Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Curious Case of Lieutenant Hugh Fleming

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Curious Case of Lieutenant Hugh Fleming: The Grattan Massacre, Aug 19, 1854, is often listed as the event that started the Indian wars on the plains. Anyone who is interested in ...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Butch - Sundance, and the Wild Bunch

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Butch - Sundance, and the Wild Bunch: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, two of the best know outlaws of the American West. Best known, but not that well known until the movie...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming and the Military

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming and the Military: Starting with Fort Laramie in 1849 Wyoming has a long history of positive involvement with the military. On the grounds of Fort Laramie ...

Overland Trail

Lex Anteinternet: American Guide Week. 1941

Lex Anteinternet: American Guide Week. 1941:

From this week, in 1941.



Anyone ever see a copy?

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming's First School

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming's First School: Being an old school teacher, I am always interested in reading about early day schools and especially the schools of Wyoming. Like many...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Fort Laramie - Protecting the West

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Fort Laramie - Protecting the West: In 1834, it was Fort William named after post founder, trapper/trader William Sublette.By 1841, the post was owned by the American Fur Co...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Jim Bridger Trail

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Jim Bridger Trail: In 1862, gold was discovered in Virginia City, Montana Territory. Gold seekers, businessmen, thieves and get rich schemers quickly followed...

Lex Anteinternet: Who makes up the legislature

Lex Anteinternet: Who makes up the legislature: Joan Barrons of the Casper Star Tribune wrote a very interesting article that was published in last Sunday's CST regarding the makeup of...

Churches of the West: Blog Mirror: This Day In Wyoming History: Dedicat...

Churches of the West: Blog Mirror: This Day In Wyoming History: Dedicat...: Today marks the 100th anniversary of the dedication of Wyoming’s first synagogue – Mt. Sinai in Cheyenne.

Lex Anteinternet: The City of Casper Smoking Ballot Issue

Lex Anteinternet: The City of Casper Smoking Ballot Issue: REFERENDUM BALLOT PROPOSITION ON ORDINANCE NO. 15-13:   AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 8.16 OF THE CASPER MUNI...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: 5 Periods of Wyoming History

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: 5 Periods of Wyoming History: Wyoming historians divide the history of the state into five periods. Thought it might be fun to take those five periods and try to list my...

Painted Bricks: Casper's Iris to become a civic auditorium.

Painted Bricks: Casper's Iris to become a civic auditorium.:   The Iris, a recently closed Casper downtown movie theater. The association that's been backing a civil auditorium announced yes...

Lex Anteinternet: Trimming $200,000,000

(This item was also added as an update to the October 7 entry here).



Lex Anteinternet: Trimming $200,000,000:   Rainy Day in Cheyenne . Yesterday Governor Mead announced that he intends to trim $200,000,000 from next year's budget.  That&#3

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Lex Anteinternet: The disappearnce of the bridging company and the r...

Lex Anteinternet: The disappearnce of the bridging company and the r...: Yesterday a spokesman for the Wyoming Army National Guard announced that the 1041st Multi-Role Bridge Company will soon cease to exist. Th...

Lex Anteinternet: Lawyer population growth

Lex Anteinternet: Lawyer population growth: The ABA reports: The ABA chart generally measures the population of both active and resident lawyers as of Dec. 31, 2014. It shows the ...

Lex Anteinternet: Airmail & Airway Beacons in Wyoming

Lex Anteinternet: Airmail & Airway Beacons in Wyoming

Painted Bricks: The Mysterious Monumental Architecture in Cheyenne...

Painted Bricks: The Mysterious Monumental Architecture in Cheyenne...: I go to Cheyenne a fair amount but it's only recently that I've noticed some interesting monumental architecture in the town, and so...

Some Gave All: Cheyenne Wyoming's Buffalo Soldier Monument, Verno...

Some Gave All: Cheyenne Wyoming's Buffalo Soldier Monument, Verno...: These are photographs of a small park in  Cheyenne Wyoming, just off of F. E. Warren Air Force Base, which was formerly Ft. F. E. Warren...

Some Gave All: Frank Wenger Holliday Memorial, Cheyenne Wyoming.

