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Except for six weeks in the first semester of my senior year (when I went to school at NCHS in Casper), all my pre-college schooling was done in Worland. For some reason, the other day I started thinking about my old teachers and the schools I...

I’ve been watching closely the situation near Burns, Ore., in which armed men took over control of a small federal facility. The underlying dispute here arises because the federal government owns large quantities of land in the West. I’m not sur...

I’m a Peyton Manning fan, although I confess that I wasn’t always a fan. When he played for Indianapolis, I remember yelling at the TV, complaining about that blankety-blank quarterback who was scoring so many points on Denver. But when he sig...

In 2006, the Jim Gatchell Museum Press (Buffalo) published a writing by Gil Bollinger and Scott Burgan titled “Spanish Explorers in Wyoming,” in which the authors looked at evidence regarding the presence of Spaniards in Wyoming in the 18th cen...

I’m a guy who likes a good mystery, as some of you have probably figured out. Back in the late ‘90s, George Frison told me of an intriguing enigma. He said there is an inscription in a stone near Big Trails that appears to be authentic, one that refe...

In the last month or two, I’ve done a lot of traveling, mostly around the Big Horn Basin. September and October are good times to take road trips, because the land is so appealing. How much the leaves have changed depends on altitude and the exact d...

Through the years (and through long diligent application my years have accumulated greatly) I’ve gotten to know a lot of interesting and exceptional people. Though I didn’t know it, this was inevitable given my attendance at Casper College, the Uni...

Usually, scientists are our best hope for ferreting out scientific fact from scientific fiction. They are, or at least should be, professional skeptics, demanding that people prove their assertions. But, with respect to global warming, they seem to...

It’s a wonderful thing to own a house, but it’s distinctly a mixed blessing. My wife and I moved into our home 34 years and 10 months ago and it’s given us great joy and pride. It’s also been a major source of work, worry and expenditures of mass qu...

On a recent Sunday, my wife, Celia, and I decided to undertake an excursion. The trip would have to be short because we had a 5 p. m. dinner scheduled with some friends. I reviewed my mental list of “one of these days” spots – places I’d said to...