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Lockhart, Caroline biography Essay 10/12/2011
Wister, Owen Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Roripaugh, Robert, Wyoming Poet Laureate 1995-2002 Essay 11/20/2011
Hyart Theatre Encyclopedia 12/15/2011

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Encyclopedia | Hyart Theatre
The Hyart Theatre in Lovell, Wyo., opened in 1951. The owner, Hyrum “Hy” Bischoff, used creative designs that were in fashion at the time. He included a curved screen for CinemaScope movies and...
Essay | Robert Roripaugh, Wyoming Poet Laureate 1995-2002
The clear, quiet poetry and fiction of Robert Roripaugh, poet laureate of Wyoming from 1995 through 2002, has long been informed by his youth on his family’s ranch near Lander. In the early 1950s,...
Encyclopedia | Owen Wister: Inventor of the Good-guy Cowboy
Owen Wister’s enormously popular novel, The Virginian, published in 1902, was set in Wyoming and established the cowboy in American literature as the noble, competent, humorous, laconic hero still...
Essay | The Old West’s Female Champion: Caroline Lockhart and Wyoming’s Cowboy Heritage
Caroline Lockhart wrote a handful of novels about Wyoming in the early 20th century. They made her famous and rich, and they hold up well today. At the same time, she was a new kind of activist, a...