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Attack of the Killer…Shrews?
With it being the Halloween season, it seems appropriate to take note of a gruesome creature of movie land that may have haunted our dreams, or is kitschy enough to have made us roll our eyes in disbelief. You’ve heard … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, events, Fantasy, Holidays, Horror, Motion picture actors and actresses, motion picture history, Pop Culture, popular culture, science fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Entertainment industry, film, film history, Halloween, Holidays, movie, movie history, movie posters, movies, popular culture, science fiction movie, The Killer Shrews
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Butch Cassidy and Beyond: Inside Wyoming’s Historic Territorial Prison
As buildings sprung up in Laramie, the former “Hell on Wheels” town, a new imposing stone structure shadowed the landscape. With construction starting in 1872, the Territorial Prison opened its doors to inmates in January 1873, while construction still continued. … Continue reading
Posted in architectural history, Current events, events, exhibits, found in the archive, Laramie 150th Anniversary, Livestock industry, Local history, Outlaws--West (U.S.), Uncategorized, University of Wyoming history, Western history, Wyoming history
Tagged Butch Cassidy, Federal Prisons, Historic Preservation, Prison Life, University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming history, Wyoming history
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Crow Tribal Photographs, Then and Now
Dan Hayward and Audrey Plenty Hoops delivered two complementary multi-media talks about the Crow, or Aps’aalooke, Indian Nation of southern Montana on April 18, 2012. Hayward’s presentation, titled Crow Tribal Photographs, Then & Now, introduced his large photographic project of … Continue reading