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RetractionLast week, we had mis-spellings. All of them were not

Editor Keary Speer’s fault, but Nick De Laat’s, the owner. They were all names, mostly for the Roughriders. They played a great game and the owner covered it. However, he forgot to go over editing of the names after the initial editing had been done. Also, in our public servant article, which we pride ourselves on, we spelled the Sheriff’s name wrong. We would like to extend our greatest apolo-gies to the Sheriff for this mistake. The owner sat down with the sheriff, which he granted the time when he has none, for the article and the owner forgot to change the name.

This is our third retraction, but a big one. We apolo-gize for the lack of quality and will work hard to make sure these mistakes will not happen again. Thank you for the e-mails pointing these mistakes out. We love that feedback, which retains the quality of the product we are producing for our community.

From Owner/editor Nicholas De Laat.

Riders are back-to-back district championsBy Ted Ripko, Basin Radio Sports

In what started out as a heated contest in the 2011 North District American Le-gion Championship game at Roughrider Stadium Saturday, ultimately turned out to be a blowout. Gillette (44-22) won its 2nd consecutive North Dis-trict Championship by beating Sheridan (29-22) for the 5th time this season, 23-11 in 7 innings.

For the 2nd consecutive night the Riders found themselves down early only to come from behind and run away with the

game. Sheridan grabbed an early 2-0 after the 1st. Gillette responded with their 1st 3 runs of the game in the top of 2nd to take their 1st lead only to watch it evaporate in the bottom half of the inning when Sheridan scored 2 more runs to take a 4-3 advantage heading into the top of the 3rd.

That’s when Gillette grabbed the lead back and never relin-quished it again. From the top of the 3rd on Gillette outscored the Troopers 19-8. Gillette’s biggest inning was in the top

of the 6th when they scored 7 runs.

Drake Kelley asked for the ball to start the game on the mound, but struggled early and would be pulled heading into the top of the 3rd inning after giving up 4 runs and 7 hits. Riders Manager didn’t want to take any chances, so he called on Dalton Cowen to take over on the mound. Cowen would end up earning his 3rd win of the season after fi ring his way through 4 innings of 7 hit ball while striking out 5 Troopers.

Cowen not only pitched the Riders to victory, but he also made his presence felt at the plate. Cowen went 5-6 with 5 RBI, including a grand slam in the top of the 5th inning. He also scored 4 of Gillette’s 23 runs.

Drake Kelley once again had a big night at the plate as he drove in 5 runs as well, 3 on a bases clearing double in the 6th inning. Kadison Wass was another Rider who took advan-tage of Sheridan’s pitchers as he went 5-6 with 3 RBI.

And playing in his fi nal game for Gillette before heading off to the Air Force on Monday, Rob-ert Markve made the most of

his only at bat of the night when he rocketed a pitch to the gap in left centerfi eld and ended up with his 2nd triple of the sea-son. He would later score on a sacrifi ce fl y by Kelley.

With the win, Gillette earned the #1 seed out of the North for the 2011 American Legion AA/A State Tournament in Cheyenne beginning on Wednesday, July 27.

The Riders open up State against Torrington (20-30) at 4pm at Power Field, home of the 2-time defending state champion Cheyenne Post 6. Gillette is 2-0 against Torrington this season, outscoring them 25-12 in those two games.

Continued on Page 2

Photos by Nathan Kobielusz of Basin Radio

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Friday, July 29-9 a.m.: Fabric & Fashion Mod-

eling & Judging(PACT), Heritage Center

Saturday, July 30-8 a.m.: Supreme Cow Contest,

Fair Scale Barn

Sunday, July 31-12- 6 p.m.: Jr. Horse Check-In-2-7 p.m.: Camper Check-In-7 p.m.: Joe Nichols in Concert

with Special Guest Danny Gokey, Wyoming Center

Monday, August 1-8 a.m.: Jr. Horse Halter, Show-

manship & Performance, Morning-side Park Arena

Tuesday, August 2-8 a.m.: Jr. Horse Performance,

Morningside Park ArenaAll Jr. Horses released following

show- NO Exceptions-2- 8 p.m.: Barns Open for Equip-

ment Drop-off &Herdsmanship Decorating Only (All Items Left at

Your Own Risk) -5 p.m.: Energy Hall Set-Up, En-

ergy Hall-6 p.m.: Team Penning & Ranch

Sorting, Wrangler Arena-7 p.m.: Style Show, Heritage

Center

Wednesday, August 3-7 a.m.: Barns Open for Livestock

Drop-Off-7 a.m.-7 p.m.: Poultry Due, Cen-

tral Pavilion-8 a.m.-7 p.m.: Trade Show Set-

Up, Wyoming Center-9 a.m.- 3 p.m.: 4-H Interview

Judging, Energy Hall-10 a.m.: FFA Projects Due, En-

ergy Hall-12 p.m.: Dairy Cattle & Dairy

Goats Due, East Pavilion-1 p.m.: FFA Projects Judged, En-

ergy Hall-4 p.m.: Campbell County Jack-

pot, Wrangler Arena-4- 8 p.m.: Open Class Energy

Hall/Mini Corner Entries Due, En-ergy Hall

-5 p.m.: Jr. & Open Wool Due, Central Pavilion

-6 p.m.: Cat Show, Central Pavil-ion

-6 p.m.: All Jr. Livestock Due [Beef, Swine, Sheep, Meat Goats,

Rabbits, Market Goats], Central & East Pavilions

-6:30 p.m.: Market Goat Weigh-In, Central Pavilion

-7 p.m.: Campbell County Talent Competition, Heritage Center

-7 p.m.: Dairy Cattle & Dairy Goat Show, East Pavilion

-7 p.m.: Market Lamb Weigh-In, Central Pavilion

Thursday, August 4-8 a.m.: Market Beef Weigh-In,

Fair Scale Barn-8- 11 a.m.: Floriculture & Gar-

den/Mini Corner Entries Due, En-ergy Hall

-9 a.m.: Market/Breeding Meat Goat Show, East Pavilion

-9- 11 a.m.: Open Class Poultry & Entries Due, Central Pavilion

-10 a.m.- 7 p.m.: Trade Show/Kids Corral Open, Wyoming Center

-10 a.m.: Wool Judged, Central Pavilion

-11 a.m.: PRCA Permit Steer Roping, Morningside Park Arena

-12 p.m.: Swine Weigh-In, Central Pavilion

-1 p.m.: Jayne Harris Memorial PRCA Steer Roping, Morningside Park Arena

-1 p.m.: Open Class Exhibits Judged, Energy Hall

-1 p.m.: Poultry Show, Central Pavilion

-2 p.m.: Rabbit Meat Pen Weigh-In, Central Pavilion

-4 p.m.: Open Horse Show Cattle Classes, Wrangler Arena

-7 p.m.: Williams and Ree Com-edy Concert, Heritage Center

Friday, August 5-9 a.m.: Sheep Show/Jr. Llama &

Alpaca Show to follow, East Pavil-ion

-9 a.m.: PRCA Slack, Morning-side Park Arena


-3 p.m.: Pocket Pet Show, Plaza Tent

-5 p.m.: Mini-Animal Show, Plaza Tent

-4- 6 p.m.: Open Class Rabbit En-tries Due- Paperwork Only, Central Pavilion

-7 p.m.: PRCA Rodeo, Morning-side Park Arena

Saturday, August 6-6- 10 a.m.: Pancake Breakfast

Fundraiser, Plaza Tent-8 a.m.: Open Horse Show, Wran-

gler Arena-8 a.m.: Jr. Rabbit Show/Open

Rabbit Show to follow, Central Pa-vilion


-10 a.m.: Swine Show, Central Pavilion

-10 a.m.: Fiddle Contest, Energy Hall

-11 a.m.: Pioneer Dinner, Heri-tage Center

-12 p.m.: Open Rabbits Due, Central Pavilion

-12 p.m.: Sheep Lead Entries Due- Paperwork Only, Fair Offi ce

-1 p.m.: Dachshund Races host-ed by Campbell County Humane Society, Wyoming Center

-5 p.m.: Free BBQ sponsored by Friends of Methane, Plaza Tent

-5:30 p.m.: Sheep Lead, East Pa-vilion

-7 p.m.: PRCA Rodeo, Morning-side Park

Sunday, August 7-8 a.m.: Church Services, Free

Stage Tent-9 a.m.: 4-H & Open Dog Show,

Wyoming Center-10 a.m.- 6 p.m.: Trade Show/

Kids Corral Open, Wyoming Center-10 a.m.: Jr. Beef Show, East Pa-

vilion-11 a.m.: Youth Rodeo, Wrangler

Arena-2 p.m.: Demolition Derby, Morn-

ingside Park Arena-6 p.m.: Release All ExhibitsRelease all non-sale animals af-

ter Beef Show, but not before 5 p.m.

Monday, August 8-8 a.m.: Round Robin Showman-

ship, East Pavilion-10 a.m.: Awards Program [4-H

& FFA Horse, Poultry, and Energy Hall Awards Only], Free Stage Tent

-4 p.m.: Sale Buyer’s Dinner, Central Pavilion

-6 p.m.: Youth Livestock Sale, Central Pavilion

Campbell County Fair Schedule of Events

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The Tigers got to State by beating Rock Springs 7-6 in the 1st round of the South District Tournament, then they lost to Wheatland 23-2, then they rebounded to beat Green River 15-13 and ultimately lost to Laramie in the 3rd place game 16-6.