Does anyone here know the story behind this memorial?

Frank Wenger Holliday Memorial, Cheyenne Wyoming.

This is an unusual private memorial on a small, traffic island, park in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  I had thought it might be a war memorial, but it is instead a memorial to the thirteen year old son, Frank, of Cal and Rudolphia Holliday.  Cal Holliday was a Cheyenne businessman and mayor in the city's early days. What happened to the Holliday's young son I do not know.

This unusual memorial is just off of the downtown business district of Cheyenne in its historic district.  This post is clearly off topic.

Some Gave All: Horseshoe Creek Station, Wyoming

Horseshoe Creek Station, Wyoming

Another Wyoming highway marker that's on the old highway, rather than the Interstate Highway. This marker is south of Glendo Wyoming.

Some Gave All: Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail, 1868-1887

Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail, 1868-1887

This post is somewhat off topic here, but this is a marker for the Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail.  The marker is on the old state  highway, but is visible in terms of its location from the present
Interstate Highway.  It's north of Cheyenne.

Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: Some Gave All: James Bridger's Ferry...

Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: Some Gave All: James Bridger's Ferry...: I generally try not to post an entry on one of our (less published on) blogs entact here, save for courthouse and church photographic entri...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming's Sheep Industry

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming's Sheep Industry: By the early 1880s, cattlemen were starting to see more and more sheep being brought into eastern Wyoming. Some accepted them but many, som...

Lex Anteinternet: Coming back to the past: Vince Crolla

Coming back to the past: Vince Crolla

An article on Vince Crolla, who took a different path than most law school graduates and is now the archivist at Casper College's Western History Center.

A very nice fellow, I met him when I gave a talk on my book up there.

I'd note that as archival material, old law books (those are in the CC collection), don't have much value any more, or at least that'd be my view. With everything on Westlaw and Lexus, the need to maintain a library of case books, which is what those are, has pretty much vanished.

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Gannett Peak Wyoming

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Gannett Peak Wyoming: Gannett Peak, Wyoming’s highest mountain, reaches 13,785 feet. The Peak is more than 10,000 feet higher than Wyoming’s lowest point on ...

Lex Anteinternet: Is it smokey in here?

Lex Anteinternet: Is it smokey in here?: I ran this item last week, at the time that the Casper City Council reinstated a complete ban on smoking in public buildings, following...

Lex Anteinternet: Today In Wyoming's History: September 8

Lex Anteinternet: Today In Wyoming's History: September 8: Today In Wyoming's History: September 8 : 2015  In a controversial move, the Casper City Counsel reinstated a tavern and restau...

Lex Anteinternet: A few Labor Day observations.

Lex Anteinternet: A few Labor Day observations.: World War Two vintage Labor Day poster, produced by the Office of War Information. Labor Day was made a Federal holiday in 1886, when ...

Today In Wyoming's History: August 19

Today In Wyoming's History: August 19: 1854  Lt. John L. Grattan, 6th U.S. Infantry, and thirty of his men are killed by Sioux Indians at at location on the Oregon Trail not far f...

Update

2015   Lex Anteinternet: And the band played on. . .well maybe not so much

Earlier this week we ran this:

Lex Anteinternet: And the band played on:
In Saturday's Tribune an article appeared noting, again, the loss of over 3,000 oil industry jobs in Wyoming, and a 50% reduction i...

Yesterday (August 19), however, Governor Mead sang a different tune, and one that wasn't nearly so rosy.  We have to given him credit for that. Mead, in a press conference flaty stated that Wyoming is entering a "difficult period" and that the State may need to consider tapping into its "rainy day" funds. For those who might not be aware of what those are, they're funds that the state specifically puts aside for stressed times.

Governors do not, to my recollection, ever suggest this. That's truly a dramatic statement for a sitting Governor, indicating just how dire the state's condition may be.  That Mead would suggest considering it speaks very much in his favor, as this has tended to be something that simply isn't discussed.  Reactions to the Governor's speech have been generally favorable, although there's no present support for actually tapping into the funds.  Mead, of course, wasn't requesting to do so right now, only indicating that it might become necessary.