Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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1 Years Ago How to Make Money at Home Start a saloon in your own house. Be the only customer (you’ll have no license to pay). Go to your wife and give her two dollars to buy a gallon of whisky, and remember that there are sixty-nine drinks in a gallon. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife, and by the time the first gallon is gone she will have eight dollars to put in the bank and two dollars to start business again. Should you live ten years and continue to buy booze from her, and then die with snakes in your boots, s...
Last Saturday 38 people went for a historical adventure on Pick Ranch. Led by local historians Ken Olson, Dick Perue, Ken Swanson and Chilly Rollison the group followed the Platte River and were treated to stories about Sheep Rock, the original location of Pick Bridge and its more recent incarnations, Bennett's Ferry crossing, the Cowan and Haymaker houses, the river crossing at the Shultz/Ward/Sanger place, the Frazier place, the Evans/Bryan trail, Pick Springs and tipi...
Reprint of this story from the August 18, 1905 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. Doane-Rambler Will Build Big Concentrator and Water Power Contracts Being Made to Raise Battle Lake by Large Dam The most important development enterprise in the district outside of the Penn-Wyoming operations is about to be started by the Battle Lake Tunnel Site Mining Co., owners of the Doane-Rambler mine. For the purpose of i...
On a recent trip to Laramie for supplies for his North Park, Colo. ranch Michael Martin Murphy noticed "Cowboy Culture" signs around town and he thought to himself, "Man, I moved to the right place." Murphey will be performing a benefit concert for the Battle Pass Scenic Byway Aug. 28 at the Platte Valley Community Center. The show will be a storytelling oriented, solo acoustic performance featuring a retrospective of Murphey's songwriting over the years. Murphey said the...
Joel Johnson, Florida based watercolor painter, remembers his roots growing up in Sinclair and will be exhibiting 30 paintings based on those memories at the Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center in Casper, Wyo. Johnson recalls seeing Spanish colonial architecture in Sinclair, skiing in Ryan Park and his father's role maintaining the skating rink. The paintings consist of architectural pieces based on the Spanish influences he saw in his hometown, according to Johnson,...
1 years ago August 5, 1915 Preparing for County Fair In a recent issue of the Wyoming Tribune appeared the following boost for the Carbon County Fair: “Solidly backed by every business interest in the county and with the county government providing a fund that guarantees one of the most successful ventures of its kind ever promoted in the state, the Carbon County Fair will be open on the sixth day of September at Saratoga. A group of hard working enthusiasts among whom are W.E. Tilton, D.S. Richmond, George Broadhurst, C...
Reprint of this story from the August 5, 1904 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. BIG FIRE AT RIVERSIDE Post Office and Miss Peebles Store Consumed -- Exson Badly Burned An explosion of gasoline in the building occupied by the Riverside post office early Saturday morning caused the biggest conflagration in the history of that place and frightfully burned Postmaster A. B. Exson. The cause of the explosion is a m...
Rudefeha, Wyo., June 9, 1903.—(Special Correspondence) Slowly, but surely, the mighty cables pull the loaded buckets up the mountain, while the empty ones keep coming down, only to be filled in their turn and sent on their journey again. Notwithstanding the importance of the event, there was no great celebration at Rudefeha. There were no fireworks, no shooting of guns. There was no brass band to make memorable the occasion with the blowing of horns and the beating of drums. There was no great gathering of the inhabitants t...
The Saratoga Elementary School Carnival May 21 boasted four bouncy houses and loads of fun events....
Carbon County School District No. 2 put on the play “Cheaper by the Dozen” May 26 at the Platte Valley Community Center...
Weather may have dampened the attendance, but not the spirits of those who attended the Second annual CJ Box Trivia Event. Three teams, one of which was formed of people who traveled from Jackson, Wyo., and Scottsbluff, Neb., attended the event sponsored by the Saratoga Museum May 23. Cash prizes provided by the Carbon County Visitors' Council were donated back to the museum by the winners. First place went to The Sage Chickens, consisting of Kim and Vince Hytrek, Barb Surber...
Composer Peter George is returning to his first love after 35 years away from the piano. George has always loved the piano, which he considers to be a "virtual orchestra", but had to set his passion aside while pursuing a successful career as a front-of-house sound engineer. Finally, according to George, it was time to get back on the bench. "Every moment it was eating at me to get back to the piano," George said of the decision to pursue his interest in using the piano to go...
In the April 1 edition of the Saratoga Sun, I contributed a piece on "Beaching Disease". It was the only time in the six years I have worked here that we have actually put out a paper with an April 1 date. Some people missed the other clues that this was an April Fool's joke. The clues started with the fact that my name was on the byline. I don't write news stories (once I did several years ago because we were spread thin on meetings), I am the graphic artist and part-time...
"It's weird because I've never held a job this long," jokes Margaret Weber when asked how it feels to mark her seventh year as owner operator of the Bear Trap Cafe and Bar. Under Weber's ownership, the Bear Trap will be celebrating its "copper anniversary" from 7-9 p.m. on Friday with musical guest Screen Door Porch. Weber estimates that over the course of seven years, she has re-invested around $200,000 in improvements and repairs back into the restaurant and bar. "I could ac...
I bumped into C.J. Box the other day as he was passing through town on his way to begin his latest book tour for his 15th Joe Pickett novel titled, "Endangered". Of course, I had to take the opportunity to ask him a few questions about himself, Joe Pickett and the Valley that helped to inspire both. The following conversation took place between this cub reporter and former Saratoga Sun reporter C.J. Box as the current New York Times best-selling author was heading out to...
Front-woman Alysia Kraft recalls the name of her band, Patti Fiasco coming from a take on a nickname of sorts she got whenever she would get in trouble as a kid. "My mom's younger sister's name was Patti and when (mom) would yell at me for getting in trouble she would slip up and yell, 'Patti!'," Kraft said. According to the band's website pattifiasco.net, Kraft and company got together after a 2008 open-mic night when they decided they wanted to write and play music full...
Recently I went south to Houston to see family and friends. This time I flew out of a regional airport that turned out to be both closer and cheaper than our nearest big city hubs. The security is much less stressful to get through at a regional airport and this particular regional airport actually lands the big jets and not so much with the little sickness-inducing prop hoppers. It is also neat to walk up a portable ramp to board your 737—it seems to harken back to an e...
The most controversial Oscar nominee this year isn’t American Sniper. Nor is it Selma, the Oscar-snubbed Martin Luther King docudrama. If you were like me, you probably hadn’t even heard about the film. Chances are you likely will following this year’s Academy Awards. The documentary, nominated for an award in the Best Documentary category is titled, “CitizenFour”. CitizenFour was the codename used by Edward Snowden when he reached out to award- winning documenta...