For all of the match ups at this year’s State Tournament go to http://trib.com/sports/high-school/article_3961cc7c-b629-11e0-b750-001cc4c03286.html

You can hear every game the Gillette Roughriders play at State on News/Talk 1270-AM KIML and online at http://network1sports.com/school/info/9511/23597#menus the 1st round of the South District Tournament, then they lost to Wheatland 23-2, then they rebound-ed to beat Green River 15-13 and ultimately lost to Laramie in the 3rd place game 16-6.

For all of the match ups at this year’s State Tournament go to http://trib.com/sports/high-school/article_3961cc7c-b629-11e0-b750-001cc4c03286.html

You can hear every game the Gillette Roughriders play at State on News/Talk 1270-AM KIML and online at http://network1sports.com/school/info/9511/23597#menus

District Champs...Cont. from Page 1

Responding to yester-day’s announcement re-garding New York City Mayor Michael Bloom-berg’s commitment to do-nate $50 million from his charitable foundation to the Sierra Club, today policy experts from the National Center for Public Policy Research warn these funds will greatly increase the prospects of ending coal as an energy source, bringing higher energy prices to an already sluggish economy.

“By funding the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal cam-paign, Mayor Bloomberg is fueling President Obama’s war on fossil fuels which will have a devastating im-pact of our economy, espe-cially to states that derive most of their energy from coal. Bloomberg’s donation will greatly enhance the Sierra Club’s propaganda campaign that misleads and frightens the pub-lic about coal,” said Tom Borelli Ph.D., director of the National Center’s Free En-terprise Project.

The Sierra Club is cur-rently running a print ad-vertising campaign in Washington D.C’s Metro commuter rail system that graphically portrays chil-dren as victims of air emis-sions from coal-fi red power plants. The Beyond Coal campaign aims to reduce coal-fi red electricity gen-eration by 30 percent by 2020.

“With Bloomberg’s cash infusion the Sierra Club can expand their campaign nationwide and bring politi-cal pressure on utilities and target elected offi cials who are trying to reign in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) attack on the coal industry. I’m con-cerned that elected offi cials and CEOs will buckle under the media pressure and

sheepishly run away from coal use.”

“The timing of the dona-tion is not a coincidence. This weekend the House of Representatives is sched-uled to vote on an Appro-priations bill that cuts EPA’s budget and prevents the agency from pursuing its most harmful regulations against the coal industry. I’d bet that Bloomberg’s funded ads appear in the Congressional districts of the Representatives that are leading the effort to stop the EPA’s anti-coal agenda,” added Tom Borel-li.

“Billionaire Bloomberg is a classic limousine pro-gressive who can afford electricity at any price. Un-fortunately, hardworking Americans and especially those on fi xed incomes can’t - rising utility bills have a big impact on their budget by draining their disposable income,” said Deneen Borelli of Project 21.

Utilities such as American Electric Power, Duke Ener-gy and Southern Company recently announced they are closing coal-fi red power plants because of new EPA regulations.

“Obama’s war on coal is already having an impact on utilities. Since coal pro-vides about 45 percent of our nation’s electricity, the campaign to end its use is going to be especially harmful to states such as Indiana that derives more than 90 percent of its elec-tricity from coal. In addition to the expected layoffs an-nounced from the closing of the power plants, the cost of meeting new EPA requirements for the re-maining coal power plants will be passed on to con-sumers. Bloomberg’s sup-port of the Sierra Club is

only going to accelerate the political pressure to end the use of coal,” added De-neen Borelli.

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a conservative, free-market non-profi t think-tank estab-lished in 1982. It is support-ed by the voluntary gifts of over 100,000 individual recent supporters. Its 2010 revenue was over $12 mil-lion. It receives less than one percent of its revenue from corporate sources. Contributions are welcome and appreciated.

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In her new novel, “Yellow Star,” Wyoming author Judy A. King takes readers to 1864, where fourteen-year-old Promise Amrose has already experienced more in her short lifetime than most other young people. Abandoned by her fa-ther at a young age, and after the loss of her mother, Promise sets out from Philadelphia to Fort Laramie (Wyoming) in Indian Territory with her aunt Hattie to fi nd a father who never knew her.

While on their way to Fort Laramie, Promise is kidnapped by stage-coach robbers but is lat-er saved and adopted by the Lakota tribe and giv-en an Indian name: Yel-low Star, Giver of Light. Because of tensions arising between the Indian tribes and the white man, Yellow Star is sent to live with Ben Reed, a friend

of Father Fox. From there, she begins her long, arduous journey through the Black Hills—sacred land to the Indians—with Ben and her dog, Moon.

Readers learn if Promise will survive the rugged terrain and seemingly endless struggles in order to ful-fi ll her mission and fi nd her father in this exciting novel.

Published by Tate Pub-lishing and Enterprises, the book is available at bookstores nationwide and can be ordered through the publisher atwww.tatepublishing.com/bookstore or by visiting barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com.

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The Campbell County Historical Society would like to invite the public to attend a spe-cial ceremony honoring 33 Centennial Ranches in Campbell County. The ceremony will be held prior to the free barbeque and pro rodeo at the Campbell County Fair on Saturday, August 6th at 4:30 p.m. in the Free Stage Tent in the Cam-Plex plaza.

Working ranches are the foundation of our rural communities and in this centennial year, we would like to honor the hard work and longevity of these 33 ranch families. From the Powder River in the northwest to Teckla in the southeast and from Rocky-point in the northeast to the Pumpkin Buttes in the southwest, these ranches and their owners have been stewards of our land for a century or more. Here is a list of the honorees:

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Hold the Date!e2e Gillette, August 24, 2011

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Fred is an accomplished money manager who ranked in the top 2% nationally from 1985 to 2005 only behind the likes of Warren Buffett. Recently, Mr. Dowd started a “boutique investment” firm with Reed Rudkin, recent UW College of Business graduate, in Buffalo, WY. Their goal is work closely with clients to build wealth using Mr. Dowd’s proven approach.

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On Saturday June 23, the Wyo-ming Biker Association held their 9th Annual Steel Stallion Ball giving away a 2011 Dyna Wide Glide motorcycle as the grand prize. The group raises money to aid chronical-ly ill children in North East Wyoming. They hold two main events each year as fundraisers, The Steel Stal-lion Ball and Jaydens Auction. The event started with serving a rib eye dinner, cooked by members, with all the trimmings. After dinner was served tickets were drawn giving several nice door prizes that were donated by area businesses and individuals. WBA also gave away (3) $250.00 & (3) $500.00 cash prizes to six lucky tickets drawn. The last ticket drawn was the winner of the motorcycle. This year’s lucky winner was Rob Fogelberg. He was a very excited man to be the holder of that ticket. Wyoming Biker Association

would like to thank all those who attended the event and helped to support our organization. Without your support we could not assist the ill children of our local area who

need our help. Thank you to all who donated their time to make this event another successful year. Hope to see you all at our Jayden’s Auction November 19.

Steel Stallion BallBy Sandra Boehler

Jodi Crago-Wyllie, Director of the Campbell County School District Science Center, has been one of the many people working on a vision for the last three years to bring an outdoor learning campus to Gillette.

“This last year we’ve been just promoting the pro-grams, trying to get people interested, and now we are actually teaching programs for the first time,” Crago-Wyllie says.

Katie Brunson is leading the charge on those teach-ing efforts, which take place on Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00 at McManamen Park.

“We have different organizations within the city that are coming in and offering their expertise,” Brunson explains. “This Thursday, July 28, we have the Con-servation District coming in, along with Wyoming Game and Fish personnel, and they will be teaching families all about wildlife and animal identification. On August 4, we have Dennis Brown the D.A.R.E. Officer coming in and teaching creepy crawlies in the water, followed by some tree facts, identification projects. We have geo-caching 101, and we’re ending on August 25 with bird-ing, hiking, and mist netting by the Audubon Society.”

Brunson notes these events are free to the public.“We would like families of all ages and sorts to come

in and enjoy, just to see some of the programs that we will be offering actually at the campus when it is up and going,” Brunson adds.

As far as an outdoor campus facility becoming a real-ity, Crago-Wyllie says they have been working with the Rapid City architectural firm ARC International for the last year and a half.

“They actually built Outdoor Campus West in Rapid City that opened their doors three weeks ago,” Crago-Wyllie describes. “They are helping us with conceptual, and we are working now on a home – finding land – for Outdoor Campus, and soon after we will be staring our capital campaign.”

“We’re beginning our capital campaign in order to complete Phase I of development, which once we have a site we’re looking at site development, and we plan on phasing the development of the outdoor campus into three pods,” Brunson says. “And so Phase I will consist of Pod I along with the parking lot and a little bit of landscape work.”

Brunson and Crago-Wyllie also have been working on informing the public about their vision for the Northeast Wyoming Outdoor Campus. They are hosting public in-formation meetings on the second Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Lakeway Learning Center in Gillette. You can also get more information on their website at www.newoc.org or check them out on Facebook.

Crago-Wyllie says that they have been working to revitalize the Trash for Trees program in Campbell County.

“Well Trash for Trees is a summer long program,” says Crago-Wyllie. “Please collect trash with your family, with your business, with your organization, and every Saturday morning from 8:30 to noon we have trash drop off at the Gillette College off of Sinclair.”

Crago-Wyllie says they will have their culminating event on September 17, when people will be awarded their trees, shrubs, bulbs, and seeds. There will also be a hotdog feed that day.

“We just want to get out and remind people to get out and clean up our community,” Crago-Wyllie concluded.

For any questions, call Katie Brunson at 605-661-6256. Call ahead to register.

Thank you to Paul Wallum of the Basin Radio News Network for information provided for the article.

Outdoor learning facility gets closer to being a reality

The Wyoming Air Nation-al Guard’s free Military Air and Ground Show is back this year, on July 27, with an amazing display of mili-tary air and ground power.

