A note from Erin: This piece was written by my good friend and occasional partner in crime Hilda Thomas. It was originally published in the Dubois (pronounced dew-boyz) Frontier, and I ran across it again in some old files. I couldn’t help but share the laugh… On August 28, 2010, in the dwindling dog days of…
Category: Wyoming
The Bar X, or I’m not Man Enough to Sleep with John Wayne
In the early days of our courtship, Joel and I took a road trip. We had been dating for about a year (and by dating I mean that I was in the Peace Corps in Outer Mongolia and he was in grad school in Chicago). I came home for a bit in the summer and…
Making the Kessel Run, or Driving from Texas to Montana
Surviving road trips from Texas to Montana…
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Bayeux Tapestry, and How 850 Years Isn’t All That Long
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Bayeux Tapestry, and How 850 Years Isn’t All That Long
Big Wheel Keep on Turnin’, or Climbing to the Bighorn Medicine Wheel
Dad and I have the tradition that if I’m in Montana during the summer, we take a day trip down to see the Bighorn Medicine Wheel. It’s an hour from Bridger to Lovell going south on US 310, then another hour to get to the parking lot on Medicine Mountain itself. As the wheel can…
Strayhounds 