Bonneville Cabins, Fremont County Wyoming

Lex Anteinternet: Speed Goat: Local beer makes good. . . really goo...

Lex Anteinternet: Speed Goat: Local beer makes good. . . really goo...: Casper Brewery Advertisement from 1914, the year the brewery commenced operations. When I was a kid, it was sort of a matter of local ...

Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: Beanies, Brooms and Bother: UW Fresh...

Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: Beanies, Brooms and Bother: UW Fresh...: November of last year (no doubt the result of mining newspapers for entries on World War One and the ongoing crisis with Mexico), I posted ...

Lex Anteinternet: ENDOW Study Released

Lex Anteinternet: ENDOW Study Released: And here it is: The ENDOW Study. I haven't read it yet. If you have, what's your opinion?

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election Volume Five: On To The ...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election Volume Five: On To The ...: Some of these signs will be coming down after the first entry on this thread on August 21, 2018. The polls will be opening in one hour...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election Volume Five: On To The ...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election Volume Five: On To The ...: Some of these signs will be coming down after the first entry on this thread on August 21, 2018. The polls will be opening in one hour...

Lex Anteinternet: I became so preoccupied with the 2018 Primary Elec...

Lex Anteinternet: I became so preoccupied with the 2018 Primary Elec...: which of course took place on the same Tuesday on the calendar. So what was going on? Well, the following Casper newspaper from 1918 giv...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election Volume Five: On To The ...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election Volume Five: On To The ...: Some of these signs will be coming down after the first entry on this thread on August 21, 2018. The polls will be opening in one hour...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election Volume Five: On To The ...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election Volume Five: On To The ...: Some of these signs will be coming down after the first entry on this thread on August 21, 2018. The polls will be opening in one hour...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four: Yep, on to volume four.  Volume three reached the point where a single update took up an entire first page, so it was time to add a new vo...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four: Yep, on to volume four.  Volume three reached the point where a single update took up an entire first page, so it was time to add a new vo...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four: Yep, on to volume four.  Volume three reached the point where a single update took up an entire first page, so it was time to add a new vo...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four: Yep, on to volume four.  Volume three reached the point where a single update took up an entire first page, so it was time to add a new vo...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four: Yep, on to volume four.  Volume three reached the point where a single update took up an entire first page, so it was time to add a new vo...

Lex Anteinternet: Albert Nelson and D. C. Nowlin. Folks we owe. A ...

Lex Anteinternet: Albert Nelson and D. C. Nowlin. Folks we owe. A ...: Last week I put up a photograph of Harry Yount, a legendary frontiersman who is sometimes claimed to be the first Game Warden in Wyoming. ...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four: Yep, on to volume four.  Volume three reached the point where a single update took up an entire first page, so it was time to add a new vo...

Lex Anteinternet: Bells of Balangiga to depart

Bells of Balangiga to depart

Gen. Jacob Smith inspects the ruins of Balangiga a few weeks after the battle there.

The Bells of Balangiga, war trophies from the Spanish American War, are going back to the Philippines, according to a government press release.

The bells have long been a matter of contention between the United States and the Philippines.  The 9th Infantry, which took the bells, maintained that it was ambushed in the locality, where it was garrisoned, and the bells symbolized its defense of itself from a surprise treacherous attack.  The Philippines have asserted the battle represented an uprising of the indigenous population against occupation and that the conclusion of the battle featured the killing of villagers without justification.  Both versions of the event may be correct in that it was a surprise attack on a unit stationed in the town and, by that point in the war, 1901, it had begun to take on a gruesome character at times.

Whatever the case may be, the bells, from three Catholic Churches, have long been sought to be returned.  Two of the bells are at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, which which the 9th Infantry had later been stationed at when it was Ft. D. A. Russell, and a third has been kept in Alaska.  It would appear that they're now going to go back to the churches from which they came in the Philippines, almost certainly accompanied by at least some vocal protestations from Wyoming's representation in Congress, I suspect.  As the current Wyoming connection with the 9th Infantry, let alone the Philippine Insurrection, is pretty think, it's unlikely that the average Wyomingite, however, will care much.  Indeed, while it caused its own controversy, a former head of a veteran's position in the state came out for returning the bells the last time this controversy rolled around a few years ago.

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four

Lex Anteinternet: The 2018 Wyoming Election. Volume Four: Yep, on to volume four.  Volume three reached the point where a single update took up an entire first page, so it was time to add a new vo...