The free air show is fo-cused on the family and will feature a Kid’s Corner which will include the Fry Fun Farms Petting Zoo, United States Air Force Academy Falconry Team, climbing wall and bouncy houses complete with a racecar jump, rocket ship jump, 18-foot slide, hot air balloon combo, and all-star hoops basketball.

Gates open at 8 a.m. at the Wyoming Air Nation-al Guard base, 217 Dell Range Blvd for the public to view the many static dis-plays. Only shuttle bus traf-fic will be allowed on to the base due to security and parking restrictions. There is no parking available on the base. The shuttle bus route has been revamped this year to ensure speedy and regular access to the show. Pedestrian foot

traffic will still be allowed through the main gate. All visitors must bring an ID, be aware that bags will be searched and cannot have glass containers or pocket knives on the installation.

Shuttle buses will leave continuously from the Fron-tier Mall’s north side, be-tween Dillard’s and Sears. The Frontier Mall is located at 1400 Dell Range Blvd.

At 9:45 spectators will be able to view the Thunder-birds’ ground demonstra-tion before they take off for their show over Laramie County Community Col-lege. The show is not vis-ible from the Guard Base. Aerial events over the base will begin with the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Wings of Blue parachute jump at noon.

More than 10,000 peo-ple annually attend the Wyoming National Guard’s event.

Event organizers an-ticipate a similar crowd for the upcoming show, which ends at 4 p.m.

This year’s attendees will also be treated to a variety of aerial acrobatics and mil-itary flybys.

“Aerial events include a fi-ery demonstration courtesy of an A-10 Warthog around 3 p.m.,” said Maj. Ryan Hendrickson, air show di-rector. “The public should expect several large ex-plosions during the show. Rest assured that they are a professionally orchestrat-ed part of the show.”

Static aircraft currently scheduled for display throughout the day include a T-6 Texan; T-44 Pegasus; T-1 Jayhawk; A-10 Wart-hog; F-16 Fighting Falcon; P-51 Mustang; UH-1; UH-60; C-5 Galaxy; C-130 H3 Hercules Modular Airborne Firefighting Platform; MiG 17 Fresco; Stearman; TBM Avenger; DC-3, Flagship Detroit; CAF Strip Wing; Extra 300, and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

The Wyoming Air Nation-al Guard Air Show sched-ule of events is as follows:

• 8 a.m.: Air Show gates

Kid’s Corner added to Wyoming Air National Guard air show

open, static displays and vendors all day

• 8:30 a.m.: Shuttle buses begin running

• 12 p.m. - 4 p.m.: vari-ous flyovers and aerial demonstrations

• 4 p.m.: Air Show gates close

The incoming chair of the National Governors As-sociation, Governor Dave Heineman, of Nebraska has asked Governor Matt Mead to serve as co-chair of the NGA’s Special Com-mittee on Homeland Secu-rity and Public Safety. The committee is co-chaired by a Republican and Demo-cratic governor.

“It is an honor to serve in this capacity and I ap-preciate very much that Governor Heineman would consider me for this posi-tion,” Governor Mead said.

“Governors have a vital role in homeland security and I look forward to repre-senting these leaders and bringing a state perspective to the national debate.”

The Special Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety addresses homeland security, the National Guard and home-land defense, criminal jus-tice and public safety, and veterans’ affairs. Governor Mead’s term as chair will run from July 2011 to July 2012. He was reappointed to the NGA’s Natural Re-

sources Committee, which has jurisdiction over agri-culture, energy, the envi-ronment, and natural re-sources issues.

Governor Mead also continues to serve on the Council of Governors. This group of ten governors is chosen by the President to advise the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the White House Homeland Security Council on mat-ters related to the National Guard and civil support missions.

Governor Mead appointed to Leadership Position with NGA

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Wyoming’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell from 6 percent in May to 5.9 percent in June.

Wyoming’s unemploy-ment rate has been steadily decreasing since Decem-ber 2009, when it was 7.7 percent. It is significantly lower than a year ago at 7 percent and the current U.S. rate of 9.2 percent, according to the Research & Planning section of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services.

Seasonally adjusted em-ployment fell slightly from May to June – down an es-timated 413 individuals, or 0.1 percent.

Lincoln County posted the highest unemployment rate in June – 7.3 percent. It was followed by Fremont and Big Horn counties – both 6.7 percent – and Laramie County – 6.6 per-

cent.Sublette County reported

the lowest unemployment rate – 3.3 percent – a posi-tion it has held for 13 con-secutive months. Three other counties had unem-ployment rates lower than 5.0 percent – Campbell, 4.4 percent; Niobrara, 4.8 percent; and Converse, 4.9 percent.

From May to June, most unemployment rates fol-lowed their normal season-al pattern and decreased. Teton County’s unemploy-ment rate dropped from 9.2 percent in May to 5.2 per-cent in June as the summer tourist season got into full swing.

Lincoln County’s rate fell from 8.6 percent to 7.3 per-cent, Park County’s rate fell from 6.1 percent to 5.1 per-cent, and Carbon County’s rate fell from 6.6 percent to

5.8 percent.From June 2010 to June

2011 unemployment rates decreased in every county. The largest decreases oc-curred in energy-depen-dent counties. Uinta Coun-ty’s jobless rate fell from 7 percent to 5.3 percent, Campbell County’s rate fell from 5.9 percent to 4.4 percent, and Sweetwater County’s rate fell from 6.5 percent to 5.1 percent.

Total nonfarm employ-ment increased to 298,700 in June, a gain of 6,900 jobs – 2.4 percent – from its year-ago level. Despite the increase, employment was still down 9,400 jobs – or 3.1 percent – from June 2008.

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By Bill McCarthy of the Cowboy State Free Press

The Campbell County Sheriff’s Office is investi-gating a report of a horse being shot to death just southeast of Gillette near Coal Train Road.

“The mare was in a coral with another horse on the south side of their barn,” explained Campbell

County Sheriff Bill Pownall. “Apparently the shot came from a southeastwardly di-rection.”

Sheriff Pownall says the horse was killed sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Monday.

According to the sheriff, the paint horse was shot

in the head. At this time, law enforcement does not know whether the shooting was intentional or simply just an accident.

This incident is still under investigation, and there are no suspects. The owners of the horse said the animal was valued at $7,500.

Sheriff’s Office investigating report of horse shot to death

Boxelder Road (Highway 59 to Fox Park Avenue)

Boxelder Road will be restricted to one lane in each direction on Box-elder Road from Highway 59 to Fox Park Avenue from Monday, July 25th through Thursday, July 28th while contractors apply a reclamite flush seal to the road for preventive main-tenance. This treatment re-seals the surface so moisture does not soak into the asphalt.

The contractor will begin placing pavement marking tabs on Sunday, July 24th. Residents of Fox Park will need to exit at Mint Avenue during this time. Drivers are asked to reduce speed and observe posted traffic con-trol information - please observe the warning signs of fresh oil and loose gravel, as braking distances may be longer. The Streets Division thanks the community for your understand-ing during these preventative treat-ment applications.

2nd Street2nd Street will be restricted to two

lanes (right lanes heading east and west on 2nd Street) at the alley be-tween Ross Avenue and Warren Av-enue from Thursday, July 21st and Friday, August 5th. This construction is for work related to the Stonepile Creek Sanitary Sewer project.

East 2nd Street (in Interstate Indus-trial Park)

East 2nd Street will be closed Wednesday, July 27th through Mon-day, August 8th while crews install a box culvert. This closure is for work related to the City’s Industrial Park Drainage project. Traffic will be de-toured to Conestoga Drive.

Boxelder Road (Highway 59 to Fox Park Avenue)

Boxelder Road will be restricted to one lane in each direction on Box-elder Road from Highway 59 to Fox Park Avenue from Tuesday, July 26th through Friday, July 28th while con-tractors fog seal the road for preven-tive maintenance. Drivers are asked to reduce speed and observe posted traffic control information.

Alley ClosureThe alley between Ross Avenue

and Warren Avenue from 1st Street to 2nd Street will be closed from Tues-day, July 12th through Tuesday, July 26th while crews install sewer line associated with the Stonepile Creek Sewer Interceptor Phase IIB project. This project is funded by the Optional 1% Sales Tax.

Par DrivePar Drive will continue being under

construction from Tuesday, July 13th through Friday, August 5th for con-struction activities, including: asphalt pavement repair, asphalt overlay and subgrade prep. This project is part of the 2011 Pavement Management Schedule A, and is funded by the Op-tional 1% Sales Tax.

1st Street Closure (Stonepile Creek Sanitary Sewer Project

Phase IIB)The intersection of 1st Street and

Burma Avenue will be closed Friday, July 15th through Friday, July 29th for the installation of sanitary sewer as part of the Stonepile Creek Sewer project. This project is funded by the Optional 1% Sales Tax.

*Once the work at this intersection is complete for the Stonepile Creek

Sewer Project, the intersection will remain closed for contractors to com-plete work on the city’s Quiet Zone project - which will last until approxi-mately mid to late August.

Enzi Drive WideningBeginning July 5th, traffic on Enzi

Drive will be dedicated to the outside lanes of Enzi until July 30, 2011. Traf-fic control designs will accommodate 12’ lanes and the speed limit will re-main 20 mph. Pay attention to signs, watch for trucks, construction equip-ment as well as workers and flaggers. Trucks and trailers are encouraged to use an alternate route.

This project, funded by the Op-tional 1% Sales Tax, will be ongoing throughout the Summer of 2011. This will widen Enzi Drive to five lanes from the Enzi Drive/West 4J Road Intersection to just south of the Enzi Drive/Shoshone Avenue intersection. The project will also relocate the traf-fic signals at the Enzi Drive and Slate Street to the intersection of Enzi Drive and Sinclair Street - which will include a new entrance and exit to CCHS South Campus on Sinclair Street.

