First Electricity in Early Wyoming, 1882
By Phil Roberts About the same time that inventor Thomas Edison was constructing his Pearl Street station and developing equipment for it, while he was …
Month: January 2022
Telling Steve McQueen How to Shoot Tom Horn
By Phil Roberts, 1/15/22 ….If there is a moral to the story, it would be not to tell a box office star how to shoot …
Gambling, 1950s: Fremont Lake Ice Pool
Betting (and opposition to it) has a long tradition in Wyoming. Take the lottery once conducted over ice on Fremont Lake. In a rather lengthy …
“Welcome to UW”—New Faculty Mud Tour of Southeast Wyoming
Phil Roberts—1/3/22 How do you free a busload of new faculty from being stuck most of the day in the mud behind Como Bluff? Fortunately, …