Some Gave All: March 29 Designated National Vietnam Veterans Day

Some Gave All: March 29 Designated National Vietnam Veterans Day: By an act of Congress signed into law on this day by President Trump, March 29 will hence forth be National Vietnam Veterans Day.

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: A Few Thoughts on History – From an Old History Te...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: A Few Thoughts on History – From an Old History Te...: I mentioned, in a speaking engagement a week ago, that new history consistently replaces older history. Things that happened in the past ...

Red Dirt In My Soul: Ranchlife In Wyoming: Help!

In case somebody can help:

Help!

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Carol

A while back I had a reader comment with this:
“Carol, I am 92 and my father, William H. Small, owned two ranches near Ten Sleep . . .

It seemed wet

The Casper Star Tribune is reporting that:

Wyoming’s three main winter months – December through February – were the wettest in the state’s recorded history, according to the National Weather Service.

Almost 5.5 inches of precipitation fell on the state this season, breaking the previous record of 4.93 inches set in 1898.

It seemed wet, that's for sure.

And its not really over yet.

 

Wyoming Experiences a Population Decline for the first time since 1990

The Casper Star Tribune is reporting that:

Wyoming’s population contracted for the first time in nearly three decades, likely because people left the state for work elsewhere, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau and state.

In July, 585,501 people called the Cowboy State home, a decrease of 0.2 percent from July 2015, or 1,054 fewer Wyomingites.

We always have a transient population, and surely this came as no surprise to anyone who watched how heated the oil and gas fields became in the last few years.  Many of the workers who came in at that time expressed an intent to return home when they could, and they no doubt did.

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming Pioneer Sheep-Man J D Woodruff

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming Pioneer Sheep-Man J D Woodruff: According to my calendar, Spring-2017 started yesterday, and it felt like it. Today seems like we slipped back into the ending days of wint...

Lex Anteinternet: 1917 The Year that made Casper what it is. Or ma...

From one of our companion blogs:

Lex Anteinternet: 1917 The Year that made Casper what it is. Or ma...: I have no before and after pictures for Casper that would cleanly show what the town looked like in January, 1916 and then later looked lik...

Added, we'd note, the Sidebars here on this site.

Lex Anteinternet: Czar Nicholas abdicates.

Lex Anteinternet: Czar Nicholas abdicates.: The Headquarters To the Chief of Staff In the days of the great struggle against the foreign enemy, which almost for three years has t...