My children weren’t exactly thrilled when we announced that we were taking a road trip to Rock Springs, Wyoming. Fortunately there was no mutiny. They became a little interested when we crossed the border into Wyoming and began seeing “Little …
Category: Wyoming
Cody, Wyoming: Forever West by Terry Zinn
While strolling main street in Cody, Wyoming I came across a neon sign, “Long Live Cowboys.” Cody is proud of its western heritage, exemplified in this sign. However, Cody has gone a step farther and the sign could read, “Long …
Lander, Wyoming, A Beautiful Serendipity by Bonnie and Bill Neely
NOLS is an experienced Outdoor Survival School, headquartered in Lander and known world-wide for the classes offered in many other wilderness places. The Wind River range here offers a great place to learn how to survive in many challenging situations …
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The Beauty of Wyoming by Olga Straatsma
If you want to be close to the wild nature, to feel the wind of Freedom in the morning, to ride a beautiful horse on the prairie, to try to find peace in your soul, then, Wyoming is a place …
FORT BRIDGER LIVES AGAIN by Dean & Nancy Hoch
Have a hankerin’ to experience some great, old-West history? Try Southwestern Wyoming’s Fort Bridger State Historic Site. A visitor pamphlet states that in 1841 mountain man and explorer, Jim Bridger, said to some would-be suppliers on the Oregon Trail, “I …
Something for Everyone in the New – Old West by Linda Ballou
At the Spotted Horse Ranch, just sixteen miles south of Jackson, greenhorns of all stripes mounted on their new best friends climbed steadily up a shady draw lined with pink wild rose and blue harebell. The intense thrum of the …
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Single Parenting Down the Snake River by Brenda Elwell
The alarm went off at 5:00am. After three leisurely days of hiking and sightseeing through Yellowstone National Park it was a rude awakening. The day before, we had left Yellowstone for the brief drive south to Grand Teton National Park, …
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