, 1924. Teapot Dome Scandal breaks.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-24.html" target="_blank">January 24, 1944. Rendering skunk fat.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-28.html" target="_blank">January 28, 1924. Teapot Dome Scandal</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-28.html" target="_blank">January 28, 1944. Cold War warning.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-28.html" target="_blank">January 28, 2014. Hill decision and Barack Obama State of the Union address.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-2.html" target="_blank">February 2, 1924. Gun battle at Lysite and the Teapot Dome Scandal.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-5.html" target="_blank">February 5, 1924. Additional details on the death of Carey, update on Wilson.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-8.html" target="_blank">February 8, 1924. The Teapot Dome Scandal.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-9.html" target="_blank">February 9, 1944 Gambling and vice in Casper.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-10.html" target="_blank">February 10, 1944. Troops at Ft. F.E. Warren.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-12.html" target="_blank">February 12, 2024. State of the State and State of the Judiciary.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-13.html" target="_blank">February 13, 1924. Police corruption in Casper.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-16.html" target="_blank">February 16, 1944. Senator Mahoney predicts early end to war.</a></p><p><a href="2024. President Biden delivered the 2024 State of the Union Address. The United States Capitol Good evening. Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Members of Congress. My Fellow Americans. In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation. He said, “I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.” Hitler was on the march. War was raging in Europe. President Roosevelt’s purpose was to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this was no ordinary moment. Freedom and democracy were under assault in the world. Tonight I come to the same chamber to address the nation. Now it is we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union. And yes, my purpose tonight is to both wake up this Congress, and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either. Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today. What makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas, at the very same time. Overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond. If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you, he will not. But Ukraine can stop Putin if we stand with Ukraine and provide the weapons it needs to defend itself. That is all Ukraine is asking. They are not asking for American soldiers. In fact, there are no American soldiers at war in Ukraine. And I am determined to keep it that way. But now assistance for Ukraine is being blocked by those who want us to walk away from our leadership in the world. It wasn’t that long ago when a Republican President, Ronald Reagan, thundered, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Now, my predecessor, a former Republican President, tells Putin, “Do whatever the hell you want.” A former American President actually said that, bowing down to a Russian leader. It’s outrageous. It’s dangerous. It’s unacceptable. America is a founding member of NATO the military alliance of democratic nations created after World War II to prevent war and keep the peace. Today, we’ve made NATO stronger than ever. We welcomed Finland to the Alliance last year, and just this morning, Sweden officially joined NATO, and their Prime Minister is here tonight. Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to NATO, the strongest military alliance the world has ever known. I say this to Congress: we must stand up to Putin. Send me the Bipartisan National Security Bill. History is watching. If the United States walks away now, it will put Ukraine at risk. Europe at risk. The free world at risk, emboldening others who wish to do us harm. My message to President Putin is simple. We will not walk away. We will not bow down. I will not bow down. History is watching, just like history watched three years ago on January 6th. Insurrectionists stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger at the throat of American democracy. Many of you were here on that darkest of days. We all saw with our own eyes these insurrectionists were not patriots. They had come to stop the peaceful transfer of power and to overturn the will of the people. January 6th and the lies about the 2020 election, and the plots to steal the election, posed the gravest threat to our democracy since the Civil War. But they failed. America stood strong and democracy prevailed. But we must be honest the threat remains and democracy must be defended. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth of January 6th. I will not do that. This is a moment to speak the truth and bury the lies. And here’s the simplest truth. You can’t love your country only when you win. As I’ve done ever since being elected to office, I ask you all, without regard to party, to join together and defend our democracy! Remember your oath of office to defend against all threats foreign and domestic. Respect free and fair elections! Restore trust in our institutions! And make clear –political violence has absolutely no place in America! History is watching. And history is watching another assault on freedom. Joining us tonight is Latorya Beasley, a social worker from Birmingham, Alabama. 14 months ago tonight, she and her husband welcomed a baby girl thanks to the miracle of IVF. She scheduled treatments to have a second child, but the Alabama Supreme Court shut down IVF treatments across the state, unleashed by the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. She was told her dream would have to wait. What her family has gone through should never have happened. And unless Congress acts, it could happen again. So tonight, let’s stand up for families like hers! To my friends across the aisle, don’t keep families waiting any longer. Guarantee the right to IVF nationwide! Like most Americans, I believe Roe v. Wade got it right. And I thank Vice President Harris for being an incredible leader, defending reproductive freedom and so much more. But my predecessor came to office determined to see Roe v. Wade overturned. He’s the reason it was overturned. In fact, he brags about it. Look at the chaos that has resulted. Joining us tonight is Kate Cox, a wife and mother from Dallas. When she became pregnant again, the fetus had a fatal condition. Her doctors told Kate that her own life and her ability to have children in the future were at risk if she didn’t act. Because Texas law banned abortion, Kate and her husband had to leave the state to get the care she needed. What her family has gone through should never have happened as well. But it is happening to so many others. There are state laws banning the right to choose, criminalizing doctors, and forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states as well to get the care they need. Many of you in this Chamber and my predecessor are promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom. My God, what freedoms will you take away next? In its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court majority wrote, “Women are not without – electoral or political power.” No kidding. Clearly, those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women in America. They found out though when reproductive freedom was on the ballot and won in 2022, 2023, and they will find out again, in 2024. If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again! America cannot go back. I am here tonight to show the way forward. Because I know how far we’ve come. Four years ago next week, before I came to office, our country was hit by the worst pandemic and the worst economic crisis in a century. Remember the fear. Record job losses. Remember the spike in crime. And the murder rate. A raging virus that would take more than 1 million American lives and leave millions of loved ones behind. A mental health crisis of isolation and loneliness. A president, my predecessor, who failed the most basic duty. Any President owes the American people the duty to care. That is unforgivable. I came to office determined to get us through one of the toughest periods in our nation’s history. And we have. It doesn’t make the news but in thousands of cities and towns the American people are writing the greatest comeback story never told. So let’s tell that story here and now. America’s comeback is building a future of American possibilities, building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down, investing in all of America, in all Americans to make sure everyone has a fair shot and we leave no one behind! The pandemic no longer controls our lives. The vaccines that saved us from COVID are now being used to help beat cancer. Turning setback into comeback. That’s America! I inherited an economy that was on the brink. Now our economy is the envy of the world! 15 million new jobs in just three years – that’s a record! Unemployment at 50-year lows. A record 16 million Americans are starting small businesses and each one is an act of hope. With historic job growth and small business growth for Black, Hispanic, and Asian-Americans. 800,000 new manufacturing jobs in America and counting. More people have health insurance today than ever before. The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years. Wages keep going up and inflation keeps coming down! Inflation has dropped from 9% to 3% – the lowest in the world! And trending lower. And now instead of importing foreign products and exporting American jobs, we’re exporting American products and creating American jobs – right here in America where they belong! And the American people are beginning to feel it. Consumer studies show consumer confidence is soaring. Buy American has been the law of the land since the 1930s. Past administrations including my predecessor failed to Buy American. Not any more. On my watch, federal projects like helping to build American roads bridges and highways will be made with American products built by American workers creating good-paying American jobs! Thanks to my Chips and Science Act the United States is investing more in research and development than ever before. During the pandemic a shortage of semiconductor chips drove up prices for everything from cell phones to automobiles. Well instead of having to import semiconductor chips, which America invented I might add, private companies are now investing billions of dollars to build new chip factories here in America! Creating tens of thousands of jobs many of them paying over $100,000 a year and don’t require a college degree. In fact my policies have attracted $650 Billion of private sector investments in clean energy and advanced manufacturing creating tens of thousands of jobs here in America! Thanks to our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 46,000 new projects have been announced across your communities – modernizing our roads and bridges, ports and airports, and public transit systems. Removing poisonous lead pipes so every child can drink clean water without risk of getting brain damage. Providing affordable high speed internet for every American no matter where you live. Urban, suburban, and rural communities — in red states and blue. Record investments in tribal communities. Because of my investments, family farms are better be able to stay in the family and children and grandchildren won’t have to leave home to make a living. It’s transformative. A great comeback story is Belvidere, Illinois. Home to an auto plant for nearly 60 years. Before I came to office the plant was on its way to shutting down. Thousands of workers feared for their livelihoods. Hope was fading. Then I was elected to office and we raised Belvidere repeatedly with the auto company knowing unions make all the difference. The UAW worked like hell to keep the plant open and get those jobs back. And together, we succeeded! Instead of an auto factory shutting down an auto factory is re-opening and a new state-of-the art battery factory is being built to power those cars. Instead of a town being left behind it’s a community moving forward again! Because instead of watching auto jobs of the future go overseas 4,000 union workers with higher wages will be building that future, in Belvidere, here in America! Here tonight is UAW President, Shawn