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Opening & Closing the Old Faithful Inn

Depending on where live in the country, you sometimes have to ready your home for the cold winter months.  Now image getting a 300-plus room…

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Yellowstone by Stagecoach

Today you can take a highway loop to the sites at Yellowstone National Park.  In the days before cars, that trip was made in a…

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An Inn by the Geysers

In the latter half of the 1800s, explorers and early visitors to what is today Yellowstone National Park were amazed by the area’s geysers –…

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Pioneer Days of Ten Sleep, Wyoming

If you are a resident of Wyoming, a four or five hour drive to get somewhere may not seem too bad.  In a state where…

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Fort Bridger

This fort serviced the Pony Express, the Oregon Trail, and was around so long it even slept travelers by car.  It’s a big history in…

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New Ownership of a Fort

You usually don’t think of a fort coming under new ownership.  But that’s what happened to this site that bears the name of a frontier…

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One of the Best Known Mountain Men of the 1800s

He was one of the best known mountain men of the early 19th century.  A man who was skilled in the fur trade and later…

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