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The Double H Bar in Teton County hosts nearly 40,000 visitors for sleigh rides every season. In addition to elk, passengers routinely see bison, moose, coyotes, bald eagles, trumpeter swans, ravens and other wildlife.

When Wyoming was a very new state, it was granted statehood on July 10 of 1890, there was a fight over who owned a strip of land, known as the McKinney Strip, which both the city of Buffalo and the Department of the Interior claimed as their own. Buffalo wanted it to expand the town, and Dept. of th

November 11 is Veteran’s Day, also called Armistice Day, which was the cease fire between the Allies and those aligned with Germany during WWI. November was also the month in 1867, when many of the Indian tribes came together at Fort Laramie to negotiate the Fort Laramie Treaty, which was signed on

Around Wyoming, Monday, January 2

Sunday, July 10, is Wyoming’s 132 anniversary of statehood. On July 10, 1890, Wyoming became the 44th state to enter the union. It was preceded by Idaho, on July 3, and followed by Utah, six years later, on Jan. 4, 1896. It is interesting to note that two of the events that have made Wyoming famo

Sculptures by Michael Thomas in Buffalo depicting the Johnson County War Last week we looked at some of the events leading up to the Johnson County Cattle War, the rustlers and small cattlemen vs the large, rich, cattle barons who felt the open range should be for their cattle alone. Last week