Fain, a great friend, and a great labor leader. And Dawn Simms, a third generation UAW worker in Belvidere. Shawn, I was proud to be the first President in American history to walk a picket line. And today Dawn has a job in her hometown providing stability for her family and pride and dignity. Showing once again, Wall Street didn’t build this country! The middle class built this country! And unions built the middle class! When Americans get knocked down, we get back up! We keep going! That’s America! That’s you, the American people! It’s because of you America is coming back! It’s because of you, our future is brighter! And it’s because of you that tonight we can proudly say the State of our Union is strong and getting stronger! Tonight I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together. A future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and biggest corporations no longer get all the breaks. I grew up in a home where not a lot trickled down on my Dad’s kitchen table. That’s why I’m determined to turn things around so the middle class does well the poor have a way up and the wealthy still does well. We all do well. And there’s more to do to make sure you’re feeling the benefits of all we’re doing. Americans pay more for prescription drugs than anywhere else. It’s wrong and I’m ending it. With a law I proposed and signed and not one Republican voted for we finally beat Big Pharma! Instead of paying $400 a month for insulin seniors with diabetes only have to pay $35 a month! And now I want to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for every American who needs it! For years people have talked about it but I finally got it done and gave Medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs just like the VA does for our veterans. That’s not just saving seniors money. It’s saving taxpayers money cutting the federal deficit by $160 Billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay exorbitant prices to Big Pharma. This year Medicare is negotiating lower prices for some of the costliest drugs on the market that treat everything from heart disease to arthritis. Now it’s time to go further and give Medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for 500 drugs over the next decade. That will not only save lives it will save taxpayers another $200 Billion! Starting next year that same law caps total prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare at $2,000 a year even for expensive cancer drugs that can cost $10,000, $12,000, $15,000 a year. Now I want to cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 a year for everyone! Folks Obamacare, known as the Affordable Care Act is still a very big deal. Over one hundred million of you can no longer be denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions. But my predecessor and many in this chamber want to take that protection away by repealing the Affordable Care Act I won’t let that happen! We stopped you 50 times before and we will stop you again! In fact I am protecting it and expanding it. I enacted tax credits that save $800 per person per year reducing health care premiums for millions of working families. Those tax credits expire next year. I want to make those savings permanent! Women are more than half of our population but research on women’s health has always been underfunded. That’s why we’re launching the first-ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, led by Jill who is doing an incredible job as First Lady. Pass my plan for $12 Billion to transform women’s health research and benefit millions of lives across America! I know the cost of housing is so important to you. If inflation keeps coming down mortgage rates will come down as well. But I’m not waiting. I want to provide an annual tax creditthat will give Americans $400 a month for the next two years as mortgage rates come down to put toward their mortgage when they buy a first home or trade up for a little more space. My Administration is also eliminating title insurance fees for federally backed mortgages. When you refinance your home this can save you $1,000 or more. For millions of renters, we’re cracking down on big landlords who break antitrust laws by price-fixing and driving up rents. I’ve cut red tape so more builders can get federal financing, which is already helping build a record 1.7 million housing units nationwide. Now pass my plan to build and renovate 2 million affordable homes and bring those rents down! To remain the strongest economy in the world we need the best education system in the world. I want to give every child a good start by providing access to pre-school for 3- and 4-year-olds. Studies show that children who go to pre-school are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a 2- or 4-year degree no matter their background. I want to expand high-quality tutoring and summer learning time and see to it that every child learns to read by third grade. I’m also connecting businesses and high schools so students get hands-on experience and a path to a good-paying job whether or not they go to college. And I want to make college more affordable. Let’s continue increasing Pell Grants for working- and middle-class families and increase our record investments in HBCUs and Hispanic and Minority-serving Institutions I fixed student loan programs to reduce the burden of student debt for nearly 4 Million Americans including nurses firefighters and others in public service like Keenan Jones a public-school educator in Minnesota who’s here with us tonight. He’s educated hundreds of students so they can go to college now he can help his own daughter pay for college. Such relief is good for the economy because folks are now able to buy a home start a business even start a family. While we’re at it I want to give public school teachers a raise! Now let me speak to a question of fundamental fairness for all Americans. I’ve been delivering real results in a fiscally responsible way. I’ve already cut the federal deficit by over one trillion dollars. I signed a bipartisan budget deal that will cut another trillion dollars over the next decade. And now it’s my goal to cut the federal deficit $3 trillion more by making big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their fair share. Look, I’m a capitalist. If you want to make a million bucks – great! Just pay your fair share in taxes. A fair tax code is how we invest in the things – that make a country great, health care, education, defense, and more. But here’s the deal. The last administration enacted a $2 Trillion tax cut that overwhelmingly benefits the very wealthy and the biggest corporations and exploded the federal deficit. They added more to the national debt than in any presidential term in American history. For folks at home does anybody really think the tax code is fair? Do you really think the wealthy and big corporations need another $2 trillion in tax breaks? I sure don’t. I’m going to keep fighting like hell to make it fair! Under my plan nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in federal taxes. Nobody. Not one penny. In fact the Child Tax Credit I passed during the pandemic cut taxes for millions of working families and cut child poverty in HALF. Restore the Child Tax Credit because no child should go hungry in this country! The way to make the tax code fair is to make big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their share. In 2020 55 of the biggest companies in America made $40 Billion in profits and paid zero in federal income taxes. Not any more! Thanks to the law I wrote and signed big companies now have to pay a minimum of 15%. But that’s still less than working people pay in federal taxes. It’s time to raise the corporate minimum tax to at least 21% so every big corporation finally begins to pay their fair share. I also want to end the tax breaks for Big Pharma, Big Oil, private jets, and massive executive pay! End it now! There are 1,000 billionaires in America. You know what the average federal tax rate for these billionaires is? 8.2 percent! That’s far less than the vast majority of Americans pay. No billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher, a sanitation worker, a nurse! That’s why I’ve proposed a minimum tax of 25% for billionaires. Just 25%. That would raise $500 Billion over the next 10 years. Imagine what that could do for America. Imagine a future with affordable child care so millions of families can get the care they need and still go to work and help grow the economy. Imagine a future with paid leave because no one should have to choose between working and taking care of yourself or a sick family member. Imagine a future with home care and elder care so seniors and people living with disabilities can stay in their homes and family caregivers get paid what they deserve! Tonight, let’s all agree once again to stand up for seniors! Many of my Republican friends want to put Social Security on the chopping block. If anyone here tries to cut Social Security or Medicare or raise the retirement age I will stop them! Working people who built this country pay more into Social Security than millionaires and billionaires do. It’s not fair. We have two ways to go on Social Security. Republicans will cut Social Security and give more tax cuts to the wealthy. I will protect and strengthen Social Security and make the wealthy pay their fair share! Too many corporations raise their prices to pad their profits charging you more and more for less and less. That’s why we’re cracking down on corporations that engage in price gouging or deceptive pricing from food to health care to housing. In fact, snack companies think you won’t notice when they charge you just as much for the same size bag but with fewer chips in it. Pass Senator Bob Casey’s bill to put a stop to shrinkflation! I’m also getting rid of junk fees those hidden fees added at the end of your bills without your knowledge. My administration just announced we’re cutting credit card late fees from $32 to just $8. The banks and credit card companies don’t like it. Why? I’m saving American families $20 billion a year with all of the junk fees I’m eliminating. And I’m not stopping there. My Administration has proposed rules to make cable travel utilities and online ticket sellers tell you the total price upfront so there are no surprises. It matters. And so does this. In November, my team began serious negotiations with a bipartisan group of Senators. The result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of border security reforms we’ve ever seen in this country. That bipartisan deal would hire 1,500 more border security agents and officers. 100 more immigration judges to help tackle a backload of 2 million cases. 4,300 more asylum officers and new policies so they can resolve cases in 6 months instead of 6 years. 