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May 20, 2024 | Photo - A row of officers pay respects to fallen officers - Courtesy City of Rawlins The Rawlins Police Department held a ceremony to honor fallen peace officers last Thursday. President John F. Kennedy, with approval from the 87th Congress, designated May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day in 1961. The
There are towns in Wyoming that are all but forgotten
The 1878 killing of Robert Widdowfield and Tip Vincent was the first double killing of lawmen in Wyoming territory and set Carbon County on a path that is unmatched in terms of grisly crimes and their aftermath.
True West Magazine Old West adventures await across the Cowboy State’s colorful Carbon County Quite likely the most gruesome artifact on exhibit in any museum in Wyoming (maybe the West) is the pair of shoes at the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins. They might appear to be just simple leather shoes, and they are…except that the leather is the skin of Big Nose George Parrott. When on a history tour of Carbon County, Wyoming, a key stop is Encampment’s Grand Encampment Museum, a superior collection of 14 relocated and restored mining camp buildings. Photo by Candy Moulton The skinning c...