Sunday, January 26, 2014
Lex Anteinternet: Keeping a Swimming Pool at NCHS
Lex Anteinternet: Keeping a Swimming Pool at NCHS: I was on the Natrona County High School swim team in 1978-1979 and 1979-1980. I might have been in 1980-1981 as well, my senior year, but ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Lex Anteinternet: Governor Hunt's World War Two Correspondence, Hear...
Lex Anteinternet: Governor Hunt's World War Two Correspondence, Hear...: The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming has digitized Wyoming Governor Hunts papers , including correspondence he .received or sent concerning the Internment Camp at Hear Mountain.
Included in these, is a surprising example of somebody writing to the Governor to inquire about receiving a "Japanese girl" for work at her ranch home. She was willing to pay wages, but still, its not something I'd expect to have found anyone inquiring about. A surprising thing to read.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Lex Anteinternet: Watching the Morph. How the news gets spun by the...
Lex Anteinternet: Watching the Morph. How the news gets spun by the...: Wyoming has a very large Indian Reservation, the Wind River Reservation, which is home to part of the Shoshone Tribe* and also home to the ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Wyoming History in the Making: January 6, 2014, Liz Cheney drops out of U.S. Senate race.
Liz Cheney dropped out of the primary campaign for the U.S. Senate citing a health concern within her family. While some rumors indicate that one of her children has developed diabetes, always a serious disease and a particularly worrisome one in children, no official news has disclosed what that concern is.
Cheney, the daughter of former controversial Vice President Dick Cheney, mounted a controversial historic challenge of popular incumbent Mike Enzi. Seeking to find a ground to stand against Enzi, she tacked to the right of Cheney in a campaign which drew a lot of attention, but at the time of her withdrawal was clearly failing.
While an internal party challenge to a sitting incumbent member of Congress from Wyoming isn't unusual, one that is such a serious effort is. It is undoubtedly the most expensive such effort ever mounted in the state, and it started stunningly early. While Cheney failed to gain enough adherents by this stage to make her primary election likely, she did polarize the GOP in the state, which seems to be emerging from a long period of internal unity, and which also seems to be beginning to move away from the Tea Party elements within it, much like the national party is. This could be the beginning of an interesting political era within the state or at least within the state's GOP.
It also served to bring up distinct arguments about who is entitled to run in Wyoming, with Liz Cheney's campaign apparently badly underestimating the degree of state identity born by many Wyomingites. Voters appeared to not accept Cheney as a Wyomingite based upon her long absence from the state and appear to have also misinterpreted Wyoming's long re-election cycle for her father as a species of deep person admiration, rather than an admiration of effectiveness. Late in the campaign she was forced to introduce television advertisements which did nothing other than to point out her family's connection (through her mother, her father was born in Nebraska and spent his early years there) to the state and which were silent on her career as a Virginia lawyer married to a man who is still a Virginia lawyer.
All in all, this early primary effort will likely remain a fairly unique historical episode in the state's history, but potentially one with some long term impacts.
Cheney, the daughter of former controversial Vice President Dick Cheney, mounted a controversial historic challenge of popular incumbent Mike Enzi. Seeking to find a ground to stand against Enzi, she tacked to the right of Cheney in a campaign which drew a lot of attention, but at the time of her withdrawal was clearly failing.
While an internal party challenge to a sitting incumbent member of Congress from Wyoming isn't unusual, one that is such a serious effort is. It is undoubtedly the most expensive such effort ever mounted in the state, and it started stunningly early. While Cheney failed to gain enough adherents by this stage to make her primary election likely, she did polarize the GOP in the state, which seems to be emerging from a long period of internal unity, and which also seems to be beginning to move away from the Tea Party elements within it, much like the national party is. This could be the beginning of an interesting political era within the state or at least within the state's GOP.
It also served to bring up distinct arguments about who is entitled to run in Wyoming, with Liz Cheney's campaign apparently badly underestimating the degree of state identity born by many Wyomingites. Voters appeared to not accept Cheney as a Wyomingite based upon her long absence from the state and appear to have also misinterpreted Wyoming's long re-election cycle for her father as a species of deep person admiration, rather than an admiration of effectiveness. Late in the campaign she was forced to introduce television advertisements which did nothing other than to point out her family's connection (through her mother, her father was born in Nebraska and spent his early years there) to the state and which were silent on her career as a Virginia lawyer married to a man who is still a Virginia lawyer.
All in all, this early primary effort will likely remain a fairly unique historical episode in the state's history, but potentially one with some long term impacts.
Sunday, January 5, 2014
New Feature: Wyoming History In The Making
In addition to continuing to post items on individual episodes of Wyoming's rich history here, we will are also starting a new feature in which we'll note something of significant present historical interest.
This is a bit tough, we realize, as many, many stories turn out to be hugely historically significant without that being realized at the time. When the Chinese and Japanese fell into war in 1932, for example, who would have appreciated the extent that this would play into the global tragedy of World War II, or that it would lead to the fall of the Nationalist government in 1947, giving rise to Red China. It turned out to be enormously significant, but at the time it was probably most viewed as a big, but not earth shaking, tragedy.
Anyhow, we'll try to note some stories from time to time that we think will at least have some historical value. That is, they'd be the type of thing you would expect to find on this website in some future daily entry.
This is a bit tough, we realize, as many, many stories turn out to be hugely historically significant without that being realized at the time. When the Chinese and Japanese fell into war in 1932, for example, who would have appreciated the extent that this would play into the global tragedy of World War II, or that it would lead to the fall of the Nationalist government in 1947, giving rise to Red China. It turned out to be enormously significant, but at the time it was probably most viewed as a big, but not earth shaking, tragedy.
Anyhow, we'll try to note some stories from time to time that we think will at least have some historical value. That is, they'd be the type of thing you would expect to find on this website in some future daily entry.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Navigation calendar now up.
We have now added a navigation calendar to this site, so that people looking for any one day may easily hit on that date in the calendar and bring it up.
We are indebted for this feature to This Day In U.S. Military History, which provided the html for this feature to us.
We are indebted for this feature to This Day In U.S. Military History, which provided the html for this feature to us.
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