100 more high-tech drug detection machines to significantly increase the ability to screen and stop vehicles from smuggling fentanyl into America. This bill would save lives and bring order to the border. It would also give me as President new emergency authority to temporarily shut down the border when the number of migrants at the border is overwhelming. The Border Patrol Union endorsed the bill. The Chamber of Commerce endorsed the bill. I believe that given the opportunity a majority of the House and Senate would endorse it as well. But unfortunately, politics have derailed it so far. I’m told my predecessor called Republicans in Congress and demanded they block the bill. He feels it would be a political win for me and a political loser for him. It’s not about him or me. It’d be a winner for America! My Republican friends you owe it to the American people to get this bill done. We need to act. And if my predecessor is watching instead of playing politics and pressuring members of Congress to block this bill, join me in telling Congress to pass it! We can do it together. But here’s what I will not do. I will not demonize immigrants saying they “poison the blood of our country” as he said in his own words. I will not separate families. I will not ban people from America because of their faith. Unlike my predecessor, on my first day in office I introduced a comprehensive plan to fix our immigration system, secure the border, and provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and so much more. Because unlike my predecessor, I know who we are as Americans. We are the only nation in the world with a heart and soul that draws from old and new. Home to Native Americans whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years. Home to people from every place on Earth. Some came freely. Some chained by force. Some when famine struck, like my ancestral family in Ireland. Some to flee persecution. Some to chase dreams that are impossible anywhere but here in America. That’s America, where we all come from somewhere, but we are all Americans. We can fight about the border, or we can fix it. I’m ready to fix it. Send me the border bill now! A transformational moment in our history happened 59 years ago today in Selma, Alabama. Hundreds of foot soldiers for justice marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named after a Grand Dragon of the KKK, to claim their fundamental right to vote. They were beaten bloodied and left for dead. Our late friend and former colleague John Lewis was at the march. We miss him. Joining us tonight are other marchers who were there including Betty May Fikes, known as the “Voice of Selma”. A daughter of gospel singers and preachers, she sang songs of prayer and protest on that Bloody Sunday, to help shake the nation’s conscience. Five months later, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. But 59 years later, there are forces taking us back in time. Voter suppression. Election subversion. Unlimited dark money. Extreme gerrymandering. John Lewis was a great friend to many of us here. But if you truly want to honor him and all the heroes who marched with him, then it’s time for more than just talk. Pass and send me the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act! And stop denying another core value of America our diversity across American life. Banning books. It’s wrong! Instead of erasing history, let’s make history! I want to protect other fundamental rights! Pass the Equality Act, and my message to transgender Americans: I have your back! Pass the PRO Act for workers rights! And raise the federal minimum wage because every worker has the right to earn a decent living! We are also making history by confronting the climate crisis, not denying it. I’m taking the most significant action on climate ever in the history of the world. I am cutting our carbon emissions in half by 2030. Creating tens of thousands of clean-energy jobs, like the IBEW workers building and installing 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations. Conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030. Taking historic action on environmental justice for fence-line communities smothered by the legacy of pollution. And patterned after the Peace Corps and Ameri Corps, I’ve launched a Climate Corps to put 20,000 young people to work at the forefront of our clean energy future. I’ll triple that number this decade. All Americans deserve the freedom to be safe, and America is safer today than when I took office. The year before I took office, murders went up 30% nationwide the biggest increase in history. That was then. Now, through my American Rescue Plan, which every Republican voted against, I’ve made the largest investment in public safety ever. Last year, the murder rate saw the sharpest decrease in history, and violent crime fell to one of the lowest levels in more than 50 years. But we have more to do. Help cities and towns invest in more community police officers, more mental health workers, and more community violence intervention. Give communities the tools to crack down on gun crime, retail crime, and carjacking. Keep building public trust, as I’ve been doing by taking executive action on police reform, and calling for it to be the law of the land, directing my Cabinet to review the federal classification of marijuana, and expunging thousands of convictions for mere possession, because no one should be jailed for using or possessing marijuana! To take on crimes of domestic violence, I am ramping up federal enforcement of the Violence Against Women Act, that I proudly wrote, so we can finally end the scourge of violence against women in America! And there’s another kind of violence I want to stop. With us tonight is Jasmine, whose 9-year-old sister Jackie was murdered with 21 classmates and teachers at her elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Soon after it happened, Jill and I went to Uvalde and spent hours with the families. We heard their message, and so should everyone in this chamber do something. I did do something by establishing the first-ever Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the White House that Vice President Harris is leading. Meanwhile, my predecessor told the NRA he’s proud he did nothing on guns when he was President. After another school shooting in Iowa he said we should just “get over it.” I say we must stop it. I’m proud we beat the NRA when I signed the most significant gun safety law in nearly 30 years! Now we must beat the NRA again! I’m demanding a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines! Pass universal background checks! None of this violates the Second Amendment or vilifies responsible gun owners. As we manage challenges at home, we’re also managing crises abroad including in the Middle East. I know the last five months have been gut-wrenching for so many people, for the Israeli people, the Palestinian people, and so many here in America. This crisis began on October 7th with a massacre by the terrorist group Hamas. 1,200 innocent people women and girls men and boys slaughtered, many enduring sexual violence. The deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. 250 hostages taken. Here in the chamber tonight are American families whose loved ones are still being held by Hamas. I pledge to all the families that we will not rest until we bring their loved ones home. We will also work around the clock to bring home Evan and Paul, Americans being unjustly detained all around the world. Israel has a right to go after Hamas. Hamas could end this conflict today by releasing the hostages, laying down arms, and surrendering those responsible for October 7th. Israel has an added burden because Hamas hides and operates among the civilian population. But Israel also has a fundamental responsibility to protect innocent civilians in Gaza. This war has taken a greater toll on innocent civilians than all previous wars in Gaza combined. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed. Most of whom are not Hamas. Thousands and thousands are innocent women and children. Girls and boys also orphaned. Nearly 2 million more Palestinians under bombardment or displaced. Homes destroyed, neighborhoods in rubble, cities in ruin. Families without food, water, medicine. It’s heartbreaking. We’ve been working non-stop to establish an immediate ceasefire that would last for at least six weeks. It would get the hostages home, ease the intolerable humanitarian crisis, and build toward something more enduring. The United States has been leading international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance into Gaza. Tonight, I’m directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters. No U.S. boots will be on the ground. This temporary pier would enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day. But Israel must also do its part. Israel must allow more aid into Gaza and ensure that humanitarian workers aren’t caught in the cross fire. To the leadership of Israel I say this. Humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip. Protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority. As we look to the future, the only real solution is a two-state solution. I say this as a lifelong supporter of Israel and the only American president to visit Israel in wartime. There is no other path that guarantees Israel’s security and democracy. There is no other path that guarantees Palestinians can live with peace and dignity. There is no other path that guarantees peace between Israel and all of its Arab neighbors, including Saudi Arabia. Creating stability in the Middle East also means containing the threat posed by Iran. That’s why I built a coalition of more than a dozen countries to defend international shipping and freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. I’ve ordered strikes to degrade Houthi capabilities and defend U.S. Forces in the region. As Commander in Chief, I will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and military personnel. For years, all I’ve heard from my Republican friends and so many others is China’s on the rise and America is falling behind. They’ve got it backward. America is rising. We have the best economy in the world. Since I’ve come to office, our GDP is up. And our trade deficit with China is down to the lowest point in over a decade. We’re standing up against China’s unfair economic practices. And standing up for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. I’ve revitalized our partnerships and alliances in the Pacific. I’ve made sure that the most advanced American technologies can’t be used in China’s weapons. Frankly for all his tough talk on China, it never occurred to my predecessor to do that. We want competition with China, but not conflict. And we’re in a stronger position to win the competition for the 21st Century against China or anyone else for that matter. Here at home I’ve signed over 400 bipartisan bills. But there’s more to do to pass my Unity Agenda. Strengthen penalties on fentanyl trafficking. Pass bipartisan privacy legislation to protect our children online. Harness the promise of A.I. and protect us from its peril. Ban A.I. voice impersonation and more! And keep our one truly sacred obligation, to train and equip those we send into harm’s way and care for them and their families when they come home, and when they don’t. That’s why I signed the PACT Act, one of the most significant laws ever, helping millions of veterans who were exposed to toxins and who now are battling more than 100 cancers. Many of them didn’t come home. We owe them and their families. And we owe it to ourselves to keep supporting our new health research agency called ARPA-H and remind us that we can do big things like end cancer as we know it! Let me close with this. I know I may not look like it, but I’ve been around a while. And when you get to my age certain things become clearer than ever before. I know the American story. Again and again I’ve seen the contest between competing forces in the battle for the soul of our nation. Between those who want to pull America back to the past and those who want to move America into the future. My lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy. A future based on the core values that have defined America. Honesty. Decency. Dignity. Equality. To respect everyone. To give everyone a fair shot. To give hate no safe harbor. Now some other people my age see a different story. An American story of resentment, revenge, and retribution. That’s not me. I was born amid World War II when America stood for freedom in the world. I grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania and Claymont, Delaware among working people who built this country. I watched in horror as two of my heroes, Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy, were assassinated and their legacies inspired me to pursue a career in service. A public defender, county councilman, elected United States Senator at 29, then Vice President, to our first Black President, now President, with our first woman Vice President. In my career I’ve been told I’m too young and I’m too old. Whether young or old, I’ve always known what endures. Our North Star. The very idea of America, that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. We’ve never fully lived up to that idea, but we’ve never walked away from it either. And I won’t walk away from it now. My fellow Americans the issue facing our nation isn’t how old we are it’s how old our ideas are? Hate, anger, revenge, retribution are among the oldest of ideas. But you can’t lead America with ancient ideas that only take us back. To lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future of what America can and should be. Tonight you’ve heard mine. I see a future where we defend democracy not diminish it. I see a future where we restore the right to choose and protect other freedoms not take them away. I see a future where the middle class finally has a fair shot and the wealthy finally have to pay their fair share in taxes. I see a future where we save the planet from the climate crisis and our country from gun violence. Above all, I see a future for all Americans! I see a country for all Americans! And I will always be a president for all Americans! Because I believe in America! I believe in you the American people. You’re the reason I’ve never been more optimistic about our future! So let’s build that future together! Let’s remember who we are! We are the United States of America. There is nothing beyond our capacity when we act together! May God bless you all. May God protect our troops." target="_blank">March 8, 2024. State of the Union address.