Wyoming

Callahan liked Penney’s honesty and work ethic. Penney had dreamed of operating his own business of chain stores. He was sent to wyoming to work with Johnson in another Golden rule store. That same year, he married Berta Alva Hess. Then Johnson and Callahan asked Penney to join them in opening a new Golden Rule store. Penney then joined the partnership and moved to Kemmerer Wyoming, with his wife to start the new business. Penney opened the new store on April 14, 1907 and lived in a one room…

On October 6, 1998 two men took Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, about a mile outside of Laramie, Wyoming, after being lured away from a bar. These men took him out to a split-rail fence, bust his skull open with a .375 Magnum, then left him for dead. He was found later the next day by two bikers, only eighteen hours after the being brutally assaulted just because of his sexuality. When the bikers first saw Matthew tied to the fence, they thought that he was a scarecrow, but sooner…

“60.6% [out of] 1,402 hate crimes . . . based on sexual orientation [are] classified as anti-gay (male) bias” (Latest Hate Crime Statistics Report Released). Crimes against homosexuals have been reported nationwide, but a hate crime in Laramie, Wyoming changed the gay community. On October 12, 1998, twenty-one-year old Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and murdered by two young Laramie citizens because of Shepard’s sexual orientation. In The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years…

As the study in Wyoming made clear, where there are guns, the suicide rates will be higher. In order to directly reduce the rates, guns must be taken away. Although most people might have them as protection, it can be a bad thing because this exposure could lead to people…

constantly for the last year. This last beating killed him. One of his good friends Rafe Caradec was on the ship when he was dying. He had Rafe to promise him to keep his ranch on his land in Wyoming safe and take care of his wife, Ann Rodney. Rafe promised him. Rafe went and traveled to his ranch in Wyoming. He went into the town’s saloon near his land and made a toast to Charles Rodney. Many of the people in the saloon cheered. But, one man thought he was clever and just smirked. Rafe…

south down the Platte River in high spirits after his partners report of success but those feelings quickly retreated to feelings of hopelessness when he had to abandon the wagons and almost all the horses, in the brutal winter that had commandeered Wyoming. After traversing through the perilous yet vibrant snowy woods the men found themselves in jeopardy; exhausted and near death in fact “They would have died of starvation if they had not been welcomed by Pawnee tribesmen near the fork of the…

Tragedy of the Commons in the American West: The Cattle Boom Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons is a fundamental principle in the study of environmental science. Hardin’s classic example is the herdsman who desires to selfishly maximize their economic gain at the expense of their community’s shared pasture. In his example, the commons are a shared resource or the open range. Each herdsman is located in a society that prioritizes constant economic gain, while there are limited resources.…

is 3. This creates a situation in which Wyoming has 3 votes, while California has 55. (Doc 4) This is overall an unfair representation of the population and their beliefs. It gives a state with 563,000 people 3 electoral votes, and a state with 37 million people only 55. That means that Wyoming has 187,875 population per electoral vote, while California has 677,345 population per electoral vote. (Doc 2) This essentially means that the people's vote in Wyoming has more sway in the election than…

Researchers from the University of Wyoming College of Criminal Justice, Associate Professors Scott Culhane John Boman, and Psychology Department Associate Professor Kimberly Schweitzer published their 2016 study in the journal Police Quarterly regarding the role body worn cameras play in public perceptions of whether police use of force is justifiable. Professor Culhane completed his post-graduate degree at the University of Texas El Paso in Legal Psychology from the University of Texas at El…

The Richins’ Voyage to Utah When William was in his 60th year he had the desire to emigrate to Utah. He and his wife Charlotte made their plans and sailed from Liverpool, England on April 30, 1866 with their daughter Miriam and her son Arthur and their grandson Lorenzo. Before leaving William penned this poem: My friends the time is growing nigh, When I, to you, must say good-bye ‘twill be my last farewell; I soon shall join a noble band, And journey from my native land, Far in the west to…