Wyoming songs: State Anthem.
This is the one I had to learn in grade school. It's still the state anthem, but you never hear it anymore. When my kids went through grade school they weren't taught it.
The song was written by Judge Charles E. Winter, whom one of my aunts had worked for when she was a teenager. He'd had quite a career, having been Wyoming's Congressman and later Governor of Puerto Rico. He returned to practicing law in Casper and was therefore one of those examples of lawyers who seemingly never retire.
He was also multi talented. In addition to being a songwriter, he was a novelist, with one of his novels having been made into a movie several times. His son, Warren, was still practicing when I was first a lawyer, and was nearly 100 when he died. He also never retired.
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