Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming History - Top Ten Politicians

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Railhead: Ames Monument, Albany County Wyoming

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Some Gave All: Henry B. Joy Memorial, Interstate 80, Albany Count...

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Some Gave All: The Overland Trail, Albany County Wyoming

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Some Gave All: Ft. Sanders, Wyoming.

Some Gave All: Ft. Sanders, Wyoming.: This is one of the more disappointing items I've posted here, as the location itself is disappointing.  This is the site of the form...

Some Gave All: Abraham Lincoln Memorial, Interstate 80, Wyoming

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Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming History - Virginia Cole Trenholm

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Some Gave All: Tie Hack Memorial, Shoshone National Forest, Wyomiing

Some Gave All: Tie Hack Memorial, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming

This memorial to tie hacks is located about twelve miles north of Dubois
Wyoming along the state highway. The scenery nearby is quite
spectacular.

Some Gave All: Green River Rendezvous Site, Sublette County Wyoming

Some Gave All: Green River Rendezvous Site, Sublette County Wyoming:

Really off topic here, and more deserving to be on one of our other blogs such as Today In Wyoing's History, this is the Sublette County Museum Board's marker for the site of the Green River Rendezvous.

Some Gave All: Split Rock, Wyoming

Some Gave All: Split Rock, Wyoming

Lex Anteinternet: Happy (one day late) birthday Jeep!

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Lex Anteinternet: Wyoming should adopt subsistance hunting regulatio...

Lex Anteinternet: Wyoming should adopt subsistance hunting regulatio...: Alaska has them. Canada also has them for "first nation" and Metis hunters. Subsistance huning is hunting which is, by...

Lex Anteinternet: What are you reading?

Lex Anteinternet: What are you reading?: A new trailing thread, dedicated to what we're currently reading. And. . . we hope. . . with participation from you. What are you...

Lex Anteinternet: What are you reading?

Over on our most active blog, Lex Anteinternet: What are you reading?:

What are you reading?

A new trailing thread, dedicated to what we're currently reading.

And. . . we hope. . . with participation from you.

What are you reading right  now? Add it down in the commentary section
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June 21, 2016

Give Me Eighty Men

I'm presently reading Give Me Eighty Men by Shannon Smith. It's a history of the Fetterman Fight, and a history of the history of the Fetterman Fight. I'll review it when I'm done, but I'll note that the favorable mention of the book by the authors of The Heart of All That Is caused me to pick it up, even though I'd been inclined to previously avoid it.

So far, I'm enjoying it, and its certainly raising a lot questions in my mind about the Fetterman battle, although I'm reserving my judgment on various things so far.

Stop over and let us know what you're reading!

That thread:  What Are You Reading?

Lex Anteinternet: Welcome Home PFC Harold Schultz, USMC

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Lex Anteinternet: The Punitive Expedition by mid June, 1916. Where ...

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Lex Anteinternet: More Monday At The Bar. U.S. Supreme Court: The ...

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Lex Anteinternet: Additional Monday at the Bar. Lex Anteinternet: T...

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Lex Anteinternet: Golf returns to the Olymics for the first time sin...

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Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Yellowstone and The First Visitors

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Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Old West Gamblers and Beer

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Blog Mirror: MeridethinWyoming He Gave All for Eternity

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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

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WHEELS THAT WON THE WEST®: Preserving History

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Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming And The Railroad

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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

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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 . . .

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