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A Further Perspective
Wyoming Bound
Memorial Day weekend in the Equality State.
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Unfortunately, my wife and I were leaving Wyoming too early and would miss the summertime rodeo in Cody. However, we also missed the summer traffic jams — RVs, mini-vans, touring buses — which clog the two-lane roads into Yellowstone and the Tetons.
The highlights of the trip were meeting the girls at the ranch and having dinner with our daughter and her colleagues who work with them as counselors and mentors. For these youngsters faith, hope, love and self-respect are hard-won prizes to be gained only with struggle, fortitude and encouragement from their families and counselors. As the Hebrew saying goes, “He who saves a life saves the world entire.” Such was the great love my wife and I found in Wyoming this Memorial Day 2010.
About the Author
G. Tracy Mehan, III served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the administrations of both Presidents Bush. He is a consultant in Arlington, Virginia, and an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law.
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Bill| 6.4.10 @ 9:53AM
Don't forget that Wyoming appears to be the National Pronghorn Antelope Refuge as well! There are more pronghorns to the square foot in Wyoming than anywhere else in the USA.
Alan Brooks| 6.4.10 @ 11:33PM
Don't forget Casper.
A great energy city-- or town.
I don't know when a town becomes big enough to be called a city.
mike| 6.4.10 @ 11:05AM
You might like the series of novels by CJ Box (if you haven't already read them). His main character is a Wyoming state wildlife officer who gets into all sorts of situations there.
Bill Croke| 6.4.10 @ 11:39AM
A great piece about a place very dear to my heart, Obama publicist Big Al notwithstanding. I used to work in security at the BBHC and hike in Clarks Fork Canyon. It was all there. Well done.
Connie Patterson| 6.4.10 @ 11:58AM
The following quote accurately describes MOST of Wyoming...not just the part visited by the author:
"This part of Wyoming is not at all gentrified by Hollywood stars or Dotcom moguls. It is working ranch and farm country, amidst spectacular, challenging landscapes, both basin and range. People there know each other well, and many are kinsmen with deep roots in the neighborhood. Protestant, Catholic and Mormon churches are thick on the ground in the few towns in the area."
Mary| 6.4.10 @ 3:08PM
In a land of breathtakingly beautiful scenery, it's moving to note that it was the people that you encountered that told the story of your trip to Wyoming. How encouraging it is to hear about your daughter and Father Joseph, who left their homes and families to care for others. And regarding Bill's comment, we also had quite a few pronghorn in rural Colorado, too!
Walden| 6.4.10 @ 3:14PM
Obama would be wise to visit places such as Wyoming. It is places like Wyoming where America "happens." Not Chicago, not DC, not San Francisco. His idea of America is so vastly distorted. If he only knew of the tens of millions of us who like our good old Country just as it is, are proud of it's heritage. You know, people who take personal responsibility, don't look to others (or the govt) for a handout, go to church, work hard, toil on the land. Oh, but I digress.
Ann| 6.4.10 @ 6:09PM
This piece brought tears to my eyes. Al;though I love Maine, where I live, its' gotten so hard to be a Catholic here I wish I'd moved to WY 25 years ago when I had an opportunity.
Marcus Boyd | 6.4.10 @ 6:40PM
I worked in Wyoming for a few years on Pipeline projects for CONOCO. The country folks are Gold. I am retired now and may move to Cheyenne some day.
Eddie| 6.4.10 @ 7:53PM
Wyoming and a couple other states are on my Bucket List to visit. My cousin flies out there 2 or 3 times a year and if there ever was a true God's Country, Wyoming is it and those Tetons reach to touch His face. Thanks for the nice article. Makes this Tennessee boy want to roam!
Walden| 6.4.10 @ 9:04PM
Eddie-
I'm a Tennessee boy myself, and believe me, Wyoming will do your heart good!
ReNae| 6.5.10 @ 2:44AM
Your column makes me smile. Wyoming has been my home for 45 years and I love it. Thanks for the tribute and for you and your daughters. This really is one of the best places on Earth.
Jeff Jacques | 6.5.10 @ 4:42PM
Thank you so much for this very good portrait of what Wyoming is all about. I grew up in Powell, WY and I’m proud of what the State, the people and what the great outdoors taught me there. Most of the people from Wyoming are tough, independent and conservative people. It’s what America use to be. I’ll be passing this along to all the great people I know in Wyoming. Thank you again for the awesome write-up on my home State.
Angie| 6.5.10 @ 8:09PM
Awesome writeup of Big Wonderful Wyoming!
I grew up aboout 60 miles from Cody and have family there still. I'm sorry you had to miss the rodeo in Cody but that makes a good excuse to visit your daughter again soon :)
I have a great fondness for the Wyoming bucking bronc license plates; to me it's symbolic of the wild land that's hard to tame.
Wyoming is still about individual responsibility in the pursuit of your own happiness. Most people think of it as a hick state but it was ahead of the pack in women's rights. Wyoming allowed women the vote even before it became a state - about 50 years before any other state passed "suffrage". Wyoming also recognized a woman's right to own property and seated them on juries.
Cliffdweller| 6.6.10 @ 7:36PM
Ah, life in the wide open spaces. "For those who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they would like" - A. Lincoln
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