Wales Visit Yields Warm Welsh Hospitality and Festival
John Tanner writes from Llanfyllin Wales about staying in a Welsh speaking area, praising the generous hosts, farm labor, and local music festival. The letter notes a Wyoming Legion convention action to defend veteran tax exemptions and lists new state officers and auxiliary leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ody
Wyoming
American Legionnaires
Legion
Wyoming Department of the Legion
Legionaires
Kirk Coulter
Gillette
F. W. Barting
Douglas
Natonal
Cheyenne
J. M. Haines
Casper
Sidney Armitage
Lander
Henry Gunther
Jackson
Helen Hardin
Cash Kelley
Cody
Lawrence Slider
Newcastle
William Eaton
Saretoga
Rendezvous Committee Calls for Potatoes and Cake
The Rendezvous Committee requests Sublette County women bring potato salad and a cake to the Rendezvous on Sunday Day 1st.
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Sublette County
Aerial herbicide work on Wyoming ranches progresses
Aerial spraying of sagebrush and willows with herbicide has been completed on the Budé and Son, Thompson, Tanner, and Bar Cross ranches totaling about 1000 acres. Next week work will continue on several Big Piney Soil Conservation District properties as five sections of plastic lined irrigation ditches are installed for an experimental comparison of plastic materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Budé
Green River Rendezvous and Big Piney July Fest Set
Three days of entertainment begin July 1 at Daniel with a Green River Rendezvous featuring rodeos barbecue and history. July 3 and 4 Big Piney hosts Chuck Wagon Days with a race meet rodeo and a 4th of July barbecue and dance. Rodeo events include bareback saddle bronc calf roping and steer roping with winners and sponsors named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel
Big Piney
Green River
Walthe Eld
Big Piney Rodeo Grounds
Big Pineytions Club
Rodeo
al Fanelli
Orchestra
Rock Springs
Gloria Lozier
Lowe Wardell
Bob Lozier, Jr
JackiLoaier
Betty Lodier
Nancy Lozier
Norma Widick
Roping Club
iSixty
Dewey Bakes
Bus Fear
Pinedale Roping Club
Jack Schwabacher
Harvey Atwood
Boulder
Wyo
Les Anderson
Pinedale
Frank Getty
Lander
Jep Richie
Ronnie Hymas
Jackson
Harvey Stone
Gilbert Taylor
Mt. View
Harold Meeks
Baby Lozier
Burnt Fork
Louie Wardell
Cora
Bill Neal
Gene Gamble
Gene Bftsterer
Billy Bloom
Lowie Wardell
Ike McWilliams
Big Pinny
Anderson-Penton Co
Yellowstone Distributing Co
Harmy Lone
Gene Pfisterer
Club Bar
Norman Barlow
Core
Cal Ward
Cowboy Bar
Leo Livingston
Daniel Trading Co
Joe Hay
State lands open for grazing sublet in Sublette County
Ten day window opens for applications on state grazing lands in Sublette County. Lands in Township 35 North Range 113 West and Township 29 North Range 1142 West require rental offers and fees for lease to the first qualified applicant. Public Lands Commissioner to accept bids at Room 113 Capitol Building Cheyenne. Red Cross in Pinedale elects Woodrow Nelson Chairman Hugh Reed Secretary and others to two year terms. Arnold Olson and Hime Olson families visited Ft. Bridger last weekend.
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Range
Commissioner of Public Lands
Capitol Building
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Red Cross
Pinedale
Woodrow Nelson
Hugh Reed
Pete McReynolds
Harold Faler
Home Service
Arnold Olson
Hime Olson
Ft. Bridger
Reltives
Pinedale Rodeos Shine With Parade and Grand Entry
Gloria Lozier and Caryn Bing report a two day Pinedale rodeo drawing about fifteen hundred spectators. The event opened with grand entries and a Sunday parade on Main Street led by Barbara Ritchie and Rita Ru land, followed by local clubs and the Sweetwater County Posse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Ritchie
Rita Ruland
Pinsdale Roping Club
Sublette County Horsemen
Sweetwater County Sheriff's
Streetwater County Sheriff's Posse
Morris Horton
W. J. Bing
Joe Lenire
Bill Bloom
Ed Brewer
Joe Chrisman
Big Piney
Elton Cooley
Meet Me on the Green Mystery Picnic Tale
A fragment describes an outdoor gathering labeled a picnic with ants and practical jokes. It hints at a mystery surrounding the event and asks who is involved or behind it.
Death of Fort Bridger businessman in Mountainview collision
Ernest Dahlquist well known Ft. Bridger businessman died instantly Monday June 25 after his car was struck by a semi truck at Mountainview Wyoming. He leaves wife Gladys Olson Dahlquist three children five grandchildren five brothers and two sisters plus his mother. Funeral set for St Helen's Mission chapel Ft. Bridger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Dahlquist
Ft. Bridger
Wye
Mountainview
Wyoming
Dahquist
Nels Dahlquist
Teton Courlty
Big Piney
Gladys Olson
Igte
Charles Olson
Arnold
Elmer
Lester Olson
Dahlquist
Gladys
Ernest
Mary Louise
Ft Bridger
Charles Widdop
Green River
John
Oscar
Nels
Gari
Henry
Elna
Christoffers
Mary Dahlquish
St. Helen’s Mission Chapel
Rendezvous Horse Racing and Pogues at the Beavers Rendezvous
In the days before uranium, the Rendezvous featured hunting and gambling with horse racing as a main draw. Pat Hickman and his horse Picnic dominated the betting scenes, winning by slim margins and drawing crowds as stories and bragging ran high among the gamblers and onlookers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Williams
Pat
Picnic
Prenic
Fat
Aroud
Indiana
Also Mentioned on This Page
John Tanner
Wales
Llanfyllin
U. S
Yellowstone
Percy Kirk
Bob Lezar
Erte
C. D. News
Wyoming Natural Resources Board
James F. Mickelson
Floyd A. Bishop
Tand Vo
Soda Lake
Muddy Creek
Hope Ditch
O'Neil
C. W. Lauritzen
Frank Helms
Agricultural Research Service
Utah State Agricultural College
Logan
Tee McWilliams
Big Pinsy
Huttle
Gene Pfister
Time
Caryn Bing
Myra Cooley
Ft. Bridger Highway
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