Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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Saratoga, population 1,671 souls, and elevation 6,785 feet, appeared spread out in front of him after he topped a long rise. The town was choked with cottonwoods and he could see a wide ribbon of river through the middle of it. The air shimmered over the hot stack of a lumber mill on the edge of the town. On Tuesday, March 27 game warden Joe Pickett returns home. So to speak. For his new book, "The Disappeared," New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box sets the story in the...
The Lodge & Spa at Brush Creek Ranch announced they will host their annual “Valley Strong” concert fundraiser to benefit local charities at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 17 at the Platte Valley Community Center located at 210 W Elm Ave in Saratoga. This year’s concert will feature the Oak Ridge Boys, one of the most distinctive and recognizable quartets in Gospel and Country music. Tickets are now on sale at the Platte Valley Community Center Box Office in Saratoga. Prices are $60 each for general admission seats and $100 each for P... Full story
Devon Allman first came to Saratoga as a young musician who, through a random encounter in a Minneapolis bar, had chanced into a strange gig in a town he'd never heard about. It was 2006, and though Allman was the son of Gregg Allman, of Allman Brothers fame, Devon was still relatively unknown. Big Name, Small Town A little over a decade later, that's no longer true. As the Allman scion noted at a Nov. 25 private recital hosted by the Hotel Wolf, he has now cut nine albums... Full story
The Colorado country-inflected rockers Slopeside made good on the promise of their song "See You in Saratoga" Saturday night, April 30. The band was in town to play a three hour show at the Saratoga Resort and Spa, where a crowd of about 60 turned out to hear a wide-ranging, high-energy performance. "There are just really good people here – it brings us back every time," said keyboardist and guitarist Cody Culver about playing in the Valley. The band first toured in S... Full story
Reprint of this story from the March 18, 1898 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History Serving the Community. And There Will Be Light In Grand Encampment Next Monday Night After April 6th there will be no more darkness in Grand Encampment. The Emerson Electric Light Co. will on the above date turn on their current and the town will have made one more stride in public Improvements which have already astonished the world and the doubting T...
Reprint of this story from the February 12, 1904 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. ARRESTED FOR GAMING Three Saratoga Citizens Bound Over to District Court. Warrants were sworn out Saturday for the arrest of Johnson Rose, C. S. Taylor and George Rosenfelt, on a charge of gambling. Mrs. Mary E. Garrish preferred the charges. The case came up Monday at 10 o’clock a.m. for examination, before Judge Johnson. Aff...
1 years ago Feb. 17, 1916 Mine Becoming Wreck The Union Pacific Coal company is taking the final steps in the abandonment of its No. 1 mine at Rock Springs, once the greatest and yet the deepest colliery in the west. The machinery is being removed from the surface plant and that portion which it is not advisable to move is being broken to pieces with dynamite that the metal which it contains may be utilized. The workings of old No. 1 mine, which was abandoned because it became too deep for its product to be hoisted at a...
Reprint of this story from the February 7, 1889 issue of The Platte Valley Lyre brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. Platte Timber - An Encircling Belt 130 Miles Long and 12 Miles Wide Tributary to the great valley of the upper Platte is a timber growth which in magnitude, excellence, variety, and ease of access, is unsurpassed in the Great West. This timber growth follows the course of the mountain chains encircling the valley of the Platte and form a b...
1 years ago Jan. 27, 1916 Killed calf The following this week was received from H. D. Blydenburgh, of the Jack Creek Land and Cattle Co., which contains some very unusual information: We have just had an experience that we do not believe has ever happened to any other stockman in this valley. A short time ago we received a letter from a former resident of the valley, asking if we were owners of cattle bearing a certain brand, that ranged on Jack creek, twenty six years ago. We answered him that we were, and that we still...
“We have snow!” Alyson Sneddon, chair of the Sierra Madre Winter Carnival said excitedly of this year’s festival. Because mother nature has provided early and sustained snows in the bottom of the Valley, sled racing and human saucer bowling are back for the 2016 festivities. “Come on down and play,” Sneddon said. Over $2,500 in prize money is up for grabs this year for events like the treasure hunt, the Sixth Street Sprint, sledding, saucer bowling, snow golf, the bread coo...
Reprint of this story from the January 19, 1900 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. J. G. Rankin Tells of The Greatness of The Wyoming Copper Belt The Denver Republican published the following in regard to Mr. Rankin’s recent visit to that city: James G. Rankin, an old pioneer and prospector, who drove the first stake in the great copper district of Grand Encampment, Wyo., is in the city having some samples of cop...
1 years ago Jan. 13, 1916 3,500 lb. steer Biggest Steer in the World Shipped from this Valley to Stock Show On Sunday evening the north bound train took out the biggest car of beef in one piece that perhaps has ever been seen. Hunter, Casteel & Hunter of this valley were the shippers and the big steer went out to the Denver Live Stock Show, where he will be on exhibition for a time. Experts measured this animal and estimated his weight between 3,400 and 3,500 pounds. The next largest steer was about 3,300. This big fellow...
Reprint of this story from the January 5, 1900 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. SMELTER, WATER AND LIGHT Companies Organized and Preparing for Business Wyoming Tribune. — Articles of three new incorporations that will operate in the state of Wyoming and assist in developing the resources of the state were filed in the secretary’s office yesterday. The Boston-Wyoming Smelter Power and Light Company organized with...
1 years ago Jan. 6, 1916 Youth’s Vanquished Joys We hear it asked, “What has become Of olden-time co’n pone; Of Mammy’s beaten biscuits with The flavor all their own; But would they taste as good again If they were served tonight? Would memory make up, perchance, For jaded appetite? That chicken Maryland we knew In golden bygone days Seems to have lost its flavor now. The pies that mother used to make So flaky and so light, Go well in verse–but would they tempt The jaded appetite? And thus in reminiscent vein, One might...
Amid the week after Christmas, piles of wrapping in bags, shiny paper and boxes in trash with the tags. Sad little scissors sit broken and bent, from clamshell packaging--they don’t make a dent. The lights are still sparkly, still light up the town, but pretty soon work begins in taking them down. Kids run around ‘cause they’re still out of schools, having a good old time while acting the fools. But the tots are forlorn from here to Hoboken, Christmas is gone and their new toy...
A person cannot be much more cowboy than Sam Platts, who with his band, sings old time Country and Western music, lives in a town called Pony and works full-time on a ranch. He will bring his country music to the Platte Valley Community Center Thursday from 7-10 p.m. Platts is no stranger to small town living, as he grew up in Saratoga and is returning this week to play at the Platte Valley Community Center for the Valley Service Organization's (VSO) New Year's Eve party. Plat...