</a></p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-71221320832383266332024-02-24T03:38:00.002-07:002024-02-24T03:38:15.813-07:00Bloody 287<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5QqLpeuswIVEJeAirL-DXvYJna-nZ5QGouv3gO0mnKoCRXTKPPYav5FE3E1-mobuClQswsZjQcyCU52zOt-A2_Ht9mImC1Fi7Uqucfa7QP5-QmBxJRe9g3_aYC4Ou-z_AdGkYpGKsCx8CSTeWmda1hkdyCKvehWkBY0IfGpS_k8N726Cba7Ri2WPnRd4/s1280/US_287.svg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1280" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5QqLpeuswIVEJeAirL-DXvYJna-nZ5QGouv3gO0mnKoCRXTKPPYav5FE3E1-mobuClQswsZjQcyCU52zOt-A2_Ht9mImC1Fi7Uqucfa7QP5-QmBxJRe9g3_aYC4Ou-z_AdGkYpGKsCx8CSTeWmda1hkdyCKvehWkBY0IfGpS_k8N726Cba7Ri2WPnRd4/w640-h512/US_287.svg.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>I've traveled it countless times myself, that stretch of highway between Laramie and Ft. Collins.</p><p>It's not a great road.</p><p>Thursday, three UW swimmers were killed in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado. Two more were injured. They were 18, 19, and 21.</p><p>In September of 2001, eight members of UW’s cross-country team were killed in a two-vehicle collision south of Laramie on U.S. 287 near Tie Siding.</p><p>In September 2010, UW football player Ruben Narcisse, 19, of Miami, Florida, was killed on U.S. 287 six miles south of the Wyoming state line after the driver of the vehicle he was a passenger in fell asleep. That one, I guess, you can't blame on the road.</p><p>Seems like something should be done.</p><p><b><i>Appendix:</i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Governor Gordon Issues Statement Following Fatal Car Accident Involving University of Wyoming Swimmers</p><p>CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon has issued the following statement after learning of a single-vehicle car accident that claimed the lives of three members of the University of Wyoming swim team on Thursday on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado.</p><p>“I am heartbroken to learn of the tragic deaths of three University of Wyoming student athletes in a motor vehicle accident on US 287 in Colorado. Jennie and I join the entire university community and all of Wyoming in mourning this loss, and we ask you to keep their families, friends and loved ones close to your hearts during this difficult time.”</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-36818590137469489682024-02-19T08:59:00.006-07:002024-02-19T08:59:59.671-07:00Major Gale "Buck" Cleven<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghXmD-xV99PPKQ31oTuIJC53n4TFGWaX5k310HQv0QmZyZXfjv5bhdpu5s_jhv98PFaC9LblPUjzhTviATwUFkxX_iUrDHy0lVmA52zb6pj_UdAcaN8JuF9Qfx66oLVNnOJz0Tr2RtEcgC2Hf-rYBv5Fym-Pw1yu4Q8cfyEiZrti8_jxZ5cGgmQvjaE7I/s635/Major_Gale_Cleven_(studio_portrait).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghXmD-xV99PPKQ31oTuIJC53n4TFGWaX5k310HQv0QmZyZXfjv5bhdpu5s_jhv98PFaC9LblPUjzhTviATwUFkxX_iUrDHy0lVmA52zb6pj_UdAcaN8JuF9Qfx66oLVNnOJz0Tr2RtEcgC2Hf-rYBv5Fym-Pw1yu4Q8cfyEiZrti8_jxZ5cGgmQvjaE7I/s16000/Major_Gale_Cleven_(studio_portrait).jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>In the Apple TV series <i>Masters of the Air</i>, one of the characters is Maj. Gale "Buck" Cleven, who reports himself as being from Casper twice in the first episode.</p><p>Who was he, and was he really from Casper?</p><p>Clevens was born in Lemmon, South Dakota, on December 27, 1918, just after the end of World War One. His family moved to Casper when he was still a child, although I'm not certain when, as they moved first to Lusk, in 1920. He likely was a 1937 graduate from Natrona County High School, the only high school in Casper at the time (Natrona County had a second one in Midwest). Following graduating from high school, he attended the University of Wyoming while also working on drilling crews as a roughneck.</p><p>He did, in fact, move at some point to Casper, where he was employed as a roughneck on drilling crews. He used the money he earned to attend the University of Wyoming and was enrolled by the fall of 1937, presumably right after high school. His name appears in the social pages of The Branding Iron as having had a date attend the men's residence hall October dance. He was a guest of a different young lady at the 1939 Tri Delts Halloween sorority dance. The same year he was apparently in a fraternity, as he's noted as having attended the Phi Delta Theta dance with, yes, another young lady. In February 1939 he went to a fraternity dance with Nova Carter, whom I believe I'm related to by marriage. A year later, February 1940, he took a different gal to the same dance.</p><p>He left UW in 1941 to join the Army, intent on being a pilot. The October 21, 1943, edition of the UW Student Newspaper, The Branding Iron, notes him (inaccurately) as being stationed in North Africa and having received the Distinguished Service Cross, which he in fact did receive for piloting his badly stricken plane from Schweinfurt to North Africa, the flight path taken on that raid. This even is depicted in <i>Masters of the Air</i>. <i>The Branding Iron</i> noted that he had attended UW for three years. In June, 1944, the student newspaper reported him a POW. He's noted again for a second decoration in the March 2, 1944, edition, which also notes that he was a Prisoner of War.</p><p>As depicted in <i>Masters of the Air</i>, his B-17 was in fact shot down over Germany. He ended up becoming a POW, as reported in the UW paper, at Stalag Luft III for 18 months, after which he escaped and made it to Allied lines. He was put back in the cockpit after the war flying troops back to the United States.</p><p>Following the war, he was back at the University of Wyoming. He graduated from UW with a bachelor's in 1946. He apparently reentered the Air Force after that, or was recalled into service, and served in the Korean War, leaving the Air Force around that time.</p><p>He was on the Winter Quarter 1954 UW Honor Roll and obtained a Masters Degree, probably in geology, from UW in 1956. Somewhere in here, he obtained a MBA degree from Harvard and an interplanetary physics doctorate from George Washington University. </p><p>He married immediately after the war in 1945 to Marjorie Ruth Spencer, who was originally from Lander Wyoming. They had known each other since childhood. She tragically passed away in 1953 while visiting her parents, while due to join Gale at Morton Air Force Base in California. Polio was the cause of her death, and unusually her headstone, in Texas, bears her maiden name. Reportedly, her death threw Cleven into a deep depression. He married again in 1955, to Esther Lee Athey.</p><p>His post-war career is hard to follow. He flew again during the Korean War, as noted, which would explain the gap between his bachelors and master’s degrees, and probably his doctorate. He's noted as having served again during the Vietnam War, and also has having held a post at the Pentagon. He was in charge of EDP information at Hughes Aircraft. Given all of that, it's hard to know if an intended career in geology ever materialized, or if his World War Two service ended up essentially dominating the remainder of his career in the form of military service. The interplanetary physics degree would and employment by Hughes would suggest the latter. His highest held rank in the Air Force was Colonel.</p><p>Following retirement, he lived in Dickenson, North Dakota, and then later at the Sugarland Retirement Center in Sheridan. He died at age 86 in 2006, and is buried at the Santa Fe National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his marker noting service in three wars.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-47281579072597705392023-11-27T05:07:00.002-07:002024-01-04T04:40:14.864-07:00Entry Updates, 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVlKkqR3nxQ-34K-ZU925RbX8tGW23MMu1Sxnbmh9-zaYiwkwPfdgRmzKJ8mhphEftOt2OfdP3zlq1gOqJuwDaFgl23ICaVj7D7JTz5uKwwRX8JvJXzExdWkTbeOHAERjIzWCk0xLczMfH8FtWr8v-_mRgKDHNfkjCStEkvcgtcDFRGTVLFBRWG6g/s594/Saturday%20Evening%20Post%201908-08-01-me.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="472" height="732" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVlKkqR3nxQ-34K-ZU925RbX8tGW23MMu1Sxnbmh9-zaYiwkwPfdgRmzKJ8mhphEftOt2OfdP3zlq1gOqJuwDaFgl23ICaVj7D7JTz5uKwwRX8JvJXzExdWkTbeOHAERjIzWCk0xLczMfH8FtWr8v-_mRgKDHNfkjCStEkvcgtcDFRGTVLFBRWG6g/w582-h732/Saturday%20Evening%20Post%201908-08-01-me.jpg" width="582" /></a></div><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-2.html?spref=bl" target="_blank">January 2: 2022, Inaugurations.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-27.html?spref=bl" target="_blank">February 27, 1973. Wounded Knee</a>.</p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/03/march-29.html" target="_blank">March 29, 1943. Rationing.</a></p><p><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3378211050101354121/4728157907259770539?hl=en#" target="_blank">March 29, 1973. Expanded entry on Vietnam, U.S. Price controls.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/04/april-14.html" target="_blank">April 14, 1923. The KKK visits Casper Churches.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/06/june-5.html" target="_blank">June 5, 1923. North Casper to be incorporated into Casper.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/06/june-23.html" target="_blank">June 23, 1923. Somewhere West of Laramie.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/06/june-25.html" target="_blank">June 25, 1923. Harding in Cheyenne and Laramie, KKK in Glenrock.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-16.html" target="_blank">July 16, 1923. Special legislative session convenes.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-19.html" target="_blank">July 19, 1923. Special legislative session ends.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-23.html" target="_blank">July 23, 1923. Flooding in Natrona County.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-25.html" target="_blank">July 25, 1923. Flooding at Thermopolis.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-27.html" target="_blank">July 27, 1923. Casper to become Tulsa.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-2.html" target="_blank">August 2, 1923. Death of Warren G. Harding.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/08/august-29.html" target="_blank">August 29, 1923. Peaks in Teton's scaled.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/09/september-22.html" target="_blank">September 22, 1923. Henning Hotel robbed.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/09/september-27.html?spref=bl" target="_blank">September 27, 1923. Cole Creek railroad disaster updated.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/10/october-12.html" target="_blank">October 12, 1973 President Nixon authorizes an act that will lead to the Arab Oil Embargo.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/10/october-18.html" target="_blank">October 18, 1973. Oil embargo nears.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/10/october-19.html" target="_blank">October 19, 1973. Oil embargo spreads.</a>\</p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/11/november-11-veterans-day.html" target="_blank">November 11, 1943. Girl Scouts at Heart Mountain.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-22.html?spref=bl" target="_blank">November 22, 1963. Kennedy's assassination.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/11/november-18.html" target="_blank">November 18, 2023. Pine Ridge state of emergency.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/11/november-27.html" target="_blank">November 27, 1923. Shoe store.</a></p><p></p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-89028908003359996512023-11-21T03:54:00.002-07:002023-11-21T03:54:21.924-07:00Blog Mirror: Park County Archives Online Maps<p>New electronic archive:</p><h2 class="text-center" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-family: "Avenir Next", "Avenir Next"; font-size: var(--font-size-h2); font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 24px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://park-county-archives-pcarchives.hub.arcgis.com/" target="_blank">Park County Archives Online Maps</a></h2>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-83317645318144593132023-10-16T05:09:00.001-06:002023-10-16T05:09:03.755-06:00Towns and Nature: Chugwater, WY: Lost/CB&Q Depot and Three Wood Grai...