Highway 50 (Skyline Drive) Widening

This is a WYDOT Project (Project Number: 0007162) and is sched-uled for completion on September 30, 2011. The project includes the reconstruction of 2nd Street from Echeta Road to Decker Court and reconstruction and widening of Sky-line Drive from 2nd street to Lakeway Road. The project also includes the installation of part of the second Mad-ison Pipeline from Lakeway Road to Westover Road.

Road Construction Update

Wyoming has received a federal disaster declaration from President Obama. This is due to flooding, landslides and severe storms that occurred during May, June and July.

“I can’t thank the local counties and emergency managers enough for their dedication to protect-ing Wyoming’s communi-ties,” Governor Matt Mead said. “This was a record breaking spring in terms of snowpack and flows in our rivers. We averted a single major disaster, but cumula-tively Mother Nature did in-flict damage on public infra-structure. The efforts of our citizens, entire communi-ties, the Wyoming National Guard and Office of Home-

land Security deserve our applause. Without this ef-fort the costs of this spring would have been much higher.”

This news means Wyo-ming will recoup some of the money spent on mitiga-tion. The mitigation effort included proactive work by the Wyoming National Guard to protect communi-ties. It also means several counties can receive fed-eral assistance for repair-ing and replacing facilities damaged during the flood-ing, landslides or storms and for any other emer-gency work. The counties included are: Albany, Big Horn, Carbon, Crook, Fre-mont, Goshen, Johnson, Lincoln, Platte, Sheridan,

Sublette, Teton, Uinta, Washakie, and Weston, and the Wind River Indian Reservation.

“This is good news. We appreciate the president’s approval of financial assis-tance to help our commu-nities that were impacted by heavy rain, snowpack, flooding and landslides,” Guy Cameron, director of the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security. “I ap-plaud Governor Mead for his proactive approach to this flood season and early deployment of the National Guard to assist local com-munities as well as seeking federal financial assistance to aid those communities damaged by the flood sea-son.”

President approves Declaration for Wyoming

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Community

Joke of the weekDear Ma and Pa:I am well. Hope you are too. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer that

the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are fi lled.

I was restless at fi rst because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m., but I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fi re to lay... practically nothing. Men got to shave but it’s not so bad... there’s warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie, and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you ‘til noon when you get fed again. It’s no wonder these city boys can’t walk much.

We go on “route marches,” which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it’s not my place to tell him different. A “route march” is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

The country is nice but awful fl at. The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don’t bother you none.

This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don’t know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chip-munk head and don’t move, and it ain’t shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don’t even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain’t like fi ghting with that ole bull at home. I’m about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I’m only 5’6” and 130 pounds and he’s 6’8” and near 300 pounds dry.

Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join up before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding on in.

Your loving daughter,Alice

As he was drilling a batch of recruits, the sergeant saw that one of them was marching out of step. Walking up next to the man as they marched, he said sarcastically: “Do you know they are all out of step except you?” “What?” asked the recruit innocently. “I said -- they are all out of step except you!” thundered the sergeant. The recruit replied, “Well, sarge, you’re in charge -- you tell them!”

An older couple had a son, who was still living at home. The parents were a little worried, as the son was still unable to decide about his fu-ture career. They decided to do a small test. They took a 10 dollar bill, a Bible, and a bottle of whiskey, and put them on the front hall table, and hid, pretending they were not home.

The father’s plan was: “If our son takes the money, he will be a busi-nessman, if he takes the Bible, he will be a priest, but if he takes the bottle of whiskey, I’m afraid our son will be a drunkard.”

So, the parents waited nervously, hiding in the nearby closet. Peeping through the keyhole they saw their son arrive. The son saw the note they had left. Then, he took the 10-dollar bill, looked at it against the light, and slid it in his pocket. After that, he took the Bible, fl icked through it, and took it.

Then, he grabbed the bottle, opened it and took a whiff, to get assured of the quality. Then he left for his room, carrying all three items. The father slapped his forehead, and said: HONEY! Our son is going to be a politician.”

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Friday, July 29-Senior Center Garage Sale, 8 a.m.- 3p.m.,

Call 686-0804 for more info.-QuickBooks Pro 2010- For Windows: Ad-

vanced, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., K2 Technologies, 686-3025 or www.k2technologies.net

-Norco Road Show & Open House, 10 a.m.- 7 p.m., Norco Inc. 811 Edwards St., 682-8250

-Teen Open-Play Video Gaming, 1-4 p.m., CCPL

-Teens You Are Here: Japan, 2-4 p.m., CCPL

-Kid’s Triathlon, 5:30 p.m., Rec. Center- Lap Pool, $10, 682-8527

-Gillette Community Theatre Summer Me-lo-Drama “Bulldog Saves the Day…or I Was the Teacher’s Pitt”, 7 p.m., Suite Escapes, 211 S. Brooks Ave., 257-5161

-Movies in the Park, 7:30 p.m., Grown Ups, Camplex Park Shelter #3, $5- Children 4 & Under FREE

-Earl Ware & Haywire @ Jakes Tavern

Saturday, July 30-Senior Center Garage Sale, 8 a.m.- 3p.m.,

Call 686-0804 for more info.-Farmer’s Market, 8 a.m.- 12 p.m., Gillette

College-Trash to Trees, 8 a.m.- 12 p.m., Gillette

College Tech. Center-Gillette College Road Rally, 9a.m., Gillette

College Tech. Center, Call 686-0254 ext. 1304 or 689-5026

-Teen Chess Club, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m., CCPL-Teen Dungeons & Dragons, 10 a.m.- 1

p.m., CCPL-Gillette Riders Organization Community

Picnic in the Park, 11 a.m.- 3 p.m., Dalbey Park- Fishing Lake, Pat Mueller Shelter, FREE

-Teen Open-Play Video Gaming, 1-4 p.m., CCPL

-4th-6th Grade Wii Play Saturdays, 1-4 p.m., CCPL

-AVA- Photo Essay, 2 p.m., 682-9133-Car Racing; CLMA/WDRA, 7 p.m., Gillette

Thunder Speedway-Bush Hawg @ Jakes Tavern

Sunday, July 31-ABATE Meeting @ Jakes Tavern-Joe Nichols Concert, 7 p.m., Camplex Wy-

oming Center. Special Guest Danny Gokey. Tickets $40, 682-8802. Kicks Off the Camp-bell County Fair

-Deadline for Outdoor Hall of Fame Nomi-nations; http://www.wyomingwildlifefounda-tion.org for more info.

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Monday, August 1-Centennial Event: Centennial Art Gallery,

M-F 8 a.m.- 5 p.m., Aug 1st- Sept 1st, Cam-plex Heritage Center

-Campbell County Fair, Aug 1st-7th(See What’s Going On at the Campbell County Fair for schedule)

-AVA-Kidz Summer Art Camp for Girls, Ages 8- 12, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., $60 fee, 682-9133 to pre-register

-AVA-Life Drawing Series, Every Monday

from Aug. 1st-Sept. 23rd, $40 fee, 7-9 p.m., 682-9133 to pre-register

Tuesday, August 2-Campbell County Fair-HealthCHECK Testing, 7-11 a.m., CCMH

Lab, 688-1222 for more info.-AVA-Kidz Summer Art Camp for Girls,

Ages 8-12, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 682-9133-Story Time, 3-5 yr. olds, 10:30 a.m., CCPL-Pre-Registration Deadline for Feet Don’t

Fail Me Now! Road Race Big O Tires/Lyle Cottrell Memorial 1.8 Mile, Gillette Rec. Center 682-8527 or Wright Rec. Center 464-0198, Race Starts @ 6:15 p.m. @ the Gillette Rec. Center

-AVA-Adult Beginner Painting, 6:30 p.m., 682-9133 for more info.

Wednesday, August 3-Campbell County Fair-Children’s Immunization Clinic, 8-11:30

a.m., Public Health-AVA-Kidz Summer Art Camp for Girls,

Ages 8-12, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., 682-9133-Senior Center- Healthy Cooking Demo,

9:30 a.m., 686-0804-Story Time, 3-5 yr. olds, 10:30 a.m., CCPL-Teen Open-Play Video Gaming, 1-4 p.m.,

CCPL-Children’s Immunization Clinic, 4-7 p.m.,

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Thursday, August 4-Campbell County Fair-HealthCHECK Testing, 7-11 a.m., CCMH

Lab, Call 688-1222 for more info.-AVA-Kidz Summer Art Camp for Girls,

Ages 8-12, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., 682-9133-Senior Center- The Lodge Bus, 9 a.m.,

686-0804-Toddler Time, 18 months-3 yrs., 9:30 a.m.,

CCPL-Story Time, 3-5 yr. olds, 10:30 a.m., CCPL-AVA-Painting with Nancy! Six Week

Course on Thursday Evenings, 6:30-8 p.m., $125 fee(all supplies included) 682-9133 to pre-register

-Families & Jammies, Birth-6th Grade, 6:30 p.m., CCPL

-Prenatal Series, 7-9 p.m., Series of 4 Classes begins First Thursday of Every Month, 688-2200 for more info. & to Register

Friday, August 5-Campbell County Fair-BACA- Wright-Teen Open-Play Video Gaming, 1-4 p.m.,

CCPL-Cody Canada & The Departed with Walker

Williams Band @ Jakes Tavern-Senior Center Summer Soiree, Carry In

Dinner 5 p.m., Dancing 6-9 p.m., Musician Eddie Prazma, $5 per person or $7 per cou-ple, 686-0804

-AVA-Uncorked! 7-9 p.m., $35 Class Fee, 682-9133 for more info.- MUST BE 21 TO ATTEND

-Movies in the Park, 7:30 p.m., Cars, Cam-plex Park Shelter #3, $5- Children 4 & under FREE

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As more customers choose to conduct their postal business online, on their smart phones and at their favorite shopping destinations, the need for the U.S. Postal Service to maintain its nearly 32,000 retail offi ces — the largest retail network in the country — diminishes. To that end, the U.S. Postal Service an-nounced today that it will be taking the next step in right-sizing its expansive retail network by conducting studies of approximately 3,700 retail offi ces to deter-mine customer needs. As part of this effort, the Postal Service also introduced a retail-replacement option for affected communities around the nation.

