Laramie Architecture - Clues to a Naughty Past Laramie began life in 1867 as a hell-on-wheels tent town preceding the Union Pacific Railroad construction. The UP was crawling up the Gangplank between Laramie and Cheyenne, and Laramie was established as a future train stop and to supply [...]
Ashfall State Park Three-toed and one-toed horses milled about the watering hole as crowned cranes and secretary birds stalked reptile prey. The herd of barrel-torso rhinos bullied their way to the water. In the distance, bone-crushing dogs and smaller scavengers waited for one of the animals [...]
Morrison, Colorado Morrison, Colorado is tiny town hiding in the foothills just west of Denver. It is just near enough to Denver to be a trendy day-trip for motorcycle riders but far enough away that Denver's ever burgeoning urban sprawl has not reached it yet. The [...]
Pine Bluffs, Wyoming Pine Bluffs, Wyoming is the first town westbound I-80 travelers pass through as they enter Wyoming. Pine Bluffs bills itself as “The Crossroads of the Plains” and there is evidence that people as far back as 11,000 years ago passed through the area. [...]
Buffalo, Oklahoma - Building a Theater and Community Center with a Community! My gps informed me quite positively that the town I was headed for did not exist. In its polite English voice, it suggested several other towns. I knew the town existed and while it changed [...]
Silent Wings Museum The C-47 rests proudly outside the Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock, Texas, its nose pointed to the sky and its tail pointing directly toward the museum as if preparing to tow it off the ground as it did gliders a lifetime ago during World War II. Known [...]