Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Yellowstone and The First Visitors

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Yellowstone and The First Visitors: With all the crazy goings on in Yellowstone this summer, it would be nice to see some more positive news of, and from the park. News about ...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Old West Gamblers and Beer

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Old West Gamblers and Beer: Faro and Warm Beer I’m not sure how many times, hundreds if not thousands, I have read or watched on TV or the movies, a poker game i...

Blog Mirror: MeridethinWyoming He Gave All for Eternity

MeridethinWyoming He Gave All for Eternity

This Memorial Day, after visiting the graves of family members, Hubby and I set off to find a special grave in the cemetery. . .

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: School's Out

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: School's Out: School is out in our little town, and kids are going on summer break. The swimming pool opens a half hour after school is dismissed. I reme...

WHEELS THAT WON THE WEST®: Preserving History

WHEELS THAT WON THE WEST®: Preserving History: At some point, most collectors have been asked the question – “Why do you collect the things you do?”  There can be any number of reasons b...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming And The Railroad

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming And The Railroad: The month of May is important for railroad historians in Wyoming. Tomorrow, marks the anniversary, May 9, 1868,  of the tracks for the Unio...

Lex Anteinternet: The Wyoming Economy. Looking at it in a different...

Lex Anteinternet: The Wyoming Economy. Looking at it in a different...:    Big Horn foothills. There's a reason why I've posted this here, but you'll have to slog through the post to discover why. ...

Lex Anteinternet: The ghost of the Crow Treaty of 1868 appears in a ...

Lex Anteinternet: The ghost of the Crow Treaty of 1868 appears in a ...: The Casper Star Tribune reported that today the trial of Clayvin Herrera, a game warden on the Crow Reservation in southern Montana, commen...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: War-Paint Not Always

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: War-Paint Not Always: War-Paint? Whenever the term war-paint is mentioned I tend to cringe. Native tribes in the west used paint, but doing battle with anoth...

Lex Anteinternet: What the crud, is this the This Day in 1916 blog o...

Lex Anteinternet: What the crud, is this the This Day in 1916 blog o...: Geez Louise!  First the Punitive Expedition , then all these 1916 newspapers, then the Easter Rebellion , and now the first Anzac Day, what ...

Lex Anteinternet: And now state government . . .

Lex Anteinternet: And now state government . . .:     The Wyoming State Capitol the way many of us see it, over the hoods of our pickups as we are driving in Cheyenne. Yesterday it wa...

Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: Horses for War: A Market for Wyoming...

Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: Horses for War: A Market for Wyoming...: Horses for War: A Market for Wyoming Stockmen Horses for War: A Market for Wyoming Stockmen Horses for War: A Market for Wyoming Stock...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Thoughts on the Impending Spring Blizzard

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Thoughts on the Impending Spring Blizzard: If the weather man is correct, it looks like we are in for another spring storm starting this evening. Prediction for 8-14 inches of heav...

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Marathon, Peabody and the airlin...

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Marathon, Peabody and the airlin...: And the news came today that Marathon has found a buyer for its Wyoming assets, the  topic we first touched upon here: Lex Anteinternet: M...

In Memorium

My mother.  April 23, 1925-April 9, 2016

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016, Part II

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016, Part II: I started this thread at the commencement of the 2016 Election Season: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016 The focus of this blo...

Lex Anteinternet: What the Crud, is this the Casper Daily Press day ...

Lex Anteinternet: What the Crud, is this the Casper Daily Press day ...: I've been posting, as readers are aware, the century old issues of The Casper Daily Press on the anniversary of their publication.  Thi...

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016, Part II

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016, Part II: I started this thread at the commencement of the 2016 Election Season: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016 The focus of this b...

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Waiting for the Storm

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Waiting for the Storm:  The building this morning, I could hardly get here this morning. Yesterday, I was waiting, and posted the same: Lex Anteinternet: ...

Lex Anteinternet: The Punitive Expedition and technology. A 20th Ce...

Lex Anteinternet: The Punitive Expedition and technology. A 20th Ce...: We have, of course, been spending a lot of time with John J. Pershing in Mexico recently.  And of course, as we've been with Pershing, ...

Lex Anteinternet: What the Crud? Is this the Punitive Expedition Da...

Lex Anteinternet: What the Crud? Is this the Punitive Expedition Da...:  Machine gun troop in Mexico. Um, no, it isn't. But, the Punitive Expedition inspired, in a big way, the creation of this blog...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming Forts 1841-1909

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming Forts 1841-1909: The Forts Much has been written and numerous movies and Television programs made, that include forts in the west. Many of these fiction...

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016: The focus of this blog, at least theoretically, is on events of a century ago.  Indeed, the event that really motivated the concept of a no...

Lex Anteinternet: Marathon, Peabody and the airlines

Lex Anteinternet: Marathon, Peabody and the airlines: This past week the state received the bad news that Marathon Oil Company, formerly Ohio Oil Company, which was once headquartered in Casper...

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016: The focus of this blog, at least theoretically, is on events of a century ago.  Indeed, the event that really motivated the concept of a no...

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016: The focus of this blog, at least theoretically, is on events of a century ago.  Indeed, the event that really motivated the concept of a no...

Blog Mirror: “The Great Call Up- Wyoming Moves to the Border, 1916”

 Casper Journal:  “The Great Call Up- Wyoming Moves to the Border, 1916”

The early morning hours before dawn on March 9, 1916 in the sleepy Mexican border town of Columbus, New Mexico were beautiful, clear and star-lit.

Lex Anteinternet: Question for the readers. Source for historical w...

Lex Anteinternet: Question for the readers. Source for historical w...: Is there any source for the weather in any one place in North America for a century or more ago. I.e., if I wanted to know what the weather ...

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016: The focus of this blog, at least theoretically, is on events of a century ago.  Indeed, the event that really motivated the concept of a no...

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016: The focus of this blog, at least theoretically, is on events of a century ago.  Indeed, the event that really motivated the concept of a no...