“Today, more than 35 per-cent of the Postal Service’s retail revenue comes from expanded access locations such as grocery stores, drug stores, offi ce supply stores, retail chains, self-service kiosks, ATMs and usps.com, open 24/7,” said Postmaster General Pat-rick Donahoe. “Our cus-tomer’s habits have made it clear that they no longer require a physical post of-fi ce to conduct most of their

postal business.”For communities cur-

rently without a postal retail offi ce and for communities affected by these retail opti-mization efforts, the Postal Service introduced the Vil-lage Post Offi ce as a po-tential replacement option. Village Post Offi ces would be operated by local busi-nesses, such as pharma-cies, grocery stores and other appropriate retailers, and would offer popular postal products and ser-vices such as stamps and fl at-rate packaging.

“By working with third-party retailers, we’re creat-ing easier, more convenient access to our products and services when and where our customers want them,” Donahoe said. “The Village Post Offi ce will offer anoth-er way for us to meet our customers’ needs.”

With 32,000 postal re-tail offi ces and more than 70,000 third-party retail-ers — Approved Postal Providers — selling post-age stamps and providing expanded access to other postal products and servic-es, customers today have about 100,000 locations across the nation where

they can do business with the Postal Service.

“The Postal Service of the future will be smaller, leaner and more competi-tive and it will continue to drive commerce, serve communities and deliver value,” Donahoe added.

This affects individuals close to our community. One of the locations set for closure is Recluse, WY.

The list of offi ces being studied and additional in-formation, including video, audio sound bites, b-roll and JPEGs, can be found at http://about.usps.com/news/electronic-press-kits/expandedaccess/welcome.htm.

The Postal Service re-ceives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of post-age, products and services to fund its operations.

Post Offi ce in Recluse may close

A state-wide effort to help bring closure to families who lost a veteran began in June 2010 with monthly memorial services conduct-ed by the Wyoming Army National Guard’s Honor Guard Team, in partnership with the Wyoming Veterans Commission.

The next ceremony will be held in Casper, at the Oregon Trail State Veter-ans Cemetery, July 29, at noon, with participation from the Natrona County United Veterans Council,

other individual veterans, and the Wyoming Army Na-tional Guard Honor Guard. The public is encouraged to attend.

The goal is to provide military honors to a larger number of deserving Wyo-ming veterans.

The service opens with the Pledge of Allegiance, a prayer, the reading of the names of the Wyoming vet-erans who died during the month, a rifl e volley, the playing of “Taps” and the folding of the U.S. fl ag.

The Wyoming Army Na-tional Guard provides free military honors for veter-ans’ individual services; however, some veterans, for one reason or another, never receive the honors due.

Veterans’ organizations interested participating in future services should contact the Wyoming Army National Guard’s military funeral honors offi ce at 307-772-5136.

Wyoming ARNG hosts monthly memorial

for veterans in July

This August 27th will mark the second annual walk to prevent suicide in Gillette. With the support of the “Wyoming Out of the Darkness” walk, which takes place in Sheridan, this walk will be held in the parking lot adjacent to Twin Spruce Junior High. Regis-tration with begin at noon

followed by a short presen-tation and refreshments to start the walk.

This walk, put on by Charles “Eddie” Edwards, will go to benefi t the Ameri-can Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The length will be 1.7 miles with a drink break in the parking lot of Pokey’s BBQ.

If you would like to par-ticipate in this charity event, then call Charles at (307) 685-2741 before August 6th. T-shirt orders must be in by that time. Mark your calendar and arrive to show your support for a just cause.

Suicide Prevention Walk

Thank you to the volunteers that helped with the Shoe Shuffl e 5K Run April 30th, 2011, to raise money for 6th graders need-ing running-shoes for their track meet.

Volunteers included Roger Peabody, Rick Mansur, Linda Rexroat, Joy Mentzel, Kelly Kalkhoff, and Sonny Roberts.

Also I would like to thank the donors of cash for shoes - Kiwanis, Wyodak Re-sources, M&K Oil, SLS West, State Farm (Todd Butzine), Quality Auto, Me and You Cleaning Crew, James Edwards, Peggy & Rodney Seppala, Joy & Gregg Ment-zel, Linda Rexroat, Maria & Rick Mansur, Roger Peabody, Betsy Altenburg, Barb Roosa, Beth Bernston, Jessica Wernes, and Gregg Blikre.

Thanks all for making this a very success-ful fund raiser. We have ordered 49 pairs of shoes for this year. We have a start for next year’s shoes!

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A representative from the Wyoming Veterans Commission will con-duct community outreach meetings in Wyoming cit-ies throughout the month of August. Gerald Swan, the state veterans service offi cer, will meet with vet-erans and their families to discuss state and fed-eral benefi ts, claims and healthcare.

Veterans or family members who have ques-tions about eligibility or need assistance in fi ling claims, obtaining benefi ts,

training and education or medical treatment, are encouraged to attend.

The meetings are scheduled for the follow-ing locations and dates:

* Powell - Aug. 5, at Northwest College in room 104 of the Science and Mathematics Build-ing, 231 West 6th St., from 9 a.m. - noon

* Worland - Aug. 9, at the Washakie County Court House, 1001 Big Horn

Ave., from 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

* Thermopolis - Aug. 23, at the Hot Springs County Museum, 700 Broadway

St., from 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

* Basin - Aug. 30, at the Big Horn County Court House, 420 W. C St.,

from 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.Swan also will be avail-

able to meet with vet-erans and their families by appointment or home visit. To schedule a meet-ing, he can be reached at 307-250-3890.

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Dear Editor:President Obama asking

for a debt limit increase is akin to a drunk requesting more whiskey. The solution to drunkenness is not more whiskey nor is the solution to unsustainable spend-ing higher taxes and more debt. The solutions for the respective problems are to stop drinking and end-ing the wasteful spend-ing. There is no crisis. The sun will rise on August 3. We have the tax dollars to service the debt, ensure seniors get their social se-curity checks and fund the necessary and legitimate functions of government. To claim otherwise is noth-ing less than 1933 NAZI style fear mongering that resulted in the ascendency of the Fuhrer. The historical tide of common sense Tea Party conservatives swept into offi ce in 2010 that gave birth to the Republi-can Majority in the House only materialized because the average American was and is tired of the busi-ness as usual shenani-gans that are robbing us of our liberties and placing our children and grand-children in the bondage of insurmountable debt. The new House Majority has already betrayed its voters once this spring by pass-ing a budget with anemic spending cuts. Will they betray us again? House Speaker John Boehner is desperate to make a deal, and Senate Minor-ity Leader Mitch McCon-nell wants to give Obama the power of debt dictator. Therein lays the answer. Congress will betray us again by passing the whis-key bottle to Obama, which is in essence passing the debt buck to future genera-tions. Some will stand for the principles upon which they were given the House Majority, but most will fail to rise to the occasion un-less the wrath of their con-stituents is unbearable and scorches them into doing the right thing. This is not the time for a last minute

Neville Chamberlain style debt appeasement to the spending dictator. Now is the time for an open honest debate amongst the people regarding the necessary and legitimate functions of government framed in the spirit of 1776. This is our country, our government, and our debt vote. Let ev-eryone know that we must accept nothing less than the Cap, Cut and Balance. Let our representatives know anyone of them who votes for anything less can expect a position at the back of the long Obama unemployment lines.

Otto D. SchlosserFrom Editor Keary Speer:Dear Otto,I am inclined to agree

with you on the subject. I do not know how there are so many in support of this when it seems clear that it will not work. When budgeting one’s own ex-penses, you would never ever consider spending more money as a solution to your own debt problems. Conveniently, I believe, as do many others, that the Presidential speech made on Monday was intention-ally made too late. With one week left for this problem to be “solved,” there is not much we, as the people, can do. We will just have to see what happens on the 3rd.

Dear Editor:Well, the national fi nals

are done and the room rates have come down. Is this going to happen to the pyrotechnecnics when they come to town? What about when the rodeo wants to come back. Let’s just push all of these people away so that nothing will come to Gillette.

Kirk DickensonFrom Editor Keary Speer:Dear Kirk,I understand your frus-

tration with the fl uctuating room rates around the “big event” seasons. I under-stand that they were well above $100 per night! If

you are a resident of Gil-lette just hoping to have some family come visit around those times then you can just forget about it! It is a sacrifi ce that we are being forced to make in order for our town to host these sometimes elabo-rate events. However, on the upside, it does put our town on the map. Without these events, we may not even be able to have the Cam-plex, and think of all the other events that we, as community members, enjoy out there year round. We have the crawfi sh boil, the pumpkin festival, the beer and wine tasting and let’s not forget that Willy Nelson is coming to town! These bigger events fund our more local ones and for that I, personally, am willing to sacrifi ce.

Dear Editor:I like how you are getting

Wright stories in. I have always enjoyed your news-paper but have always been upset about how ev-erything is about Gillette. We are a huge community and are left on the back-burner of everything. Great articles you wrote about the car show, Wright days, and more. Thank you very much.

