ByWyoming Public Media & American Heritage Center•Sep 24, 2018
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Most Americans know about the U.S. Transcontinental Railway. But did you know that Canada has its own coast-to-coast railroad known as the Canadian Pacific Railway?
ByWyoming Public Media & American Heritage Center•Sep 21, 2018
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In the 1970s and 80s, the proposed Wagon Wheel Project would have used underground nuclear devices to obtain natural gas outside of Pinedale, Wyoming. The project was stopped before it ever began.
ByWyoming Public Media & American Heritage Center•Sep 20, 2018
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Herbert Luft was a German journalist. In 1938, Luft and his wife Pepi were in the Dachau concentration camp for six months. They fled to the US before World War II began in 1939.
ByWyoming Public Media & American Heritage Center•Sep 18, 2018
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Will Lee is best known for playing the kindly grocer Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street in the 1970s. Before Sesame Street Lee was blacklisted from acting for being a suspected communist.
ByWyoming Public Media & American Heritage Center•Sep 17, 2018
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Wyoming’s Powder River Basin is big coal country. Wyodak Resources Development has operated mines in the Basin for about a century. But something else has been using up Powder River coal much longer: fire.
ByWyoming Public Media & American Heritage Center•Sep 17, 2018
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Joseph C. O’Mahoney served as U.S. Senator from Wyoming from 1933 to 1960. O’Mahoney also had a weekly show where he interviewed notable figures from America.
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson aired on television from 1952 to 1966. The show depicted a fictional version of the lives of the actual Nelson family.
ByWyoming Public Media & American Heritage Center•Aug 28, 2018
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In 1932 Amelia Earhart published a book called The Fun of It. The book is not hard to come by. You can check out a copy at the library, buy it on Amazon, etc.
ByWyoming Public Media & American Heritage Center•Aug 23, 2018
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Swimming holes and sumo wrestling are not usually associated with barbed wire and guards, but all of these existed together at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.
ByWyoming Public Media & American Heritage Center•Aug 16, 2018
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In 1908 a large drought hit Laramie and most of Wyoming. But Laramie’s residents loved to water their new lawns using their sprinkler systems, especially Grace Raymond Hebard, the first historian of Wyoming.