Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll

[louisev]

Update to "The Long Way Home"

http://louisev.livejournal.com/111767.html  "Chapter 34:  Affidavit"

[MadLori]

Oh, Louise!  You posted your update on wranglers!  Does this mean we only get one chapter today?   

Not that I should complain...we're spoiled as it is with your daily updates.

[MaineWriter]

Oh, Louise!  You posted your update on wranglers!  Does this mean we only get one chapter today?   

Not that I should complain...we're spoiled as it is with your daily updates.

We've had 3 chapters today....wow!

Leslie

[louisev]

*blink*

32, 33, 34.... I thought sure that was three.

[MadLori]

*blink*

32, 33, 34.... I thought sure that was three.

Oh, you're right, you're right.  I guess I was thinking of 32 and 33 as part of yesterday since they were posted  earlier than usual.

My bad.  *goes to hide in corner*

[louisev]

no, I only wrote one chapter yesterday, that is true.  But i wrote 3 Saturday, so I'm still averaging two chapters a day.  You greedy so and so!

[NavyVet]

Signal is where Ennis and Jack met Aguirre to stage the sheep herds and truck them up to the trailhead on Brokeback Mountain.   Ennis is originally from Sage, in the southwest corner of Wyoming, a rural town.

Riverton is not far from where the mythical Signal is, and Dubois is one of the towns they ate at between Signal and Brokeback.  My best guess of the description is that Brokeback Mountain is supposedly in the northwest Wind River Range, which is just southeast of the Tetons.  If you look through our messages or search for Dubois, which is where some of the scenes in "The Long Way Home" occur, Dubois is about 80 miles from Riverton northwest, and is on the verge of the Wind River range.

Ah, thanx for clearing that up for me.  I found the Tetons and Dubois, and I imagine that Sage must not be that far from Jackson, Wyoming.
Now I guess I oughta look up where the heck Laramie is and see how big a town that is.  LOL.  I get curious about the strangest details sometimes, but I learn something avery day.  Not bad for a brain-damaged Vet.  :-)

[louisev]

Laramie is a small city of 25,000 in the southeast corner of Wyoming, where the bulk of the population of Wyoming resides.  It is on the edge of a weather zone edging on Tornado Alley, which includes Cheyenne, the lightning capital of the USA, which also has very frequent hailstorms.  You may have noticed Ennis is frequently surprised not only by the heat but the frequency of thunderstorms and even a tornado during the course of the Saga... the weather is different where he comes from.

Laramie is also known as the most liberal and progressive town in Wyoming, as it is home to the University of Wyoming, where Ellery attended college.

[MaineWriter]

NavyVet, here is some Laramie info:

Laramie is the county seat of Albany County in the U.S. state of Wyoming. According to the 2000 U.S. census, the city population was 27,204. Laramie, located in southeast Wyoming, on the Laramie River, is northwest of Cheyenne, on the junction of Interstate 80 and US 287. It was first settled in 1868 with the coming of the Union Pacific Railroad, which crosses the Laramie River at Laramie. It is home to the University of Wyoming, Wyoming Technical Institute, and a branch of Laramie County Community College. Laramie Regional Airport serves Laramie. The ruins of Fort Sanders, an Army fort predating Laramie, lie just south of the city along route 287. Laramie is known as the Gem City of the Plains.

Leslie

[notBastet]

Anyone want to take a field trip to Laramie?