Johna BerkleyFrom Editor Keary Speer:Dear Johna,Thank you for your kind

words! We are indeed striving to be a Campbell County community paper and, yes, Wright is a big part of that. The challenge has been getting writers to the area and, of course, the number of events in Wright pale in comparison to the number of events in Gillette. However, we have brought on a new writer, or “wrighter,” (haha) whose main focus is anything and everything Wright. Her name is, Elizabeth Albin. Please feel free to contact us with any events going on in the area and we would be happy to put someone on it.

Dear Editor:We are in the dog days

of summer and no-one is paying attention to politics. Of course, when the boats, RV’s, and four wheelers need to be run, selfi shness kicks in. But by the time the election comes around, they complain. There is so much to do here, including watching your politicians, fi nding a candidate you like, and planning to get that candidate in.

Mark DaleiFrom Editor Keary Speer:Dear Mark, Perhaps our paper’s

owner, Nick Delaat, is bet-ter suited to answer this letter. I am one of those people that every political person hates! Even when the important things are go-ing on, I am clueless and uninvolved. Frankly, I get upset just because Presi-dential speeches mess with my DVR’d TV shows! However, maybe if there were not a “slow time” in politics I would have a harder time avoiding the important things and it would force more people to get involved. Being that our owner in fact is some-what of a politician, I think we do a fair job of keeping current with our local poli-tics. Our local columnist, Glenn Woods, keeps us in the know as well. If you have such a passion for politics, please, feel free to submit an article to us and, perhaps, you’ll get yours published! Maybe then our readers will be better off for it too.

July 19, 2011 - At 12:02 AM to 4600

Overdale Drive (Bell Nob Golf Course) for a one vehi-cle traffi c accident that hit the gate to the golf course.

- At 8:02 AM to the area of 2600 East 2nd Street for a roof collapse with one injury.

- At 2:41 PM to the 800 block of Ratcliff Drive for a medical assist.

- At 6:44 PM to 1198 Olm-stead Road for a lightning-caused grass fi re that was contained to approximately quarter of an acre.

- At 7:52 PM to North High-way 59 (1 mile south of Mon-tana State Line) for a light-ning-caused grass fi re that was contained to less than one acre in size.

- At 8:12 PM to the inter-section of South Gillette Avenue and Tonk for a two-vehicle traffi c accident – con-tained spilled anti-freeze.

- At 8:55 PM to 650 North Highway 14-16 (Foothills Theaters) for a fi re alarm. Smoke from the popcorn machine caused a smoke detector to go into alarm. The fi re panel reset without incident.

July 21, 2011- At 11:02 AM to 3 El Cami-

no Court for a fi re alarm that turned out to be a malfunc-tion of a smoke detector.

- At 5:31 PM to the 1100 block of 4th Avenue for a medical assist.

- At 7:33 PM to behind 210 West Juniper Lane for a grass fi re next to a power pole. The fi re was contained to less than a quarter of an acre. The fi re damaged a fi fty foot section of vinyl fence. The fi re was started by a power-line electrical short that caused a partial electri-cal outage in the neighbor-hood. City Electrical Division was dispatched to correct the problem.

- At 7:54 PM to 1801 Four J Road (Campbell County Children’s Center) for a burnt electrical odor. The building only had partial electrical power and is related to pre-vious mentioned fi re call on West Juniper Lane.

July 22, 2011- At 7:18 AM to Longhorn

Ave. for an EMS assist.- At 1:21 PM to 319 S. Gil-

lette Ave. for a report of a gas smell, nothing found.

- At 4:24 PM to Grandview Ct. for an EMS assist.

- At 6:54 PM to the East Pavilion at CAM-PLEX for an EMS assist.

July 23, 2011- At 1:47 PM to West Inter-

state 90 (by Wildhorse Exit) for a medical assist.

- At 7:39 PM to the 1400 block of Michelle Street for a medical assist.

July 24, 2011- At 4:11 AM to 3202 Loni-

gan Circle for a vehicle fi re that also damaged a camper and house. The fi re gutted the pickup cab and heavily damaged the engine com-partment. The Pickup is a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 4x4 extended cab pickup. A 2010 Palomino 5th Wheel Camper was parked thirty inches away from the pickup and suffered fi re damage to the side of the camper, breaking a window in the camper and started some bench cushions inside the camper on fi re. The pickup was parked thirty two inches away from a garage attached to the house (part of the house is built over the ga-rage). The overhead garage door and vinyl siding on the garage/house was damaged by fi re. Firefi ghters were able to make a quick extinguish-ment containing the fi re to the outside of the house and limiting fi re damage to the camp trailer. The property is insured and owned by Josh Hall. His son was sleeping in the room above the ga-rage and was awakened by an explosion noise and was able to wake everyone else up. There were no injuries to report. The fi re originated in the pickup cab and the cause of the fi re is under investiga-tion. Preliminary fi re damage is $55,000 to the pickup, $10,000 to the Camp Trailer and $20,000 to the house/garage.

- At 5:28 AM to South High-way 59 (by mile marker 93) for a medical assist.

- At 10:37 AM to E. Sunset for a hazmat investigation, nothing found.

- At 11:08 AM to Camel Plaza for a vehicle that was leaking transmission fl uid.

- At 7:07 PM to Pioneer Manor for an EMS assist.

- At 8:06 PM to 2501 Dog-wood Ave. for a fi re alarm, a juvenile pulled the alarm, no fi re.

- At 8:19 PM to Ivy Creek Rd. for a grass fi re less than 5 acres in size.

July 25, 2011- At 12:15 PM to the area of

Ivy Creek Rd. for a reported grass fi re. Landowners had the fi re extinguished prior to the arrival of fi refi ghters. The fi re was estimated at less than 1 acre.

- At 3:56 PM to the area of Timber Creek Rd. and High-way 51 for a report of railroad ties on fi re. Fire units arrived and scene and found 2 areas of smoldering railroad ties.

- At 10:16 PM to the 900 block of Camel Dr. for an EMS assist.

Campbell Co. Fire Dept.

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The year is 1962, Jed Clampett, is a simple mountain man who has in his humble home two kids, his daughter and his nephew in addition to his grandmother. Jed works tirelessly to support them.

Off in the woods, search-ing for food, he fi res a single shot from an old fl int lock rifl e, and misses. The bullet penetrates the ground and from the hole it makes black oil comes bubbling up. Jed is RICH! His friends congratulate him. He moves his family to Beverly Hills California to live the American Dream in a big mansion.

But what if this had hap-pened just yesterday and not back in 1962?

A neighbor, not used to the sound of a gunshot would have panicked and called the authorities. The hills would have been over-run by armed game war-dens and S.W.A.T style as-sault teams. There would have been a 3 day standoff at the cabin. If he and the family survived it Jed would be arrested for discharge of an unregistered, illegal, fi rearm. Did he have a hunt-ing license? I’m betting not. What was he hunting? Was it restricted, our of season, or endangered?

Animal rights activist de-scend on the area. They are FURIOUS!

Let’s not forget the press. They need their nightly vil-lain to fi ll air time. Report-ers would soon fi ll the hills searching for other odd mountain people who ac-tually shoot guns and hunt and kill innocent endan-gered animals with fi rearms and feed their children this un-inspected non-govern-ment approved food. And what about the children? Look at those homemade cloths. Nothing is store bought. Why, these weir-does are completely self-suffi cient. How strange is THAT? Listen to his neph-ew Jethro speak. It’s obvi-ous the children are home schooled.

Now, about that oil spill

Jed just caused: Here comes the EPA, the Interior Department, and a host of environmental groups. Jed will be fi ned, sued, and forced to pay for the clean-up and land reclamation. He will spend years in court and in jail and lose every-thing in the fi ght.

OH, and let’s not forget the press. They are not done with Jed. Not by a long shot. They are now showing Jed as that gun toting extremist living in the hills that caused the eco’ disaster. They will glee-fully report that his children have been turned over to the state so they can be raised properly.

Will Jed ever be able to capture and sell the oil he has discovered on his land? Once again here comes the BLM, EPA, the Interior Department, and a host of environmental groups. Any of these groups alone are enough to block Jed from leasing the drilling rights to any oil company. Even if he were to make the deal these companies will face years of permitting proce-dures before they are al-lowed to drill. If they ever are allowed to drill. Be-cause of this Jed and his family will continue to live in poverty and will have no choice but to sign on to the government dole in or-der to survive, as will their children, for generations to come. If he is ever allowed to see his children again.

But, this might be for the better.

If Jed were allowed to sell the drilling rights, and be-come a rich man, he might have thought of moving to Beverly Hills. His neigh-bors, once his friends, would envy and curse him, because these days “rich” is evil.

In Beverly Hills Jed would have been fi nically wiped out by a combination of Federal, State, County, and City taxes, which is ok because being “RICH” is “EVIL!” And let’s not for-get the press. They are not done with Jed. Not by

a long shot. Some back-woods, gun clinging, Bible hugging, fl at head, home schooling, hillbilly oil ty-coon just bought a home in Beverly Hills. It is obvious that someone so “lucky” is not paying his “fair share” in taxes.

Then the Hollywood NUT JOBS would have shown up, with their guilt trips on the Clampett’s excessive lifestyles. Their big screen TV, their old clunker that they should have tuned in for a hybrid, and so on. Even thought those same Hollywood nut jobs live just up the road from Jed in mansions just as big and ride around in limos and private jets.

