Howdy Kinley, not sure what happened there but your post didn't wrap like usual. Maybe this will help ? And welcome to FSW!
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My dad & grandparents lived in WY many years ago and worked for Union Pacific RR
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Hello everyone in FSW, In the 1940s and '50s my late dad, his late mom (my grandma) and his late stepdad lived around Cheyenne, Hanna (Carbon Co.), Laramie and Tie Siding (Albany Co.). My dad took correspondence courses from University Of Wyoming. He enlisted in the Army in 1947. He and his stepdad worked for Union Pacific Railroad, helping to build that railroad in WY. My dad's stepdad was a crew foreman for many years. He told me that in the snow blizzards they had to build snow tunnels and hold a flathead shovel against or in front of their face to breathe and maybe to see. Maybe later I will post their photos I have from this period. My dad may still have friends from WY who are still living (and in WY). I don't know for sure why but they eventually later moved back to Oklahoma (maybe back and forth, on and off) and then my dad later (1960s?) moved to Arkansas and Louisiana and back to Oklahoma. In the 1970s he met and married my mom, who is from Mississippi, and they had me. I was born in Oklahoma but we moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas, when I was 3 years old. So this is where I mainly grew up and lived most of my life. My parents and I took a roadtrip to SE WY in Summer, 1982 or '83, when I was about 9 years old. I remember little a bit about Cheyenne and/or Laramie. We stayed at an Econolodge or Travelodge. I remember more about Snowy Range Pass. In June or July snow on the highway/road was plowed up like 10, 12 or more feet high walls on both sides of the road. I think I still have a few Polaroid photo shots from this. I picked up a few chunks of rose quartz somewhere in SE WY and brought them back home in Arkansas and still have them. I'll bring them back when I come back eventually to WY. I'd like to write my dad's biography and come to WY and trace and visit the places where my dad and grandparents lived. I'd also like to do some flyfishing in a lake or river in WY. I'm weary of the heat and humidity of Southern Summertime. Every Summer I want to head North where it's cooler. I just found out about Free Keene and Free State Project last weekend and earlier this week. I read on Wikipedia that WY was a close runner-up when New Hampshire won the vote for FSP. Then I learned and am glad that FSW perpetuates or promotes a gun culture since I defend and support the Second Amendment, like to target practice/shoot and own guns. I'd rather hot be surrounded by "blue states" and Yankees anyway. I haven't seen an attraction or call for liberty activists per se to FSW like i have FSP in NH. I am a board director in a national civil, Constitutional and family rights organization, which is all about children needing both parents, court watching, equal parental rights, independent media, preserving families and marriage, decreasing and reforming government, judicial accountability, litigation, pro-family events and legislation, other politics and rights. Are there many storms and tornadoes in WY? My wife is a certified and trained storm spotter, but she really wants to chase them. Our school-age son liked our roadtrip to Colorado the end of last year. I think he too will like WY.Sincerely
