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Interstate 80: Ride with the Legends through Rock Springs and Green River
You’re travel on I-80 isn’t complete without stops in Rock Springs and Green River. These small cities are located just a dozen miles apart and both have museums that provide rich detail about the...

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Updated: Aug 28, 2009

Wyoming's Fall day trips: Rawlins to Canyon State Park
Head northwest out of Rawlins on U.S. 287, watching for pronghorn leaping along the lightly traveled road. At Muddy Gap Junction, you might want to drive 12 miles east on state Highway 220 to see the...

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Updated: Aug 07, 2009

Interstate 80: Ride with the Legends through Rawlins
Rawlins, like Laramie to the east and Green River to the west, began as a Hell-on-Wheels town when the Union Pacific Railroad pushed through Wyoming in 1868-69. When state officials moved the prison...

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Updated: Feb 09, 2009

Wyomings 400 ton Train Transport
Towns grew up as fast as workers could lay westward to Laramie, Rawlins, Rock Springs and Evanston. Elsewhere in the state, smaller lines were also built. Nine historic Wyoming depots are now museums...

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Updated: Feb 20, 2009

Ghost Stories
Our little tour group walked somberly down the steps from the forlorn Death Row building at the Wyoming Frontier Prison in Rawlins. “This place is much worse than Alcatraz,” said a British man who had...

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Updated: Aug 06, 2009

Storming the Fort: Forgotten Forts
Most other Wyoming forts have long since disappeared back into the landscape. Fort Bonneville (also called Fort Nonsense), located near Daniel, was a fur trade fort in use from 1832-1839. Fort Reno on...

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Updated: May 26, 2009

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