Wishing to live in her old traditional ways Granny will try to raise livestock and grow crops in the back yard of their Beverly Hills mansion. But local ordi-nances will prohibit her from growing crops on her own property. Then, here comes PETA, to defend the animals Granny intended to raise and slaughter for dinner. PETA will try to take the animals. Granny will cry THEIF and chase PETA off with her gun. Soon af-ter S.W.A.T. will arrive on the scene and, after the inevitable three day stand off, if she survives it, they will drag her off to prison. Let’s not forget the press, once again. They will want a perp’ walk from Granny. They need something good to fi ll the time on the nightly news.

At one time Beverly Hills California would have been the American Dream. But these days Jed would be much better off moving to Texas, where the there is no state income tax, and wealth is celebrated as an achievement.

Yes, there was a time when a good man like Jed Clampett could have lived the American Dream. But we have allowed the inmates to take over the asylum, and a good man like Jed could not become successful, even if he tried.

The Beverly Hillbillies - In the year 2011

By Glenn Woods

Bold Republic Weekly

To listen to Glenn Woods morning radio show tune in to 1270am KIML Gillette

Monday through Friday from 6 - 10 a.m.

I’m currently fi nding myself in one of those awkward situations where knowing what direction to take is not clear. Not that such decisions are ever abundantly clear to me but generally one has a good idea of how to respond to a new dilemma and, right or wrong, the option is exercised with minimal debate. My current confl ict has arisen quickly and leaves me signifi cantly time pressured to make a move due to its rapid growth that seems to have infi ltrated nearly every aspect of life itself.

No, not the new swine fl u scares. I guess technically it is the H1N1 fl u which is a good deal less than dramatic than the image of germ ridden hordes of feral pigs marching through health systems across the country having illegally immigrated un-der the guise of providing pork barrel sup-plies to politicians. Besides, who thought up the H1N1 name anyway? There has to be a person somewhere who coined this catchy little roll off your tongue title. What was it the intent? I mean is it like those sometimes hard to fi gure out personalized license plates and stands for Hon-None? If not, the being who fi rst mouthed this mundane moniker needs to be stopped before he (she) is allowed to name any-thing else.

But no, the issue is not the (hopefully to be renamed later) fl u.

It is twittering.It is as if this phenomena is about to

leave me in the dust, unable to catch up to the world. Everywhere I read, hear about, see on the tube, etc. is about twit-tering. They are even talking twit in the comics for pity’s sake. Sporting events are featuring twittering with participation by broadcasters, even players have been ad-monished for twittering in the locker room during a game. (I’d pay to see a Bobby Knight reaction to fi nding one of his play-ers twittering during a game. My hunch is the admonishment would be signifi cant).

I remember resisting becoming com-puter savvy. I fought it off for a while but then kind of embraced the whole concept once I saw that in spite of my protesta-tions about the distinct advantages of writing longhand or via typewriter (there are none) becoming friends with comput-ers simplifi ed my life signifi cantly. I just resisted it because it was new and un-known to me. Now the typewriter sits next to the abacus I held onto during my initial reluctance to utilize calculators.

Cell phones and I became acquainted later than most and I still have it off more often than not. I mean the notion of being available to anyone with a phone at any time is a bit disconcerting to one who has always felt a tad adversarial toward phones of any kind. Prior to caller ID or answering machines I would go days at a time not answering the phone if alone in the house. It was just, I don’t know, kind of freeing in a way. These days I carry a

cell but refuse to ever have one of those strange holster devices on my belt. These tend to allow one to be able to draw it out quickly I imagine. Sort of like a Ma Bell gunslinger able to answer calls for gro-cery list additions at a moment’s notice. I also refuse to ever wear the ear sets that enable you to share the most humdrum moments of your life (“yeah, hi, I’m clean-ing the bathroom right now.”) with others without lifting a fi nger (or phone for that matter).

With each of these world altering in-novations I had a bit of time to absorb the changes. I could gradually inch along my technological pathway and somewhat ease myself into acclimating them into my life.

Twittering seems different. For one thing if I am correct in my assumption of what gets twittered it is like texting but differ-ent. I do not text. I fi nd it grammatically annoying being that I am somewhat of a syntax snob. The USA Today newspaper even has a crossword type puzzle based on popular text spellings.

I do not do them.But I imagine twittering must be some-

thing more since you are connected (again, presuming my presumption is accurate) to a multitude of people who are privy to your messages. Then there are tweets. They are, I assume, responses to twitters or related in some apiarian manner.

If this is correct, I said recently to Tim, one of my more brutally truthful acquain-tances, the twitterer is assuming there are a whole lot of people out there who give a rat’s behind what they are thinking, doing, or saying.

“One would make that assumption, yes.”Well, I for one cannot imagine what any-

one would possibly see enlightening or entertaining to learn in some chopped up protracted version of language the various mindless meanderings of one who feels compelled to share these with anyone willing to read them.

“You don’t get the concept.”What concept? Unless there is some

magic I am missing I cannot see what would compel one to engage in the whole exchange. It is not like there is any real substance to what they are saying.

“Well for once I agree with you.”You do?“Yes. The whole notion of people actu-

ally interested in the ramblings of others and reading them regularly seems a bit twisted and wrong.”

You mean like in twittering and tweet-ing?

“Well, that too, but I was thinking of it in a broader sense.”

What do you mean?“You know, like people who read your

column.”

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“The Spitball was only banned because those damned owners greedily

sold out to the home run.”- Ty Cobb

Susan Heusinkveld accepts a baseball by KIML morning talk show host Glenn Woods. The baseball was signed by the entire Gillette Roughriders team including the coaches. Susan won the baseball by answering the quiz question “When was the spitball banned?” The answer was that in 1920 after a player got killed by a shot in the temple, the owners decided to ban the pitch. Pitchers already throwing the spitball were grandfathered in and threw well into the thirties. Many players have been caught by the “Spitter” since, though it is an illegal pitch.

Susan won the prize by listening to the live broadcast of the game on Saturday live at Roughrider Stadium. The show was done by Ted Ripko (play by play an-nouncer) and Nick De Laat (color announcer). She was the only contestant to e-mail the right answer in. Glenn Woods, presenting the ball to Susan, was working on a van at the time. The owner of this newspaper thought that the picture would be a great photo opportunity in his coveralls. The van is now parked where he is living down by the river.

To listen to all of Ted and Nick’s live local sports broadcasts tune in to KIML Gil-lette for the games for football, basketball, and baseball.

Friday, July 29-Roughriders @ Wyoming State Tourney, Cheyenne, TBA-Rustlers @ JR Regional, Sheri-dan, TBA

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What’s Going On In Sports?

After 13 performances of amazing rodeo action, new champions were crowned at the 63rd Annual National High School Finals Ro-deo (NHSFR) on Saturday, July 23rd in Gillette, Wyoming. A total of 1,461 students from the United States, Canada, and Australia competed in this year’s NHSFR. Performances were featured throughout the week of July 17th, with the top 20 athletes in each event qualifying for the championship round on July 23rd.

Event champions and All-Around winners include:All- Around Cowboy: Garrett Smith of Rexburg, Idaho; All-

Around Cowgirl: McKenna Wagner of Broken Arrow, Okla.; Bareback Riding: Blaine Kaufman of Pretty Prairie, Kan.; Barrel Racing: Rachel Primm of Washoe Valley, Nev.; Breakaway Rop-ing: Brandi Hollenbeck of Hutchinson, Kan.; Bull Riding: Tyler Bingham of Honeyville, Utah; Tie-Down Roping: Garrison Cannon of St George, Utah; Boys Cutting: Hunter Hightower of Bluff Dale, Texas; Girls Cutting: Paige Hadlock of Ogden,Utah; Goat Tying: Hayden Segelke of Snyder, Colo.; Pole Bending: Heather Hassler of Madisonville, Texas; Saddle Bronc Riding: Shade Etbauer of Goodwell, Okla.; Steer Wrestling: Noah Lassa of Merrill, Wisc.; and Team Roping: Marcus Banister of Brighton, Colo. and Brit Ellerman of Fort Lupton, Colo.

In addition, the state of Texas took top team honors at this year’s NHSFR, with Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho, and New Mexico rounding out the top five. Dakota Passey of Alberta was also crowned the new 2011-2012 NHSRA Queen. Passey is the first Albertan to win the title sinceTrish Kostelansky won the coveted crown in 1985. A comprehensive list of results and final overall standings may be found by visiting www.nhsra.org or by visiting www.nhsra.ihigh.com and clicking the appropriate links along the left- hand column. For more information on the NHSFR and the National High School Ro-deo Association, contact NHSRA Media Director, Mike Hausmann, at [email protected]

The National High School Rodeo Association is one of the fastest growing youth organizations in the nation, with an an-nual membership of over 12,500 students from 41 states, five Canadian provinces and Australia. The Association sanctions over 1,100 rodeos each year. The NHSRA is governed by a national board of direc- tors, which consists of one member from each state or province. A staff at the national headquarters in Denver,Colorado,handlestheday-to-dayoperations. FormoreinformationontheNHSRA,visittheasso- ciation’s official website located at www.nhsra.org.

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Our Roots

Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Michelle Bachman; These names for many of us invoke a vision of power-ful women who vied for some of our nation’s highest offic-es. However, there is anoth-er woman we should remem-ber. Her name is not one we are taught in schools, or one we hear on the news. However, in many ways it is just as im-portant. That name is Victo-ria Woodhull, and 139 years ago, she ran for President of the United States of America.

Born Victoria California Claflin in September 23, 1838, Woodhull lived a very modest childhood. Her father, accused of being a conman and criminal among oth-er things, did not have the means or motivation to supply Victoria or

her nine brothers and sisters with a privileged upbringing. It was, perhaps, for this reason that she married a doctor, Canning Wood-hull, in 1853 at the age of 15. Af-

ter giving birth to her son the next year, she began mak-ing a living by performing in various fash-ions, including a brief stint as a fortuneteller. She would have a daugh-ter.

