Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans this year is February 13, but there are many activities and parades which began in January.
The origins of Mardi Gras can be traced to medieval Europe. In 1699, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville, arrived in the New World some 60 mile south of what is now New
Most of us who have lived in Wyoming for many years have our stories about bad winters, extremely cold temperatures, deep snows and blizzards. But the nice winters go almost unnoticed. Still, it is nice to look back in time and see that that there were many ‘open winters’ like we are having so far t
Labor Day is an old holiday in the United States, it was declared a federal holiday in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland. But, before it was an official federal holiday, Labor Day was recognized as a holiday in several individual states.
Sheridan Enterprise, September 7, 1909 - Labor Day and its
The 1975 movie, Bite the Bullet, with Gene Hackman, Candice Bergan and James Coburn, was about a 700-mile endurance horse race. The inspiration for the movie was a 600-mile horse race held from Evanston, Wyoming to Denver, Colorado, in 1908.
Western author, Jack Schaefer author of Shane and Monte
Today, many people look forward to Memorial Day as the first day of summer, a day when families put on cook-outs, people break out boats after a winter of frozen lakes, and on Lake DeSmet, it is the weekend of the annual fishing derby.
But, Memorial Day has a much more solemn meaning. To go back