Updates for January and February, 2020

 January 1, 1920 Gasoline Alley from the Chicago Times.  Gasoline Alley was first published in 1919 and is still in publication.  It's characters age, and die, in real time.

1.  January 1, 1920:  Item on the Palmer Raids updated.

2.  January 2, 1920.  Palmer Raids.

3.  January 10, 1920.  End of World War One, Wyoming soldier in Siberia.

4.  January 14, 1920.  Materials added on early air tragedy.

5.  January 12, 1995.  Wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park.

6.  January 17, 1920.  Item on Prohibition.

7.  January 20, 1920.  Bert Cole back in the air.

8.  January 26, 1920.  Murder in Natrona County and feeding elk in Teton County

9.  January 28, 1920.  Robert Carey signs 19th Amendment ratification.

10.  February 4, 2020.  State of the Union Address added.

11.  February 5, 2020.  Senate votes to acquit President Trump added.

12.  February 10, 2020. 2020 Legislature convenes, State of the State Address delivered.

13.  February 25, 1920.  Material added on Oil Leasing Act.

Railhead: Former Chicago & Northwester Depot, Lander Wyoming...

Railhead: Former Chicago & Northwester Depot, Lander Wyoming...:

Former Chicago & Northwester Depot, Lander Wyoming.

Up until now, I've somehow managed to miss putting up a photograph of this former Chicago & Northwestern Depot in Lander, Wyoming, which now serves as the Lander Chamber of Commerce building.  That may be because, as these photos suggest, downtown Lander, in spite of Lander being a small town, is pretty crowded in some ways and I missed the depot early on, and had a hard time catching it in a photographic state later.

Indeed, I never really did catch it in an ideal state to be photographed.

Lander was the western most stop on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad.  The line sometimes called itself the "Cowboy Line" and this lent itself to the slogan "where the rails end, the trails begin".  In 1973 the railroad abandoned the stretch of the line between Riverton and Lander, and since then of course it's ceased operation entirely.  The railroad, which like many railroads, was the product of mergers and acquisitions and was doing that right up to the late 1960s when its fortunes began to change.



In Wyoming its line ran astride the Burlington Northern's in many locations but it alone ran on to Lander.  Starting in the early 70s, it began to contract in Wyoming and then pulled out altogether.  The Union Pacific purchased its assets at some point, although its now the case that all of its old rail has been pulled.  Indeed, unless you know that the CNW had once run to Lander, you wouldn't know that Lander had once had rail service at all, let alone that it had it as far back as 1906.