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Wyoming Fact and Fiction: A Few Thoughts on History – From an Old History Te...

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Red Dirt In My Soul: Ranchlife In Wyoming: Help!

In case somebody can help:

Help!

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Carol

A while back I had a reader comment with this:
“Carol, I am 92 and my father, William H. Small, owned two ranches near Ten Sleep . . .

It seemed wet

The Casper Star Tribune is reporting that:

Wyoming’s three main winter months – December through February – were the wettest in the state’s recorded history, according to the National Weather Service.

Almost 5.5 inches of precipitation fell on the state this season, breaking the previous record of 4.93 inches set in 1898.

It seemed wet, that's for sure.

And its not really over yet.

 

Wyoming Experiences a Population Decline for the first time since 1990

The Casper Star Tribune is reporting that:

Wyoming’s population contracted for the first time in nearly three decades, likely because people left the state for work elsewhere, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau and state.

In July, 585,501 people called the Cowboy State home, a decrease of 0.2 percent from July 2015, or 1,054 fewer Wyomingites.

We always have a transient population, and surely this came as no surprise to anyone who watched how heated the oil and gas fields became in the last few years.  Many of the workers who came in at that time expressed an intent to return home when they could, and they no doubt did.

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Lex Anteinternet: 1917 The Year that made Casper what it is. Or ma...

From one of our companion blogs:

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Added, we'd note, the Sidebars here on this site.

Lex Anteinternet: Czar Nicholas abdicates.

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Lex Anteinternet: Today In Wyoming's History: February 23. The Past...

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Lex Anteinternet: Getting a clue

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Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Antelope Charlie Belden - Wyoming Photographer

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Farson Scenes

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Little Sandy Crossing, Sweetwater County, Wyoming.

This is a State of Wyoming monument to the Little Sandy Crossing in Sweetwater County, near Farson.   

Pony Express Monuments, Farson Wyoming

One of the disadvantages of taking these photos the way I do, on a catch as catch can basis, is that you get some truly lousy photographs that way. Weather and light conditions can simply be against you. But, on the passing by basis I take these, there's not much I can do about that as a rule.  I've driven past these monuments to the Pony Express at Farson a few times, but this is the first time I had time to stop and take a picture.  Unfortunately these late afternoon, sub zero photographs, are not good, and there isn't much I could do about it.

While you could never tell from this bad light photograph, this 2003 monument to the Pony Express shows to riders greeting each other on a starry night.  The winter snow has obscured, and dirtied, the monument.  If I have a  chance to photograph it again in morning light, I will.  The top of the monument says "East meets West".

This is an older State of Wyoming monument to the Pony Express which also notes the Big Sandy Station that was once on this location.

This monument to the Big Sandy Station was dedicated at the same time, and by the same donors, as the East Meets West monument. For some reason, this one looks just as clean as when it was dedicated, while the East Meets West monument does not.

The Ice Slough

Ice Slough, Fremont County, Wyoming

The Ice Slough, or what I used to always hear people around here refer it by, the "Icey Slough".

Some Gave All: Pony Express Monuments, Farson Wyoming

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Some Gave All: Little Sandy Crossing, Sweetwater County, Wyoming....

Some Gave All: Little Sandy Crossing, Sweetwater County, Wyoming....: This is a State of Wyoming monument to the Little Sandy Crossing in Sweetwater County, near Farson.

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Snow and the Blizzard of 1887

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Lex Anteinternet: Seventy Five years ago today.

Lex Anteinternet:
Seventy Five years ago today.: Seventy Five years ago today.

Some Gave All: Sweetwater Station, Freemont County Wyoming.

Some Gave All: Sweetwater Station, Freemont County Wyoming.:

There's a highway rest station on top of Beaver Rim at Sweetwater Station that I've stopped in a million times, but I've never photographed it before.  Probably because there's always been a lot of
people there and I felt self conscious about it.  Anyhow, the other day I went through and it was just me, so I took these photos with my Iphone.

The photos here will be left large so that the details on the signs can be read.  I didn't do a very good job of photographing them while there, but it was relatively early in the day and light conditions were not idea.

This is a converging location on the trail and a lot of different things are significant about the spot.  It's a significant Oregon Trial spot in and of itself.  It was also the location of an Army post, protecting the trail, during the 1860s.  Lt. Caspar Collins, who lost his life famously leading a mixed company at the Battle of Platte Bridge Station, was stationed at Sweetwater Station.

Lex Anteinternet: The November 1916 Election in Wyoming

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Posted late, due to a pre posting glitch.



By now, I'm sure everyone is sick of reading about elections. . . probably even century old ones.

Some Gave All: Owen Wister Monument, Medicine Bow Wyoming

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Lex Anteinternet: The 2016 Election

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Lex Anteinternet: Rally for Public Lands, Casper Wyoming, November 5...

Rally for Public Lands, Casper Wyoming, November 5, 2016

 



 Rally for Public Lands:

 Join Us!

—WHEN—

Saturday, November 5th

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

—WHERE—

Izaak Walton League,

4205 Fort Caspar Road

—WHAT—

Live music, keynote speakers, food & drinks!

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New Sidebar: Lex Anteinternet: The Wyoming National Guard and the Punitive Expedion

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Today In Wyoming's History: September 27. Disasters and ships.

From Today In Wyoming's History: September 27:

1923  Thirty railroad passengers were killed when a CB&Q train
wrecked at the Cole Creek Bridge, which had been washed out due to a
flood, in Natrona County.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical
Society.

1944 USS Natrona, a Haskell class attack transport, launched.

There's something in the county memorializing the latter (the ship's wheel, in the old courthouse), but not the former.

Such an awful disaster, you'd think there might be.

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Some Gave All: Mormon Pioneer Memorial, Lyman Wyoming.

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This is a Mormon Pioneer Memorial at the rest stop in Lyman, Wyoming. 
It was obviously originally a private memorial and was likely moved to
its current location after the rest stop was built and Interstate 80
altered the original path of the Lincoln Highway.

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: A Ride With The President

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Holscher's Hub: Buffalo Bill Museum, Cody Wyoming

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Holscher's Hub: Cody Firearms Museum, Cody Wyoming

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