The world needs more cowboys – and we’ve got ‘em.
We all love living in this great state and whenever you need a little reminder of the beauty, freedom and grit of our land and our people, head to the library.
We’ve got the entire Longmire series by Wyoming native Craig Johnson, in books, audiobooks, and Playaways, as well as available for download in ebook or audio form. We also have the Netflix series on DVD.
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Every year they hold ‘Longmire Days’ in Buffalo, a multi-day celebration featuring all things Longmire. Even the stars of the show attend. Check some titles out and you’ll be ready.
When Rilla Askew first read one of Joy Harjoâs poems in 1989 as she sat in a motel in St. Louis, she was stunned by the power of her words.Â
âI just kind of fell back on the bed,â Askew said. âI was so knocked out by the power of it, by the beauty of it, by the pain, and by the honesty and by the things that I recognized that were so particularly Oklahoma and so particularly Native.âÂ
Harjoâs poems, which were featured in âOklahoma Indian Markings,â the spring 1989 edition of the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, alongside some of Askewâs work, were written toward the beginning of Harjoâs career as her poetry received increasing acclaim, Askew said.  Â
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Two Kansas City boys hiked the famous road west in 1874 to make their mark in the cattle trade.
The Arkansas River flowed by the original Fort Lyon complex, American Indian teepees and livestock. The river flooded the first fort in 1866, causing the second fort to be built near Las Animas in 1867.
– Courtesy of The Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-19367 –
The Santa Fe Trail, a vital commercial route, developed international trade between the United States and Mexico, fostered commerce on the Plains, served as a military road and contributed to westward expansion in the United States. William Becknell and five men, desiring a profitable outcome, began a momentous journey September 1, 1821, from Franklin, Missouri, and in November reached Santa Fe in what was then northern Mexico. Becknell’s venture was lucrative, and commerce significantly increased along the Santa Fe Trail, which evolved and divided into the Cimarron and Mountain Route
While many art forms have hit a dead end during the pandemic, murals have continued to spread across Colorado. But if you want to venture out to see street-art paintings past and present, good luck: It s not easy to track them down much less trace their historic roots.
There s no map or guidebook that tells the story of the art on walls and buildings around the state. No cultural institution preserves its history, either. Not History Colorado. Not the Western History Collection at the Denver Public Library. Not the Denver Art Museum. That makes it difficult to determine what s been painted, who did it when.and why. Sometimes, the where disappears altogether.