Annals of Wyoming
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Wyoming
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Wyoming
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File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 2021-08-30
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ISBN : 9780984205592
Beautifully illustrated works of art by the late artist David G. Paulley from a 1990 Wyoming Centennial Project depicting Wyoming's unique historical legacy. New narratives describing each historical event included by Dr. Jeremy M. Johnston.
Author : Candy Vyvey Moulton
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 9780878423156
In Roadside History of Wyoming readers will learn about Native Americans who struggled to adapt to many sudden changes, mountain men who braved the wilderness, emigrants who suffered untold hardships, cattle and sheep drovers who took advantage of the ope
Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416588892
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below," a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer," an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home. In "Brokeback Mountain," the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. These are stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes—confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty—with the more benign values of the new west. Stories in Close Range have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ. They have been selected for the O. Henry Stories 1998 and The Best American Short Stories of the Century and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Wyoming
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Author : Rick Ewig
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 0738595993
The University of Wyoming was founded in 1886, four years prior to statehood. Provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act, also known as the Land Grant College Act, allowed for the teaching of agriculture, mechanic arts, and military tactics but also included literary and scientific studies. With statehood in 1890, the constitution confirmed the establishment of the university, that all students, regardless of gender or race, could attend, and that the cost of instruction "may be as nearly free as possible." From a humble beginning in athletics, UW has excelled in football, basketball, and rodeo and has produced such notable figures as Kenny Sailors and Curt Gowdy. Statewide outreach has always been a focus, resulting in a research center in Grand Teton National Park and agricultural farms in many communities. Wyoming's economy relies heavily on the energy industry, and today, the university is a leader in energy-related education and research. Many of the photographs in Campus History Series: University of Wyoming were taken by long-serving university faculty, providing an interesting glimpse of UW's 125-year history.
Author : James Chisholm
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803258242
"James Chisholm was a staff writer For The Chicago Tribune sent to report on the gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical features of the continent?South Pass on the western trails. His journal, illustrated by himself, Is a graceful, observant narrative full of the real essence of frontier mining camp life."?Library Journal. "Chisholm had a lively sense of humor, An engaging frankness, and a fine eye for landscape. He was also a candid social critic."?Rocky Mountain News. "Lovers of the Old West will buy Chisholm's Journal and never part with it."?Pacific Historical Review. "If South Pass failed to produce gold in the paying quantities James Chisholm's miners thought it would, Chisholm himself produced finer, more lasting gold in his journal account of Wyoming's short-lived gold rush. His journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, Of torrential rain storms and night packing, Of being small in a big land, and of honest, earthy people who, In business-like fashion, went about the task of risking life, limb, health, and what small fortunes they had, To hit the big one. Chisholm sees with unpretentious eyes. His is an honest appraisal from a detached journalist, leavened with self-effacing humor. His prose is clean and clear. it can be read aloud and remembered."?Charles E. Rankin, editor of Montana the Magazine of Western History. Lola M. Homsher was director of the Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department.
Author : Anne MacKinnon
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0826362419
Public Waters shows how, as popular hopes and dreams meet tough terrain, a central idea that has historically structured water management can guide water policy for Western states today.
Author : T. A. Larson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 1990-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803279361
"The History of Wyoming" explains detailed information of territorial and state developments. This second edition also includes the post-World War II chapters containing discussion about the economy, society, culture and politics not included on the previous edition.
Author : Samuel Western
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File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Wyoming
ISBN : 9780943972732
Political, economic history of Wyoming.