Wyoming Archives - Just Go Places Culinary and Cultural Travel Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:02:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Vore Buffalo Jump Into An Archeological Dig https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/vore-buffalo-jump-into-an-archeological-dig/ Wed, 18 Mar 2015 07:00:41 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=7713 In the 1970’s the engineers looking to extend interstate 90 West found a giant sinkhole on the Vore family lands.  When they surveyed the sinkhole in order to fill it up with concrete, they found that it was a giant pit of bison remains.  Needless to say, the engineers moved the interstate a little bit...

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]]> Remembering Racism and War Hysteria At Heart Mountain Japanese Internment Camp https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/heart-mountain-japanese-internment-camp/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/heart-mountain-japanese-internment-camp/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:00:17 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=7722 Turning off the highway, we drove up and down an isolated road trying to find the Heart Mountain Interpretative Center.  The land was flat and unremarkable. The sun beat down on the parched earth.  It really felt like the middle of nowhere. I can imagine that was exactly how the Japanese-Americans who arrived at the...

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/heart-mountain-japanese-internment-camp/feed/ 0 Wild West Style Justice at the Wyoming Frontier Prison https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/wild-west-style-justice-at-the-wyoming-frontier-prison/ Fri, 06 Feb 2015 07:00:35 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=7268 My family and I are standing outside a gas chamber on death row at Wyoming Frontier Prison. The whole thing is made of stainless steel (the better to hose it clean with) and the original chair with its leather restraints sits isolated in the middle. When the guide asks if anyone would like to sit...

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]]> Seven Strange Facts About Devils Tower https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/facts-about-devils-tower/ Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:00:51 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=7128 Devils Tower is a national monument in Wyoming which has to be seen to be believed.  Seriously. It is a strange geological formation that shoots straight up into the sky 1200 feet from the ground. Theodore Roosevelt thought it was pretty impressive, too, and named it the first national monument in the USA in 1906....

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