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1902) Browns Park Treks
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For over three decades, the Sweetwater County Historical Society hosted summertime treks to historic sites around the county, often following emigrant trails, stagecoach roads and other historic routes. From the mid 1960s to the late 1980s, Henry F. Chadey, first director of the Sweetwater County Historical Museum, led many of these treks. Henry carefully researched, planned and coordinated these events, sometimes attended by as many as 300 participants....
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"On 10 December 1869, the governor of Wyoming Territory signed the first full woman suffrage bill in the history of the United States. Suffragists in the neighboring territories of Montana and Dakota believed their prospects were similarly bright. Over the next twenty years, however, organizers' efforts to secure votes for women met only limited success. While suffragists hoped the territories' respective bids for statehood in 1889 and 1890 would...
1904) Tell me when it hurts
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"Archer Loh, Ivy League grad and Olympic rider, has been carefully groomed to be a government assassin but, at the moment of decision, she instead chooses law school, her college sweetheart, and a quiet life in Connecticut, leaving her violent apprenticeship behind as her own little secret. When her only child is murdered and the killer goes free on a technicality, Archer ditches family, career, friends and horses to find justice. Brushing up on her...
1905) Divided we fall
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"In this novel is the hope that the myth of freedom of the individual still exists in the upper Rocky Mountains and Great Plains and that the citizens of these regions are willing to forcefully resist the tyranny of government. It remains to be seen if this myth still exists and if this scenario is an alternative to the social welfare police state."--foreword.
"What will the American people do when tyranny and political correctness become the law...
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"Acclaimed Islamic scholar, Ingrid Mattson now updates her authoritative and comprehensive introduction through the addition of expanded sections on the Qur'an in art and architecture, in the life cycle of Muslims, and in Islamic ethics and law. Through a close examination of the doctrines in the Qur'an, Mattson reveals their significance to individual Muslims and the societies in which they live. Combining scholarly precision with an engaging style,...