Category Archives: Authors and literature

The Old-Time Saloon – Just History, for the Season

Posted on December 23, 2018 by

It’s the holiday season and you may be tempted to tipple a few beverages of the alcoholic variety. It seems like a good opportunity to provide you with a drinking story. Something you can relate to your friends as you … Continue reading →

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The Wyoming Art of Carrie Arnold

Posted on December 9, 2018 by

Carrie Arnold (1944-1998) was a Denver business woman with an active interest in Western history, which she expressed in drawings. She became a pen and ink illustrator for a number of Western books. She was commissioned by her friend Bill … Continue reading →

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George Teeple Eggleston and the America First Movement

Posted on December 6, 2018 by

Before the United States entered World War II, there was a popular movement to keep the U.S. out of the fray. The controversial America First Committee (AFC), founded in September 1940, was the foremost U.S. non-intervention pressure group against American … Continue reading →

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Stan Lee’s Legacy Lives on at the American Heritage Center

Posted on November 14, 2018 by

Stan Lee’s legacy lives on at the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC). Stan Lee – comics industry pioneer, collection donor, and AHC benefactor – died November 12, 2018, at age 95, in his home city of Los Angeles. … Continue reading →

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Celebrating 200th anniversary of Frankenstein

Posted on October 22, 2018 by

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In the novel, Shelley (1797-1851) tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who builds a sapient creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous … Continue reading →

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Psycho: A Novel by Robert Bloch

Posted on September 24, 2018 by

Robert Bloch was an author of pulp science fiction and crime stories. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft, he grew up reading Weird Tales magazine and after high school began writing science fiction stories for the magazine himself. Bloch moved away … Continue reading →

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A Wyoming Frost

Posted on September 17, 2018 by

Verna Elizabeth Grubbs, better known to her poetic peers as Ann Winslow, was a driving force in the shaping of young poets during the early-to-mid 1900s. The Ann Winslow collection evidences her immersion in the world of the golden age … Continue reading →

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