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Our heroes come to the aid of a modern-day Robin Hood, Will Parker, who's taking refuge in the mountains of Wyoming. Hotheaded Will is thrown in jail for violating the local game laws. Busting out, Parker scurries to the hills, hotly pursued by the Mesquiteers and the law. Running against time, the threesome try to capture the corrupt politician Balsinger who's responsible for the recession and save Will from the gun-happy policemen and townspeople....
5) Unforgiven
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Bill Munny, a retired, once ruthless killer-turned-hog farmer, is flat broke. A widower with two young children to tend to, he feels he has no choice but to accept one last bounty hunter mission to find and kill two young gunslingers who brutalized and cut up the face of a local prostitute. Bill teams up with his old partner Ned and the cocky greenhorn, The Schofield Kid. The three men soon find out this bounty has many more obstacles to overcome...
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The last state in the Rocky Mountains to adopt Prohibition, Wyoming failed to stop the sale and manufacture of illegal liquor. The Legislature created a new law enforcement agency, but two State Directors were fired for graft and bootlegging. Adding to the states problems, many county officials did not enforce Prohibition laws. Prohibition significantly impacted state politics and elections.
12) Tom Horn retrial
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The 1903 trail of outlaw Tom Horn reenacted in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1993 by the University of Wyoming College of Law.
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"Wyoming has no separate juvenile justice system, as most states do, so a juvenile can accumulate a criminal record in adult courts for such minor offenses as smoking in school or skateboarding on a public sidewalk. The film recounts the stories of youth who have been in the system and shows instances of juveniles shackled, over-medicated, and held in treatment facilities over a hundred miles from their families for minor offenses that could have...
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State lands : issue of diversity: At statehood, Wyoming was given 4.2 million acres of trust lands. Of that total, 663,416 acres of those lands have since been sold, as permitted by law. In recent years, the management, leasing and sales of the lands have become a political football. MAIN STREET, WYOMING travels to the eastern slopes of the Big Horns to show the diversity of lands owned by the state of Wyoming. From Northern Wyoming College instructor...
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Documentary made for Wyoming public television about the famous author, Mary O'Hara, who wrote "My Friend Flicka" and her time on the Remount Ranch in southeastern Wyoming. She was born Mary O'Hara Alsop July 10, 1885. She died in 1980 at age 95. She was a screenwriter in California before moving to Wyoming and wrote music besides books. The videorecording Includes brief interviews with people who knew O'Hara or studied about her, and others who have...
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Across the USA, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Religious freedom, so valued in America, is not guaranteed to those who practice land-based religions. This film discusses the struggles of three indigenous communities to protect their sacred sites from rock climbers, tourists, strip-mining, development and New Age religious practitioners.
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A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
True grit: Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney.
Tombstone: Together, U.S....
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Third Party Politics: Throughout U.S. history, new political parties have challenged the status quo. This year is no exception in Wyoming's election ballot containing the names of four political parties: Libertarian, Natural Law, Republican and Democratic. Join guests Judy Raymond, state party chairman of the Natural Law party; and Dennis Brossman, chairman for the Libertarian party, and political scientists to learn more about "Third Party Politics",...





