Wyoming Articles

Wyoming Day at the Stock Show – Denver, Colorado, USA

Hardcore city slicker, Roy A. Barnes, got back in touch with his Western roots from his visit to the National Western Stock Show.

Roy’s Third Helping of Casper: The Food – Casper, Wyoming, USA

You can enjoy plenty of big-city dining experiences in the middle of sparsely-populated Wyoming. Let Roy A. Barnes show you how.

Roy’s Second Helping of Casper, Wyoming – Casper, Wyoming, USA

Roy A. Barnes takes you back where his writing and international travel passions took root. Experience a few bizarre and interesting sights in the Casper, Wyoming area.

Yellowstone National Park – Yellowstone, Wyoming

What to do at the world’s oldest National Park.

Frontier and Personal History Blend Together in Casper, Wyoming – Casper, Wyoming
Poptopping in Vedauwoo (Part 1) – Vedauwoo, Wyoming, USA

Picture it: three drunken college co-eds…one studly guy that rescued them…and a poptop camper full of beer.

August 2002 – Wyoming Ghost Towns – Wyoming, USA

August 2002 – Wyoming Ghost Towns

Fighting Fort Washakie’s South Fork Fire

Northfork Fire crews load up at Fort Washakie last Saturday for a
Dickinson Park ride.

Thin white ash drifting like snow during a sweltering early July afternoon last week had many Riverton, Wyoming residents joking about a “Washakie Winter.” Humor aside, such comments were ominous. Around 2 [...]

Is Yellowstone National Park North America’s Pompeii? – Wyoming, USA

December 2001 – Wyoming Ghost Towns

Heart Mountain, Wyoming – Wyoming, USA

November 2001 – Wyoming Ghost Towns
By Mike Jamison

World War II’s Japanese-American Relocation Camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming

The Heart Mountain camp’s power plant.

Early 20th Century Model-T tourists dubbed it the “Old Yellowstone Highway.” And for me, as with them, this solitary yet starkly beautiful route through the Rockies to Old Faithful has always promised untethered [...]

So You Want to Mine Coal: Gebo, Wyoming – Gebo, Wyoming, USA

November 2001 – Wyoming Ghost Towns
So You Want to Mine Coal: Gebo, Wyoming

Gebo’s graveyard reveals the miners’ struggle.

He was exploited, worked long dangerous hours underground; meager pay fed his family; social security didn’t exist; labor laws were practically non-existent – and a canary provided life insurance.

Think of him when modern office politics dog you. Yes, [...]