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November 9, 2017
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How Sacagawea came to the Corps. According to Google Maps, I could have reached Jackson 20 minutes or half an hour sooner had I made a non-stop drive and stayed on I-80 West to Rock Springs before turning north onto …
November 9, 2017
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When I reported on the segment of the trip from Deadwood to Sundance, I mentioned my stop at the Southeast Wyoming Welcome Center where I’d had the odd coincidence of crossing paths with the family from Maryland for the second …
November 7, 2017
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A fuller portrait. There’s no question that Matthew Shepard was a bright young man. The child of an upper middle-class family, by the time he enrolled in college, he was a straight-A student who spoke three languages. Physically, though, he …