She di-vorced Wood-hull in 1864 after learning he was an al-coholic, later marrying Col-

onel James Blood in 1866. The couple moved to New York City in 1868, where she quickly be-came friends with the city’s elite, namely railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. It was with Vander-bilt’s help that Woodhull and her sister became the first female stockbrokers in the country.

Victoria WoodhullBy Mike Borda

The Powder River Basin has seen many booms over the years. Thanks to its abundant natural resourc-es, Northeast Wyoming has made a huge impact on the world energy market and will likely continue to do so for many years to come. But the first large-scale commercial enterprise in our area happened long before the coal mines were dug, before the crude-oil wells were drilled, and be-fore coal-bed methane be-came a household word. It was the beef cattle industry.

Starting in the late 1870s and continuing into the first decades of the 20th cen-tury, thousands upon thou-sands of cattle were driven through our part of the state to establish ranches in Mon-tana, the Dakotas and Wy-oming. In turn, thousands of cattle were driven and/or shipped via rail out of our area to eastern beef mar-kets in places like Chicago and Omaha. Large scale cattle drives from Texas to railheads in Kansas had al-ready been in full swing for a decade before the great drives began making their way north to Wyoming and Montana. The high-tide of cattle moving came in the mid-1880s. It was estimat-ed that 260,000 cattle had been moved north in 1883 alone.

But the very first of the Texas to Montana cattle drives happened in 1866 in the midst of one the most violent of conflicts between Indians and white men known as Red Cloud’s War. Nelson Story, the man who led the drive, had no idea he was pioneering an industry. In fact, when he bought 1,000 head of long-horns in Texas, he had no intention of driving them to Montana at all.

Nelson Story was born in 1838 in Ohio. He and his wife migrated north from Colorado to the gold fields of Bannack and Vir-ginia City, Montana in 1863, where he staked a claim that eventually made him a small fortune. In the mean-time, he made money haul-ing supplies by pack mule, and his wife, Ellen, sold baked goods to the miners. By 1866 Story had netted $30,000 in gold which he determined to convert to cash money. Leaving Ellen in Bozeman with a preacher and his wife, Story travelled east and converted his gold into $40,000 cash. The bulk went into a bank and $10,000 went with Story to Texas to buy cattle.

His original plan was to buy what cattle he could in Texas, drive them north to a railhead in Kansas and sell them for a hefty profit

before returning to Mon-tana. Cattle droving from Texas to Kansas had yet to come into its own; at this date in mid-1866, Story would be one of the first to trail a sizeable herd north. Charles Goodnight, with partner Oliver Loving had only recently trailed a herd from central Texas to Fort Sumner, New Mexico earli-er that year. It would be two more years before Good-night would drive a herd all the way to Cheyenne, Wyoming, completing what would become known as the Goodnight-Loving Trail.

History disagrees about just how many cattle Story bought with his $10,000. Some accounts say as many as 3,000 head, al-though his grandson, Mal-colm Story, put the total at 1,000 longhorns, with a trial crew of 27 cowboys, plus a small wagon train load-ed with small goods to be taken back to Montana and sold there. The trail drive left Fort Worth and headed north, through the Indian Territory that would become Oklahoma and on toward Kansas.

Near Baxter Springs, Kansas, the trail drive came to a halt. Jayhawkers- for-mer Union raiders, turned organized cattle thieves- gave Story the ultimatum of turning his herd over to

The First Cattle Drive

By Jeff Morrison

them or returning to Indian Territory. Story, known for his stubborn resolve, decid-ed he would take his herd to Montana, instead. Such a thing had never been at-tempted. The very fact that a herd would have to cross several hundred miles of hotly contested Indian hunt-ing grounds was enough to make the task nearly im-possible and had a greater chance in ending in failure of the most deadly kind than it did in success. Nel-son Story was no fool; he knew very well what risks he was facing. But ever the shrewd businessman, Story also knew that beef in Montana would bring a price ten times more than his investment.

Story gave the Jayhawk-ers the slip and turned his herd northwest, reaching Fort Laramie in eastern Wyoming without much in-cident. Fort Laramie, a ma-jor trading post long before becoming a military fort, was the unofficial commer-cial center of all things go-ing west. Emigrants on their way to California, Utah, Or-egon and the Montana gold fields used the fort as their final chance to resupply be-fore heading into the wild, and the fort sold a bit of everything, including beef. The post commander saw Story’s arrival as an oppor-tunity to buy 1,000 head of cattle cheap and, citing the recent Indian uprising that was wreaking havoc up and down the Bozeman Trail, tried to persuade Story to sell him the cattle. Story declined to sell and bought Henry repeating rifles from the sutler instead.

There were two alterna-tive routes Story and com-pany could have chosen. One would call for them to continue west on the Or-egon Trail until reaching

Utah before turning north through Idaho into western Montana. The other would call for a turn north onto Bridger’s Trail, which ran up through the Big Horn Basin. Either one would have been much safer than taking the Bozeman Trail. But the Bozeman road was shorter, had better grass and more water than the alternatives. So, shorten-ing his stay at Fort Laramie, lest the post commander get the idea of using force to buy the cattle, Nelson Story, 1,000 head of Texas longhorns, 15 wagons and 27 cowboys, armed to the teeth, set out for Virginia City. Somewhere near the site where Fort Fetterman would be established the next year, Story turned the herd north, into a war zone, and made Wyoming history.

Near Fort Reno, on the banks of the Powder River, due west of North Pumpkin Butte, the inevitable hap-pened. The Sioux stole part of the herd and stampeded the rest. After rounding up what had been stampeded the crew went in search of the stolen cattle. The In-dians got the worst of the fight that followed. Although the Indians continued to ha-rass the drovers, only one death occurred during the drive; that of a night herder who was found riddled with enough arrows to “look like a rotary hair brush”.

At Fort Phil Kearney, Col-onel Henry B. Carrington, citing the Indian danger, for-bade Story and his herd to continue. He also ordered Story to park his herd about three miles away from the fort for sanitary reasons. Colonel Carrington woke up a couple mornings later and discovered Story and his herd were gone. Car-rington, perhaps reflecting that if he sent his hot-head-

ed young captain, William Fetterman to force Story and his 27 heavily armed cowboys to return some-thing bad might happen, decided to let it pass.

As Nelson Story’s herd left in the night, it passed unremarkably over a long finger of ridge where, a month later, Captain Fetter-man would lead a force of 81 men to their deaths by a very well planned and exe-cuted ambush. Carrington, himself, would be relieved of command five days later. As for Nelson Story and his herd of Texas longhorns – he continued on to the Paradise Valley near mod-ern Livingston, Montana without further incident by either Indians or the United States Army.

Story started a successful ranching business with his herd and an equally suc-cessful store in Bozeman with his wagons of small goods. He would later get into the flour mill business, open a bank and dabble heavily in real-estate in Los Angeles, California. A mere 28 years old when he trailed his cattle north, Story died in 1926 at the age of 87. His descendants still live in the Gallatin Valley today.

As for his pioneer cattle drive to Montana; he proved it could be done, but it was years before anyone tried it again. It was not until the threat of Indian wars died out in 1877 that cattle drov-ing to Wyoming and Mon-tana began in earnest. The modern town of Story, Wyo-ming is, of course, named after him. Story’s drive to Montana, along with Good-night and Loving’s drive to Colorado in 1867, became the inspiration for Larry Mc-Murtry’s novel, Lonesome Dove.

“In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a

nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Their success in this new field allowed them to publish their own journal, named Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly. In that age, women in positions of power did not sit well with the men in charge, and those men made their opin-ions clear: National newspapers, while acknowledging the success of the sisters, even went so far as to characterize them as pros-titutes.

However, as we have seen be-fore, doubt and cynicism often make the greatest motivators. This was the case for Woodhull as well. In response to the criti-cism, they began using their pub-lication to stretch the boundaries of social discussions of the day, writing opinion essays on free love, vegetarianism, and wom-en’s suffrage. In a famous move, Woodhull was also the first editor to publish an English version of the Communist Manifesto from Karl Marx.

The popularity that Woodhull found with her publication drove her to become a leader in the Na-tional Woman Suffrage Associa-tion, giving her colleagues such as Susan B. Anthony and Eliza-beth Cady Stanton.

Soon after these develop-ments, she finally had her biggest moment. A new political forma-tion, the Equal Rights Part, nomi-nated Woodhull for President on May 10, 1872. Never before had a woman run for President, and although she was not take espe-cially seriously by the public, the ideas she put forward were the most important things. She cam-paigned on equality, freedom,

and justice. Her Vice-Presidential nominee, although he never ac-cepted the position, was the fa-mous former slave, Frederick Douglass, making hers one of the first attempts at a multi-racial ticket.

While the legal qualifications of her nomination are still in ques-tion, since women did not have the right to vote at the time, many historians consider her run for President unconstitutional and invalid, there is no doubt this was an historic moment in American politics.

Although she garnered no ac-tual electoral votes, it is still un-known how many popular votes she received. The impact must have been far reaching, however, because the backlash Woodhull incurred was far too substantial to

have been from purely her publi-cations. Days before the election, she, along with her husband and sister, were arrested for publish-ing “obscene” literature. It would not be the last time.

After being arrested on seem-ingly random charges eight times in the coming months, she could not stand the political or mone-tary pressure of constant scrutiny. After divorcing her husband, and later remarrying, she moved to England in 1878, never stopping her campaigning for women’s rights.

Although Victoria Woodhull died in 1927, her impact has not died. It is because of women like her that today we are closer than ever to truly having equality in America.

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