<a href="https://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2023/10/chugwater-wy-lostcb-depot-and-three.html?spref=bl">Towns and Nature: Chugwater, WY: Lost/CB&Q Depot and Three Wood Grai...</a>: ( Satellite ) Michael Pannel commented on his share of his post Here is the original depot and order board before demolition by train in 195...Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-6756234812344948782023-09-21T16:37:00.006-06:002023-09-21T16:37:33.161-06:00Blog Mirror: Hoback River named 212 years ago after ‘mysterious’ trapper<p> </p><h1 class="entry-title " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: var(--newspack-theme-font-heading); font-size: var(--newspack-theme-font-size-xxxxl); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--newspack-theme-font-line-height-heading); margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://buckrail.com/hoback-river-named-212-years-ago-after-mysterious-trapper/" target="_blank">Hoback River named 212 years ago after ‘mysterious’ trapper</a></h1>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-15937630422126145042023-08-26T15:00:00.004-06:002023-08-26T15:00:38.840-06:00Battle of the Rosebud Battlefield, Montana.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Battle of the Rosebud was an important June 1876 battle that came, on June 17, just days prior to the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Fought by the same Native American combatants, who crossed from their Little Big Horn encampment to counter 993 cavalrymen and mule mounted infantrymen who had marched north from Ft. Fetterman, Wyoming, at the same time troops under Gen. Terry, including Custer's command, were proceeding west from Ft. Abraham Lincoln. Crook's command included, like Terry's, Crow scouts, and he additionally was augmented soon after leaving Ft. Fetterman by Shoshoni combatants.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7NGz26Z95Y01HjMZw-6SHCFgGx1Mvzy87kQYerVi9Wwf2eDf7wayO6HmhfyUkC6aT00oW80a1fe8IkrNxWGSrusXU-6opKQQFUsHl83HZrIO7ljiF_TH4U_NmFEiOAmY5EZ6vfAiUg5GIn8_Eef8j9PXO7x0TVvkSNl31a7lHHXw1c9UFutg7NYF0Hg8/s7360/IMGP1690.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4912" data-original-width="7360" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7NGz26Z95Y01HjMZw-6SHCFgGx1Mvzy87kQYerVi9Wwf2eDf7wayO6HmhfyUkC6aT00oW80a1fe8IkrNxWGSrusXU-6opKQQFUsHl83HZrIO7ljiF_TH4U_NmFEiOAmY5EZ6vfAiUg5GIn8_Eef8j9PXO7x0TVvkSNl31a7lHHXw1c9UFutg7NYF0Hg8/w640-h428/IMGP1690.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p>The battlefield today is nearly untouched.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_0gxz_Bblj1uj6JV4gPYFIF16d6NMBNAXWn_dmguFu5p64U_RX4IcdGvKjCbP9ArHq2kDak0Ii-pn7Vyxj9-2nQwT9A3KuBK67UD__ItgusKqiOFpHGnAf5GEqQy5Ad04SKdlKitGEBx8cAu0Cra8tkGsNoc4dJxAdPKwQkPJ6bow4JIdGsVpjOpsfjc/s7360/IMGP1691.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Caught in a valley and attacked, rather than attacking into a valley like Custer, the Army took some ground and held its positions, and then withdrew. Crook was effectively knocked out of action for the rest of the year and retreated into the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming.</div> <p></p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-3640442888583919612023-08-06T06:08:00.004-06:002023-08-06T06:08:51.128-06:00Towns and Nature: Gillette, WY: 1907 CB&Q Roundhouse and Water Tower<a href="https://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2023/08/gillette-wy-1907-cb-roundhouse-and.html?spref=bl">Towns and Nature: Gillette, WY: 1907 CB&Q Roundhouse and Water Tower</a>: ( Satellite , the roundhouse was removed by 1970. There are no obvious remnants.) Note the water tower on the left. The building with the de...Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-79703122648619881412023-07-23T06:52:00.004-06:002023-07-23T06:52:26.269-06:00Railhead: Rail Features. Thyra Thompson Building, Casper Wyoming.<a href="https://patsrailhead.blogspot.com/2023/07/rail-features-thyra-thompson-building.html?spref=bl">Railhead: Rail Features. Thyra Thompson Building, Casper Wyo...</a>: <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://patsrailhead.blogspot.com/2023/07/rail-features-thyra-thompson-building.html" style="color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">Rail Features. Thyra Thompson Building, Casper Wyoming.</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3519109082792942146" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 946px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The State of Wyoming recently completed the construction of a massive new state office building, the Thyra Thompson Building, in Casper. All of the state's administrative bodies, except for the district and circuit courts, are housed there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHT_D-b6pcUp2dFPzlsuVFaipjsxtgtLtJalqRiJMldlVafoxElQ3ArEYi0T5QRiHuhDMdoAx1GoVWy2vE4zV-kuEbFvYJO9ZVfqLwZcBnpgiXQM6hP7iYK3zSvlbcJWsHc3JI4l-JUpiW2TjbMX91DPEleu32ajkkYOrXT1CsyPPybmyM_MwEwj99jrA/s4032/IMG_3593.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHT_D-b6pcUp2dFPzlsuVFaipjsxtgtLtJalqRiJMldlVafoxElQ3ArEYi0T5QRiHuhDMdoAx1GoVWy2vE4zV-kuEbFvYJO9ZVfqLwZcBnpgiXQM6hP7iYK3zSvlbcJWsHc3JI4l-JUpiW2TjbMX91DPEleu32ajkkYOrXT1CsyPPybmyM_MwEwj99jrA/w640-h480/IMG_3593.JPG" style="background: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The building does house, however, the Chancery Court for the entire state, a new court that's only recently been established.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirn1BN_6UPWE0eDEdRo6bvP7xWtHbzatTYHBCVYuzsTUwiJzkn_2yPUwTMuK8LI3L33bHKMQJOJPAm4XPJ1rPoVnY9ctP2BpldwxI6TtEp4IBDoAzp8QqEPaxKw8Gb6W9sHEXQsOcM0oEoJvVAGs5kcFTst-pKpdEbDl5X6PxGuwve6M3w7otfCWaJt7U/s4032/IMG_3554.JPG" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirn1BN_6UPWE0eDEdRo6bvP7xWtHbzatTYHBCVYuzsTUwiJzkn_2yPUwTMuK8LI3L33bHKMQJOJPAm4XPJ1rPoVnY9ctP2BpldwxI6TtEp4IBDoAzp8QqEPaxKw8Gb6W9sHEXQsOcM0oEoJvVAGs5kcFTst-pKpdEbDl5X6PxGuwve6M3w7otfCWaJt7U/w480-h640/IMG_3554.JPG" style="background: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="480" /></a></div><p>The building is built right over what had been the Great Northwest rail yard in Casper, which was still an active, although not too active, rail yard into my teens. I can't really recall when they abandoned the line, but it was abandoned.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjLe4_GJex11HKFvTov9uL30H8kvhcVSfU5HHRmlYn6LWHm-C3Ux4DTCQgHAgcWe__d7Xzv-Naz6YhrNPCdlejXmxwdHiZjLLPm0helZLbBINtzNSdwzczY8gJMSqz-lmAAnADrX8co5oJggl2F-ihJHfFu9DBEkjtE59Vv3f3LqcFzTqiHe-AAtaLX4/s4032/IMG_3555.JPG" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjLe4_GJex11HKFvTov9uL30H8kvhcVSfU5HHRmlYn6LWHm-C3Ux4DTCQgHAgcWe__d7Xzv-Naz6YhrNPCdlejXmxwdHiZjLLPm0helZLbBINtzNSdwzczY8gJMSqz-lmAAnADrX8co5oJggl2F-ihJHfFu9DBEkjtE59Vv3f3LqcFzTqiHe-AAtaLX4/w480-h640/IMG_3555.JPG" style="background: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>In putting the building in, and extending the Platte River Parkway through it, the State did a nice job of incorporating some rail features so that there's a memory of what the location had been.<p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPh81byEUnUxJWBpMUxXjGwAsJVKf936OnEjeyMKpinluXbl_Vc_GFcvCRNWklW-e6xLAJVhhINEp50ZbragKbSawXVouTTNgxXNBaT9XP357EEoqEvjDE4yweKFaPigYu7oucGGYjvuadkcCOnznNdB4psajBHRzpGTy_6XH_u77asgq1KXHYjOhH8U/s4032/IMG_3556.JPG" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPh81byEUnUxJWBpMUxXjGwAsJVKf936OnEjeyMKpinluXbl_Vc_GFcvCRNWklW-e6xLAJVhhINEp50ZbragKbSawXVouTTNgxXNBaT9XP357EEoqEvjDE4yweKFaPigYu7oucGGYjvuadkcCOnznNdB4psajBHRzpGTy_6XH_u77asgq1KXHYjOhH8U/w640-h480/IMG_3556.JPG" style="background: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They also put in some historical plaques, which are nice. The curved arch at this location, moreover, is the location of the old turntable. It was a small one, which I hate to admit that I crossed over when I was a teenager, a dangerous thing to do.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrHu4jv2UYjqKMPxQVpn9u2DJLZIieGCVpFMB56H-47eSFP_M7pKlg8IznszA2-P41WU-nuL_i3sMz6vBE4_XzHsL8X20u-l4ytcAGj0LJ5xe0om_fj4HgwvOZOwV-x8DRWwrenk_WgZAwxyATTRLHzlOM_2TpmZCu8VbkaeDiAZWQ9bTgZZ0ExMvaC0/s4032/IMG_3557.JPG" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrHu4jv2UYjqKMPxQVpn9u2DJLZIieGCVpFMB56H-47eSFP_M7pKlg8IznszA2-P41WU-nuL_i3sMz6vBE4_XzHsL8X20u-l4ytcAGj0LJ5xe0om_fj4HgwvOZOwV-x8DRWwrenk_WgZAwxyATTRLHzlOM_2TpmZCu8VbkaeDiAZWQ9bTgZZ0ExMvaC0/w640-h480/IMG_3557.JPG" style="background: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi77ql1a25zmxmUFatY6qdQCAJcl6lut33TL6-_Q055B-jHWu5duhGvHNsByMvHWfwRwD55NOuUtrbbyh4SBzCFah1aZT2HmacMmZ9h8cwwlXI7zZDQPax5EZuwxez0l3yaphoQ3STdaT5oCDYIaQFpEs5cKFCLhDvqZPOYxhL5scPFtjQqA-Y5CiwdMpk/w640-h480/IMG_3564.JPG" style="background: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-42328946581600463822023-06-22T04:12:00.004-06:002023-06-22T04:12:55.859-06:00Albany County Commissiones vote to change name of lake.<p>The Albany County Commissioners have voted to change the name of Swastika Lake, in the Medicine Bow National Forest, to Samuel H. Knight Lake, after the famous Wyoming geologist.</p><p>One county commissioner, interestingly the only Republican one on the board, which shows how different Albany County's politics are compared to the most of the rest of Wyoming, slammed the move as "Communists". Testimony by others dismissed that proposition, however, and indeed historical evidence showed that Native Americans objected to the use of the word as long ago as the 1940s.</p><p>The commissioner action now goes to the Wyoming board that deals with geographical names and, if they approve the change, on to the Federal Government.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-43749599523456819722023-06-15T08:52:00.008-06:002023-06-15T08:52:54.617-06:00U.S. Supreme Court upholds the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act.<p>The United States Supreme Court, contrary to many expectations, including many in the legislature, upheld today the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-7258792386717453432023-06-06T04:36:00.001-06:002023-06-06T04:36:00.146-06:00A Hairy Time<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Yb0pgT5Bb7M" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Yb0pgT5Bb7M/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is an advertisement commissioned by the Wyoming Department of Health, and my gosh does it bring home a really overlooked point about the past. . . and today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Very well done, and very much worth the watching.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not all that long ago getting a simple infection, and tetanus is more than a simple infection, could kill you. Calvin Coolidge, Jr., the then Vice President's son, died from a staph infection resulting from a blister on a toe that he acquired playing tennis barefoot. The infection killed the poor boy within a week of its occurrence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Infections acquired at barber shops, sometimes deadly, were such a problem that they were a major topic of local physician's organizations. Tetanus was only one of the killer diseases that lurked there. Even anthrax could be picked up from razor strop, if it had been made from a diseased animal. Bacteria lurking in barbers brushes, used all day long on multiple clients, posed another danger.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And of course, as the story of Calvin Coolidge, Jr. shows, infections could be picked up anywhere, and kill you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Memories of such things remained strong in my parents' generation. My mother recalled that her father used to occasionally get a shave at the barbers, which was odd as this was well after the safety razor came about, and that he invariably developed "barber's cancer", a colloquial term meaning a bad rash from an infection. The family tried to prevent him from doing this, but he would occasionally anyhow, and given the line of work he was in, it was probably in order to engage with members of the local public. My father, for his part, never approved of going barefoot, regarding it as an invitation to infection.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, simple vaccinations eliminate the danger.</div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-72118575780490864602023-06-05T04:39:00.001-06:002023-06-05T04:39:04.749-06:00Painted Bricks: Tumble Inn, Powder River, Wyoming.<a href="https://paintedbricksofcasperwyoming.blogspot.com/2023/06/tumble-inn-powder-river-wyoming.html?spref=bl">Painted Bricks: Tumble Inn, Powder River, Wyoming.</a>: <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">Tumble Inn, Powder River, Wyoming.