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The Sagebrush Philosopher: Merris Barrow and Bill Barlow’s Budget
What does an editor reveal about himself by offering 100-year subscriptions to his brand-new weekly newspaper? That he has a sense of humor? Superhuman energy? Grandiose plans? Perhaps all three.Merris...
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Louise Graf, Jury Foreman and Green River Citizen
In May 1950, Louise Spinner Graf served as foreman of a jury in a murder trial in Green River, Wyo.—the first jury in Wyoming, with one minor exception, to include women since the early 1870s, when...
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“Those Damn Women:” Louise Graf and Women on Wyoming Juries
On May 9, 1950, a court in Green River, Wyo. found Otto Long guilty of second-degree murder. Long's attorney, Walter Muir Sr., complained, "I'd never have lost if it hadn't been for those damn women on...
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Alice Morris: Mapping Yellowstone’s Trails
Mrs. Robert C. Morris of New York is an authority on Western fishing. ... In the Winter she lives on Fifth Avenue, and goes to the opera, and rides in her limousine, and does the other things that city...
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Bombardier Conservationist: Tom Bell and the High Country News
In 1973 in Lander, Wyo., a father faced a difficult choice: Buy rubber boots to get his daughter through the Wyoming snows? Or continue pouring family funds into his newspaper and its quixotic...
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Battling Monopoly: Northern Utilities and the Casper Star-Tribune
Some readers may have thought the Casper Star-Tribune's front-page headline on April 1, 1984, was just an April Fool's prank: "Gas customers pay extra $5.8 million for nothing." It sounded far-fetched,...
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Yellowstone Park, Arnold Hague and the Birth of National Forests
No logging, no grazing—even no trespassing? The Yellowstone Timber Land Reserve, the first land to be set aside in what evolved into today’s National Forest system, had a distinctly different character...
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Conservation politics: ‘Triple A’ Anderson and the Yellowstone Forest Reserve
A.A. Anderson’s favorite self-description was “artist-hunter.” In his autobiography he wrote, “The two ruling passions of my life have always been hunting and painting.” But Anderson, who founded the...
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Louise Graf, Jury Foreman and Green River Citizen
In May 1950, Louise Spinner Graf served as foreman of a jury in a murder trial in Green River, Wyo.—the first jury in Wyoming, with one minor exception, to include women since the early 1870s, when...
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“Those Damn Women:” Louise Graf and Women on Wyoming Juries
On May 9, 1950, a court in Green River, Wyo. found Otto Long guilty of second-degree murder. Long's attorney, Walter Muir Sr., complained, "I'd never have lost if it hadn't been for those damn women on...
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Alice Morris: Mapping Yellowstone’s Trails
Mrs. Robert C. Morris of New York is an authority on Western fishing. ... In the Winter she lives on Fifth Avenue, and goes to the opera, and rides in her limousine, and does the other things that city...
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Bombardier Conservationist: Tom Bell and the High Country News
In 1973 in Lander, Wyo., a father faced a difficult choice: Buy rubber boots to get his daughter through the Wyoming snows? Or continue pouring family funds into his newspaper and its quixotic...
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Battling Monopoly: Northern Utilities and the Casper Star-Tribune
Some readers may have thought the Casper Star-Tribune's front-page headline on April 1, 1984, was just an April Fool's prank: "Gas customers pay extra $5.8 million for nothing." It sounded far-fetched,...
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Life on the Home Front: Wyoming During World War I
In late November 1917, seven months after the United States entered World War I, a high school teacher in Powell, Wyo., was asked to resign because she was a pacifist. The Nov. 22, 1917, Powell Leader...
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‘Noted Beauty Coming:’ Suffragist Campaigns Across Wyoming
“Noted beauty coming,” declared the Laramie Republican in its October 1916 headline advancing Inez Milholland’s appearance in Cheyenne.Accustomed to having her good looks noticed before her formidable...
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Wyoming’s Long-lived Bucking Horse
Wyoming’s well-known bucking-horse-and-rider logo has changed many times since soldiers first used it on airplanes, arms and equipment in World War I France. Nor were all its versions modeled on the...
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Yellowstone Park, Arnold Hague and the Birth of National Forests
No logging, no grazing—even no trespassing? The Yellowstone Timber Land Reserve, the first land to be set aside in what evolved into today’s National Forest system, had a distinctly different character...
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Conservation politics: ‘Triple A’ Anderson and the Yellowstone Forest Reserve
A.A. Anderson’s favorite self-description was “artist-hunter.” In his autobiography he wrote, “The two ruling passions of my life have always been hunting and painting.” But Anderson, who founded the...
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1924: The Year the Banks Closed
When a person puts her money in a bank, she’s confident it will be there when she comes back. In the meantime the bank doesn’t just keep the money in a drawer. It uses it, lends it out most likely, to...
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Cheyenne, Magic City of the Plains
Union Pacific locomotives still rumble through Cheyenne, as they first did 150 years ago. But after the railroad arrived in November 1867, skeptics questioned whether the town would last, as so many...
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