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Meryl:
That's funny, Chrissi, good find!  ;D

I bought the Moon travel guide to Alberta (must have been attracted by the name) and have found it very helpful.  8)

Front-Ranger:
Any last-minute travel tips from your Wyoming book, Chrissi? See you soon!!

Penthesilea:
No travel tips, but something to share  :).

Did you know  ;):


* The world's largets piece of jade was found near Lander in the 1940s: a 3,366-pound nephrite jade boulder.
* The first football game in the nation played under artificial lights was in Midwest, WY in 1925
* Wyoming was not only the first stat to give women voting rights, but WY also had the world's first female juror (in Laramie, 1870)
* When walking in brushy bear country with low visibility you should make yourself hearable, i.e. making noise. The author of the Wyoming Handbook prefers yelling "Hey bear!" - but he would not recommend doing so while walking the paved path around Old Faithful Geyser; you might get carried off in a straighjacket

Two quotes. The first one is prefixed to the Wyoming Handbook:

God bless Wyoming and keep it wild
- last entry in the diary of a girl who died in the Tetons

Gotta go to the dentist now. Will add the second quote later.

Penthesilea:
Back from the dentist.
So here's another quote I found in said book. It's from Buffulo Bill Cody. It was spoken in defense of Wyoming, when a friend complained of the wind:

"You know where those winds come from? Well, this country up here is so close to paradise you can feel the breezes from heaven. That wind comes from the angels' wings. When they flap their wings the wind comes right down this valley."

I'll crosspost this on the Jack and the wind thread  :D.

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