</h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7739287133048660049" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 836px;"><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_pZDALrSMJTjUpi2E8tyLkPakzribqwjAx-LunOJHKB4T1AOZAwm-nLiTIMB1nQJfEirDJi-HTZ97emYrIOVZzJioONde9tfh64KIwhvrj7OzpoIy3SJhEtJpbXhDcLWdFq_TjG5w6HWcO5lDLcixvy5uVXheHjBFb3NhFdTsbl2FIETQK7ijankQ/s6016/IMGP4281.JPG" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6016" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_pZDALrSMJTjUpi2E8tyLkPakzribqwjAx-LunOJHKB4T1AOZAwm-nLiTIMB1nQJfEirDJi-HTZ97emYrIOVZzJioONde9tfh64KIwhvrj7OzpoIy3SJhEtJpbXhDcLWdFq_TjG5w6HWcO5lDLcixvy5uVXheHjBFb3NhFdTsbl2FIETQK7ijankQ/w640-h426/IMGP4281.JPG" style="background: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><p>As this institution is in the news, and as I knew I'd taken these photographs, I looked to see if I had posted them.</p><p>Of course, I had not.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXXVRBBVV9eZl-awWpxGcenJe2ea2ypm2_zFKvvJlExAEj-gMwnukPCo9NVx1I1Bd5l-8BMFeiFBwCItyC1gP1_DuMlLMXSY3au_9mmx5ZAjUvEX--AAoaS_bn4wy739cRDrcgFP2iCO3o68XVO__dE6rRqTYu58aNsIx8i-MMK-oDXL6VLutUHiie/s6016/IMGP4280.JPG" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6016" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXXVRBBVV9eZl-awWpxGcenJe2ea2ypm2_zFKvvJlExAEj-gMwnukPCo9NVx1I1Bd5l-8BMFeiFBwCItyC1gP1_DuMlLMXSY3au_9mmx5ZAjUvEX--AAoaS_bn4wy739cRDrcgFP2iCO3o68XVO__dE6rRqTYu58aNsIx8i-MMK-oDXL6VLutUHiie/w640-h426/IMGP4280.JPG" style="background: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The Tumble Inn was a famous eatery and watering hole in the small town of Powder River for decades. As odd as it seems now, particularly as it would have been practically impossible to leave the establishment without having had at least a couple of beers, it was very popular for travelers and people in Casper, who'd drive the nearly 30 miles for dinner and then drive back.</p><p>Open well into the unincorporated town's decline, in its final years the restaurant, which had rattlesnake and Rocky Mountain Oysters on the menu, closed under new ownership and in its final stage was an alcohol-free strip club. Apparently it recent sold and the new owner has taken down its famous sign in an effort to preserve it.</p><p>On that sign, I don't know how old it is, but from the appearances, it dates from the 40s or 50s.</p><p>The recent news article:</p><h1 class="p8ohjcd p8ohjc2 _16zsq5h2 _16zsq5h1 vbxqml4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c3a4e; font-family: var(--aryb5y3w); line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: var(--_1xtdhsv7); margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--_1xtdhsv6); max-width: 76vw; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0 var(--aryb5y17); position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/06/03/around-wyoming-powder-rivers-iconic-tumble-inn-neon-cowboy-hasnt-blown-over-its-being-restored/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Powder River’s Iconic Tumble Inn Neon Cowboy Hasn’t Blown Over, It’s Being Restored</a></span></h1></div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-19476124599891494032023-04-07T05:04:00.003-06:002023-04-07T05:04:53.647-06:00"Blizzard Largest In City's History"<p>So states the Tribune in a headline.</p><p>M'eh</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs4-h3dsUOhdl087pbQb9SRRPlWYQHHmxTP78w3XyUlt7VtFn27SdyxXT9hIqke2UXwH_Sm_EqHs8GlmjdelunAg9f7ArT_oI6djFWR8Wdfsc6uJE6kGcIhl9lqb20G4ks3hJNmJqlfxo-oLkcUvBjd0Wm2WspAfbjWM4aZO9VmfGrSlgX10LjRs3-/s4032/IMG_3100.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs4-h3dsUOhdl087pbQb9SRRPlWYQHHmxTP78w3XyUlt7VtFn27SdyxXT9hIqke2UXwH_Sm_EqHs8GlmjdelunAg9f7ArT_oI6djFWR8Wdfsc6uJE6kGcIhl9lqb20G4ks3hJNmJqlfxo-oLkcUvBjd0Wm2WspAfbjWM4aZO9VmfGrSlgX10LjRs3-/w480-h640/IMG_3100.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>I’m calling bull on this one.</p><p>For one thing, snow is measured at the airport, which gets pretty high winds, I might note. This is probably the largest blizzard the airport has recorded.</p><p>Folks on the mountain found and published an article from the Easter 1973 storm in which the Trib reported the mountain got "feet", as in around 10 feet, of snow. I vaguely recall that storm. Was it as bad as this one? I suspect so.</p><p>Frankly, this storm just wasn't that unusual. We were just paying attention, as we aren't used to them anymore.</p><p>We may have to get used to them again.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-1368496157330352192023-03-01T00:00:00.007-07:002023-03-01T00:00:00.191-07:00Wyoming Tribal License Plates<p>These are neat:</p><h1 class="large" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #492f24; font-family: "Arial Black", "Arial Bold", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 41.58px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 20px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.uwyo.edu/alumni/uw-license-plate/tribal-plate.html" target="_blank">UW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION</a></h1><h2 class="small" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #492f24; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17.92px; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.uwyo.edu/alumni/uw-license-plate/tribal-plate.html" target="_blank">UW LICENSE PLATES</a></h2><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #492f24; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.uwyo.edu/alumni/uw-license-plate/tribal-plate.html" target="_blank">Tribal License Plates to Fund Native American Student Scholarships at UW</a></h2><p>But a question, and I ask it seriously.</p><p>Would putting these on a vehicle, assuming that you are not enrolled in either Tribe, be regarded as cultural appropriation?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.uwyo.edu/alumni/_files/images/tribal-plates.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="800" height="258" src="https://www.uwyo.edu/alumni/_files/images/tribal-plates.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><br /><p>I think I saw one of these recently, and had simply assumed that the vehicle belonged to an enrolled tribal member, which is partially why I'm asking, the other part being that I think it would matter how this would be viewed by those who are enrolled in either tribe.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-36683400562049931742023-02-17T06:09:00.009-07:002023-02-17T06:09:49.863-07:00Buckle your seatbelts Laramie, it's going to be a bumpy ride. The Coldest Case In Laramie.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjK2K701CubY9xg-r-PvpyKVPPOjN-VRCK2w2Zj3HQj_wdyDE21QFBTS18UatvCqllM9ZugcT_hTiDLe6ZdAiDHtISoIfBmabCwaHoNfDsD2OyamVSGTWYkJmLE18uox3txo2Dka7rlXKnFioPyAFpPGYnqHBv8xoxZGpBTy-9ypNWjrY98i9BewiQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1600" height="415" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjK2K701CubY9xg-r-PvpyKVPPOjN-VRCK2w2Zj3HQj_wdyDE21QFBTS18UatvCqllM9ZugcT_hTiDLe6ZdAiDHtISoIfBmabCwaHoNfDsD2OyamVSGTWYkJmLE18uox3txo2Dka7rlXKnFioPyAFpPGYnqHBv8xoxZGpBTy-9ypNWjrY98i9BewiQ" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Laramie, Spring 1986.</div><br /><p></p><p>Kim Barker, a journalist who is best known for her book on Afghanistan, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, is coming out with a podcast on a 1985 unsolved murder in Laramie. Moreover, Barker was apparently a high school student at the time.</p><p>And she doesn't like the city of her alma mater at all. Of it, in the promotions for this podcast, she's stated:</p><blockquote>"I've always remembered it as a mean town. Uncommonly mean. A place of jagged edges and cold people. Where the wind blew so hard it actually whipped pebbles at you." </blockquote><p></p><p>Wow.</p><p>And there's more:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/qpt29uDVhOM" width="480"></iframe></p><p>I don't like crime books, but oddly I do like some crime/mystery podcasts. I'm not sure why the difference, and as I'm a Wyomingite and a former resident of Laramie, I'll listen to the podcast.</p><p>But frankly, I’m already jaded, and it's due to statements like this:</p><blockquote><p>It was an emblem of her time in Laramie, a town that stood out as the meanest place she’d ever lived in. </p></blockquote><p>Really, you've been to Afghanistan, and Laramie is the meanest place you've lived in?</p><p>Hmmm. . . . This is, shall we say, uncommonly crappy. And frankly, this discredits this writer.</p><p>I've lived in Laramie twice.</p><p>All together, I guess, I've lived in Casper, Laramie, and Lawton (Ft. Sill) Oklahoma. I've been to nearly every town and city in Wyoming, and I've ranged as far as Port Arthur, Texas to Central Alaska, Seoul, South Korea to Montreal.</p><p>The author may recall it that way, but if she does, it says more about her life at the time than Laramie.</p><p>And indeed, I suspect that's it.</p><p>If you listen to the trailer, you hear a string. . . dare I say it, of teenage girl complaints, preserved for decades, probably because she exited the state soon after high school, like so many Wyomingites do. I can't verify that, as her biography is hard to find. Her biography on her website starts with her being a reporter, as if she was born into the South East Asian news bureau she first worked for. A little digging brings up a source from Central Asia, which her reporting is associated with, and it notes that its very difficult to find information on her. It does say, however, that she grew up in Billings, Montana and grew up with her father. Nothing seems to be known about her mother. She's a graduate of Norwestern University, which supports that she probably graduated from high school in Laramie and then took off, never to look back. How long did she live there is an open question, and what brought her father there is another. Having said all of that, teenage girls being relocated isn't something they're generally keen on, and Billings is a bigger city than Laramie. I have yet to meet anyone who didn't like Billings.</p><p>Now, I didn't go to high school in Laramie, but I was in Laramie at the time that Barker was, and these events occurred. 1985 is apparently the critical date, and I was at UW at the time. I very vaguely recall this event occurring, and didn't at first. I vaguely recall one of the things about Laramie that Barker mentions in her introduction, which was the male athlete branding. What I recall is that there was a local scandal regarding that, and it certainly wasn't approved by anyone.</p><p>A lot of her miscellaneous complaints, however, are really petty and any high school anywhere in the United States, save perhaps for private ones, might be able to have similar stories said about it. Boys being sent out to fight if they engaged in fighting within the school wasn't that uncommon in the 80s. I don't recall it happening at my high school, outside of the C Club Fights, but I do recall it from junior high, in the 1970s, and experienced it myself. I don't regard it as an act of barbarism, although I woudln't approve of it. As noted, I recall this branding story, which was a scandal and not approved of, but today an equally appalling thing goes on all over the United States with the tattooing of children for various reasons, including minors, in spite of its illegality. Certainly college sports teams feature this frequently, and I'd wager many high school athletes experience a similar example of tribalism.</p><p>What's really upsetting, however, is the assertion that Laramie was, and is, "mean".</p><p>When I went to Laramie in 1983 for the first time, I didn't look forward to it. I found the town alien at first and strange. I probably would have found any place I went to under those circumstances to be like that. I was from Central Wyoming and had lived there my entire life, save for a short stint at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. But by the time I graduated in 1986, I had acclimated to it and there were parts of living in Albany County I really liked. I was back down there a year later, this time not dreading it, and as a graduate student I was pretty comfortable in the town.</p><p>I also wasn't a teenager being dislocated from the place I grew up in.</p><p>In my last couple of years of undergraduate studies, and in all of my graduate years, I was pretty comfortable with the city. I knew the places and things there, and had friends there. In the summers, and I spent a couple there, it was a really nice place in particular to live.</p><p>And let's be honest. Just as the land of high school angst might seem awful, the land you are in when you are young usually isn't.