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The National High School Finals Rodeo (NHSFR) wrapped up this past weekend in Rock Springs.
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Photographer David Dudley trains his lens on Cheyenne Frontier Days' Grand Parade.
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Medicine Lodge Archaeological Site recently opened a new immersive cultural center focused on historic and ongoing Indigenous connections to the area. The state park is in the Bighorn Basin, just north of Hyattville, and is home to a large 750-foot sandstone cliff with hundreds of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs. Archaeological digs have revealed that there’s more than 10,000 years of human history at the site.
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Schools and libraries are seeing unprecedented attempts to pull books, deemed controversial by some, off the shelves. A new study finds those books are often about and by diverse people.
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As Laramie’s PrideFest celebrations built to a crescendo, the community gathered downtown for a drag show at the Collective. The performers leaned into the theme of the night — all things floral and blossoming — but they each brought a unique vision to that theme and to drag itself, demonstrating queer joy even as new legislation targets LGBTQ+ rights.
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Wyoming is at odds with a lot of federal conservation efforts, but Wyoming lawmakers, ranchers and wildlife advocates recently celebrated the areas where the state, feds and private landowners agree. They highlighted a ranch in Big Piney.
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This year Yellowstone Revealed features a traditional teepee at all five entrances to Yellowstone National Park. The project explores the theme, “How the Land Remembers Us: Tribal Tipi Lodge and Buffalo Stories.”
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Wind River Pride is hosting a series of events in Lander and Riverton this month to celebrate Pride. Their most recent meetup was a Queers with Quills creative writing night.
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What some deem the “most difficult cycling race on Earth” has reached the Cowboy State. The Tour Divide is a nearly 2,800-mile course that loosely follows the Continental Divide.
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The General Custer portrait by Andy Warhol is now on display at the Whitney Western Art Museum. It will be part of an exhibition next year that looks at how Western art and pop art intersect.
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A short film titled “How the Land Remembers Us” premiered at the Mountains of Color Film Festival in Jackson on June 9. The film documents efforts to shine a light on ongoing Indigenous connection to what is now called Yellowstone National Park through the Yellowstone Revealed project, which first took place in 2022 during the park’s 150th anniversary.
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Wyomingite and New York Times best selling author CJ Box released his 24th novel in the Joe Pickett series earlier this year. Wyoming Public Media's Grady Kirkpatrick recently spoke with the author about his newest book, called “Three Inch Teeth.”