Mineral Terraces and the Big Horn River

And you wonder why we even bother going up to Yellowstone when we see this every day. That river comes in to Thermopolis from the south as the Wind River and leaves here at the north as the Big Horn River. Well, you can't blame the early explorers. After all, the Wind River was going south when they named it across the mountain range from here. The geology is VERY convoluted. I think that is the word the geologists use.

Population/elevation ratio--insider joke

March 30th 2006
Our present Wyoming governor Freudenthal repeated an insider joke a while back that goes "Never trust a man (politician?) who comes from a place that has a higher number for population than it has for elevation" or words to that effect. Since he is a native of Thermopolis that should imply he can be trusted whereas those from Cheyenne and 15 other towns can't be because there are only 16 towns in ... read more

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