</p><p>If I had any complaints, at that time, it was about housing and prices. Housing was always a crisis for a student, and a lot of the places I lived were not very nice. Some were pretty bad. And prices locally were really high, it seemed to us. Local merchants complained about students shopping in Ft. Collins, but we did that as it was cheaper than shopping in Laramie.</p><p>The weather in Laramie is another thing. It's 7,000 feet high, in the Rockies, and therefore it can be cold and snowy. The highway closes a lot. In the early 1980s, it was really cold and snowy, with temperatures down below 0 quite regular. Interestingly, by the late 1980s this was less the case. And it does have wind, but ten everyplace from El Paso to the Arctic Circle is pretty windy. Wyoming weather can be a trial for some people, particularly those who are not from here.</p><p>Which gets, I guess, to this. A Colorado colleague notes that you have to be tougher just to live in the state. You do. Being from here makes you that way. As the line in the film Wind River puts it, in an exchange between the characters:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><i>Jane Banner: Shouldn't we wait for back up?</i></p><p><i>Ben: This isn't the land of waiting for back up. This is the land of you're on your own.</i></p></blockquote><p></p><p>And that can be true. If you aren't at least somewhat self-reliant, this may not be the place for you.</p><p>The further you get away from Laramie, the more this can be true. Laramie is the most "liberal" city in regular Wyoming, surpassed in that regard only by Jackson. Albany County nearly always sends at least one Democrat to the legislature. If there's left wing social legislation pending, there's a good chance it comes out of Albany County. Albany County is the only county in the state, outside of Teton, where all the things that drive the social right nuts are openly exhibited, due to the University of Wyoming. In real terms, about 1/3d of the city's population are students at any one time, and a lot of those who are not students are employed by the University of Wyoming.</p><p>When I graduated from law school, I noted that a lot of students who passed through the College of Law stayed there if they could. That says something about the town. Several good friends of mine over the years who are lawyers stayed there, including ones that had come there from other Wyoming locations. Even a few of my non law school friends worked and lived there for a time, although none of them do any longer.</p><p>And in the years since I lived there the influence of Ft. Collins has come in, with downtown establishments mimicking those that are fifty miles to the south. I've known people who retired and left the town, but I also have known people who retired to it.</p><p>It's not mean.</p><p>But the whole world is mean to some teenagers, with their limited experience and exaggerated sensibilities. Some people keep that perception for the rest of their lives.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0Laramie, WY, USA41.3113669 -105.591100713.001133063821158 -140.7473507 69.621600736178848 -70.4348507tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-80604600590211362742023-02-01T05:37:00.004-07:002023-02-01T05:38:16.580-07:00Today In Wyoming's History: 2023 Wyoming Legislature. Anti Historical Site Bill.<div>This bill:</div><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-wyoming-legislature-anti.html?spref=bl">Today In Wyoming's History: 2023 Wyoming Legislature. Anti Historical Site Bill.</a>: <div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-wyoming-legislature-anti.html" style="color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">2023 Wyoming Legislature. Anti Historical Site Bill.</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3832785967019355339" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 806px;"><p> A bill to make it more difficult to designate historical sites has been introduced in the legislature.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">HOUSE BILL NO. HB0281</p><p style="text-align: center;">Local government approval for historic site designations.</p><p>Sponsored by: Representative(s) Storer</p><p>A BILL</p><p>for</p><p>AN ACT relating to state historic sites; requiring the board of land commissioners to provide notice and to obtain consent from counties, cities or towns before making a historic site designation as specified; providing requirements; and providing for an effective date.</p><p>Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:</p><p>Section 1. W.S. 36‑8‑108 is created to read:</p><p>36‑8‑108. Designation of state historic sites; requirements.</p><p>After designation by the legislature but before any official designation is made for a state historical site when the property to be designated belongs to a county, city or town, the board of land commissioners shall obtain consent from the board of county commissioners or the local governing body of the city or town where the proposed state historical site is located. The board of county commissioners or the local governing body of a city or town shall be given not less than thirty (30) days written notice before the site is designated as a state historic site. After notice is given and the notice period has passed, if no objection is made, consent to the designation of the historic site shall be presumed. </p><p>Section 2. This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>As this has a single sponsor, it likely will go nowhere, but its purpose is hard to understand. Something being designated a historical site, contrary to widespread popular belief, doesn't commit private parties to anything.</p></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Failed to make committee consideration, and therefore is dead for the session.</div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-38327859670193553392023-01-27T05:36:00.003-07:002023-01-27T05:37:42.334-07:002023 Wyoming Legislature. Anti Historical Site Bill.<p> A bill to make it more difficult to designate historical sites has been introduced in the legislature.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">HOUSE BILL NO. HB0281</p><p style="text-align: center;">Local government approval for historic site designations.</p><p>Sponsored by: Representative(s) Storer</p><p>A BILL</p><p>for</p><p>AN ACT relating to state historic sites; requiring the board of land commissioners to provide notice and to obtain consent from counties, cities or towns before making a historic site designation as specified; providing requirements; and providing for an effective date.</p><p>Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:</p><p>Section 1. W.S. 36‑8‑108 is created to read:</p><p>36‑8‑108. Designation of state historic sites; requirements.</p><p>After designation by the legislature but before any official designation is made for a state historical site when the property to be designated belongs to a county, city or town, the board of land commissioners shall obtain consent from the board of county commissioners or the local governing body of the city or town where the proposed state historical site is located. The board of county commissioners or the local governing body of a city or town shall be given not less than thirty (30) days written notice before the site is designated as a state historic site. After notice is given and the notice period has passed, if no objection is made, consent to the designation of the historic site shall be presumed. </p><p>Section 2. This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>As this has a single sponsor, it likely will go nowhere, but its purpose is hard to understand. Something being designated a historical site, contrary to widespread popular belief, doesn't commit private parties to anything.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-64683753690558626642023-01-12T07:41:00.002-07:002023-01-12T07:41:27.045-07:00A Bill to Recognize the Service of Lester C. Hunt<p>A bill has been introduced in the legislature to recognize former Governor and Senator Lester Hunt. Given Dr. Hunt's historic place in Wyoming, and national, history, it's worth visiting the topic here.</p><p>The bill states:</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">2023</p><p style="text-align: center;">State of Wyoming</p><p style="text-align: center;">23LSO-0301</p><p style="text-align: center;">SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. SJ0002</p><p style="text-align: center;">Recognizing the service of Lester C. Hunt.</p><p>Sponsored by: Senator(s) Case and Rothfuss and Representative(s) Stith and Yin</p><p>A JOINT RESOLUTION</p><p>for</p><p>A JOINT RESOLUTION recognizing United States Senator and Wyoming Governor and Secretary of State Lester Calloway Hunt as a consummate model to public servants for his distinguished career, his commendable civility and courage and his service to Wyoming and the United States of America.</p><p>WHEREAS, after first coming to Wyoming as a recruit to play semi-professional baseball for a Lander team, Lester C. Hunt moved permanently to Wyoming to start his family and dental practice after working full-time on the railroad to fund his attendance at dental school; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt served actively during World War I as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Dental Corps from 1917 to 1919 and as a Major in the Army Reserve from 1919 to 1954; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt started his distinguished career in public service by serving in the Wyoming House of Representatives, as a Representative from Fremont County, from 1933 to 1934; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt served as Wyoming's Secretary of State from 1935 to 1943 where among his many accomplishments were obtaining a copyright to preserve the mark of the Bucking Horse and Rider and developing and implementing plans for the Bucking Horse and Rider license plate first issued in 1936; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt became the first person to serve for two consecutive terms as Governor of Wyoming, holding office during and after World War II. Among Governor Hunt's many accomplishments in addition to managing wartime concerns, he oversaw the creation of a pension system for teachers and advocated for a pension system for state employees as well as expanded systems of health benefits; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt served as Wyoming's accomplished junior United States Senator from 1949 until his untimely death by suicide, June 19, 1954; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt supported a number of federal social programs and advocated for federal support of low-cost health and dental insurance policies. He also supported a variety of programs proposed by the Eisenhower administration following the Republican landslide in the 1952 elections, including the abolition of racial segregation in the District of Columbia and the expansion of Social Security; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt served on Congressional committees including the Senate Armed Services Committee, a special Senate committee investigating war crimes and the Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce; and</p><p>WHEREAS, through Senate hearings, Lester C. Hunt was introduced to the bullying and false accusation tactics of Senator Eugene Joseph McCarthy and followers of the charismatic McCarthy, where many considered McCarthy a hero and the people who knew better stayed silent and attempted to stay on his good side; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt became a victim of this extremely polarized era in public thinking that hurt our nation and ruined the lives of many who found themselves on the other side of the boisterous "majority." During this time, Senator Hunt was a brave critic of the excesses of the McCarthyism era, even introducing legislation allowing private citizens to sue members of Congress who libeled them; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt endured threats and intimidation, to which his untimely death can be directly attributed, during this dark and harsh period of our nation's political journey characterized by incivility, irrational political dogma and unfounded beliefs; and</p><p>WHEREAS, while Lester C. Hunt was cruelly harmed by this movement, thousands of others also had their lives shattered when they were blacklisted by false accusations without credible evidence. Anyone who challenged the methods employed by the McCarthyists was labeled a communist sympathizer in a widespread chilling of free speech; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt was a victim of blackmail whereby his opponents used despicable means to obtain control of a deeply divided United States Senate; and</p><p>WHEREAS, Lester C. Hunt remained true to Wyoming and to our nation but succumbed to the overwhelming pressure and took his own life, adding to the tragic legacy of Wyoming's suicide prominence; and</p><p>WHEREAS, in 1954, within a few months after Lester C. Hunt's suicide, the Senate voted to censure Joseph McCarthy and our nation began to heal; and</p><p>WHEREAS, former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson said decades later that what happened to Lester C. Hunt "passed all boundaries of decency and exposed an evil side of politics;" and</p><p>WHEREAS, Wyoming's Lester C. Hunt with decency and courage contributed to the survival and preservation of a principled system of participatory government that has carried this nation through the darkest of times.</p><p>NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING:</p><p>Section 1. That the members of the Wyoming Legislature commit to respect each member and support our democracy and the right of every citizen to be heard and respected. With this resolution, the Wyoming Legislature remembers and joins with the people of Wyoming and all our nation to rededicate ourselves to democracy, civility, decency and truth.</p><p>Section 2. That the members of the Wyoming Legislature commit to work with those with whom we disagree and to strive for pragmatic problem-solving.</p><p>Section 3. That the members of the Wyoming Legislature commit to be ever vigilant to do all they can to prevent suicide and to be diligent in battling against injustices, inequities, discriminative conditions and intolerant practices that can lead to suicide.</p><p>Section 4. That the Secretary of State of Wyoming transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress and to the Wyoming Congressional Delegation.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>For more on Hunt:</p><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 33px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.05em; line-height: 35px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/baseball-politics-triumph-and-tragedy-career-lester-hunt" target="_blank">Baseball, Politics, Triumph and Tragedy: The Career of Lester Hunt</a></h1><p>We have discussed Hunt here:</p><p><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1942. Lester Hunt, DDS, the sitting Wyoming Secretary of State and a Democrat narrowly defeated Governor Nels H. Smith.</span></p><div style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #141414; clear: both; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NerfI3U--FHwBe3SbHEmLvGozUmuLwGJxxDygcFvcINr30J3aM88o-m8-n4JSB51fgUDNSXrg7DK2A48T68LdlWd9zGrcZf0erKdu3-1L6gcMhLMO1te7UG_K7OYUJlvxE992tA3dc7RccmxUDpIZ15kWymKgU9ffxFHoi_y45aJYcl5srtHisZL/s459/Lester_Hunt.jpg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NerfI3U--FHwBe3SbHEmLvGozUmuLwGJxxDygcFvcINr30J3aM88o-m8-n4JSB51fgUDNSXrg7DK2A48T68LdlWd9zGrcZf0erKdu3-1L6gcMhLMO1te7UG_K7OYUJlvxE992tA3dc7RccmxUDpIZ15kWymKgU9ffxFHoi_y45aJYcl5srtHisZL/s16000/Lester_Hunt.jpg" style="background: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></div><div style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Lester C. Hunt.</div><div style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">Hunt would serve as Governor for two terms before going on to becoming Wyoming's Senator. He killed himself in 1954 after Washington, D. C. police picked up his son in 1953 for soliciting a male prostitute. The scandal was kept quiet for a while, but political opponents threatened to use it against him as a threat to keep him from engaging in a 1954 bid for office.</div><div style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">In the Senate, Hunt had been an opponent of Joe McCarthy.</div><p>It's really interesting that this bill comes up now.</p><p>I didn't go into the story in depth, but as noted, Senator Hunt was an opponent of McCarthy and, obviously, tragically involved in a story that he couldn't overcome.</p><p>Hunt was a dentist by profession, and entered politics, first becoming, at a state level, the Wyoming Secretary of State. He was the elected a Democratic Governor, back in the day when Wyoming had a functioning Democratic Party and the state wasn't a one party state. He later became Wyoming's Senator.</p><p>In June 1953, his son, who was attending the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was the student body president, was picked up for solicitation of am ale prostitute. Normally this was just passed off by the police if it was a first offense, but the arrest became known to Republican Senators, who threatened to break the information if Hunt didn't resign from office. If that had happened, the Wyoming legislature would have appointed a Republican successor. </p><p>Hunt refused, his son was sentenced and paid the fine, and the Washington Post picked up the story.</p><p>Hunt decided to run for reelection anyhow, and the news story received little attention. Republicans again threatened to use it against him, although the Eisenhower Administration, seeing what was going on, tried to offer him a way out by offering him a position on the U.S. Tariff Commission. On June 8, 1954, following a medical examination, he declared he was bowing out of elective offices entirely. On June 19, he shot himself in his Senate office.</p><p>Following this, journalist Drew Pearson wrote about the drama and how the Republicans had threatened Hunt. Pearson noted, however:</p><p></p><blockquote>Two weeks ago he went to the hospital for a physical check and announced that he would not run again. It was no secret that he had been having kidney trouble for some time, but I am sure that on top of this, Lester Hunt, a much more sensitive soul than his colleagues realized, just could not bear the thought of having his son's misfortunes become the subject of whispers in his re-election campaign.</blockquote><p></p><p>In private, however, Pearson indicated that Hunt, whom he had been in contact with, had no physical concerns at the time of his suicide.</p><p>What the resolution states is completely true. If there's a black mark against Dr. Hunt in his public story, it would be that he was less than enthusiastic about the presence of Japanese American internees in the state during World War Two and his statements at the time would be hard not to view as racist, although they are not uniformly so. In our modern era, we tend not to cut anyone any slack at all for transgressions of this type, but perhaps to some degree we should. Overall, Hunt's service as Secretary of State, Governor, World War One serviceman, and Senator are praiseworthy and no matter what a person might think of McCarthy, his stand at the time was certainly praiseworthy. The actions by the GOP in persecuting him were vile.</p><p>Which is why I suspect that this bill will go nowhere. In Wyoming of 2023, there's almost no room in the state to praise a Democratic politician, and chances are that anyone supporting a bill condemning McCarthyism will receive pretty stout criticism as well.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-31928271158947811042022-12-24T14:38:00.001-07:002022-12-24T14:38:01.897-07:00Updates, October-December, 2022.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/api/singleitem/image/p15330coll22/72364/default.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="468" height="800" src="https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/api/singleitem/image/p15330coll22/72364/default.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Arapahoe woman Ft. Washakie, Wyo, 1920-1930. "Denver Public Library Special Collections"</div><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/10/october-9.html" target="_blank">October 9, 1922. Bureau of Indian Affairs gives permission for Native American actors from Wind River to act.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/11/november-3.html" target="_blank">November 3, 1942. The Election of 1942.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/11/november-7.html" target="_blank">November 7, 1922. The Election of 1922.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/11/november-24.html" target="_blank">November 24, 1922. The Colorado River Compact.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/12/december-24.html" target="_blank">December 24, 1922. Death of Sgt. John Martin.</a></p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-61540722115688333612022-11-16T06:01:00.002-07:002022-11-16T06:01:26.731-07:00The grave of Alvah H. Unthank<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZmor6nvBtTqQHWT0xu8svn9iYCN1g5-TsaG2wtObn_KBkFcvRo2u7pIX7F7Tnvot87I1-XoKNUC3fsYeBLdN2zwFa9obHxSohwDMs1_FzcwvHlqvwIQ4y4RzpWSa4rTqGgFBhuGU1z9WKBtdujoxgxF13kFfcrvc1DhXNjgW0633sxWLw8dKSYOHa/s7360/IMGP1672.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4912" data-original-width="7360" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZmor6nvBtTqQHWT0xu8svn9iYCN1g5-TsaG2wtObn_KBkFcvRo2u7pIX7F7Tnvot87I1-XoKNUC3fsYeBLdN2zwFa9obHxSohwDMs1_FzcwvHlqvwIQ4y4RzpWSa4rTqGgFBhuGU1z9WKBtdujoxgxF13kFfcrvc1DhXNjgW0633sxWLw8dKSYOHa/w640-h428/IMGP1672.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p>Alvah H. Unthank was a 19-year-old pioneer travelling the Oregon who died of Cholera at a spot near the Dave Johnson Power Plant outside Glendrock in July, 1850. </p><p>One of many such tragic deaths on the trails.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52ntsmQNiEqcNv8jLu5tfPvN92EIEpGk0oYKsxfJ5nsNAriTiPm8WgQAPoO3hXrmGLQC-2WNiRBlD-oKzW1Y9G4aSsHTy-VGQYtHNTOe8TtO_sjaSu9Jq9SeRs5vRNMRplLVrH9VE0ZQloWAcLa5aJaHZFuQ_ixMVfsalLGGaZmcJiEGzM36AO9hj/s7360/IMGP1673.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7360" data-original-width="4912" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52ntsmQNiEqcNv8jLu5tfPvN92EIEpGk0oYKsxfJ5nsNAriTiPm8WgQAPoO3hXrmGLQC-2WNiRBlD-oKzW1Y9G4aSsHTy-VGQYtHNTOe8TtO_sjaSu9Jq9SeRs5vRNMRplLVrH9VE0ZQloWAcLa5aJaHZFuQ_ixMVfsalLGGaZmcJiEGzM36AO9hj/w428-h640/IMGP1673.JPG" width="428" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Casper and the Petroleum Industry.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-21.html" target="_blank">July 21, 1922. Trigger law announcement.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-29.html?spref=bl" target="_blank">July 29, 2022. Retirement of Pete Williams.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-13.html" target="_blank">August 13, 1922. Newspapers added.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-15.html" target="_blank">August 15, 1922. Newspaper added.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-16.html" target="_blank">August 16, 2022. Primary Election</a>.</p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2013/08/august-23.html" target="_blank">August 23, 1942. Bear mauling in Yellowstone.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/10/october-9.html" target="_blank">October 9, 1922. Bureau of Indian Affairs gives permission for Native American actors from Wind River to act.</a></p><p><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/11/november-3.html" target="_blank">November 3, 1942. The Election of 1942.</a></p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-86713822383541507772022-09-09T04:18:00.002-06:002022-09-09T04:18:10.667-06:00Lex Anteinternet: Offensive place names in Wyoming renamed.<a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2022/09/offensive-place-names-in-wyoming-renamed.html?spref=bl"></a><blockquote><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2022/09/offensive-place-names-in-wyoming-renamed.html?spref=bl">Lex Anteinternet: Offensive place names in Wyoming renamed.</a>: The following Wyoming place names were renamed by the Federal Government in Wyoming, after the old place names were found to be offensive. ...</blockquote><p>The list is linked in on the other site. For some reason, it won't publish in a visible form here. </p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378211050101354121.post-77336009649413946142022-08-10T05:08:00.001-06:002022-08-10T05:08:05.130-06:00Wyoming Public Radio's Bob Beck to Retire.<p>Bob "Butter Bob" Beck of Wyoming Public Radio, a giant in Wyoming radio, will be retiring in October and moving to Syracuse, New York with his fiancé. He's been at the University of Wyoming based radio station since 1988.</p><p>He has covered Wyoming via radio longer than any other broadcaster.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0