For more than half a century, Star Valley dairy farmers brought their milk to the Star Valley Cheese factory in Thayne for processing. The treasured landmark factory closed in November 2005, but there are plans to reopen it. Photo by Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune.
Map of proposed annexation to the City of Casper. Graphics by Casper Star-Tribune, source City of Casper.
This book cover released by Simon & Schuster shows the cover of "Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite,Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves", by Crystal Renn.(AP Photo/Simon & Schuster)
This photo released by PMK shows model Crystal Renn in her early career.(AP Photo/ PMK,Justin Macala)
Damian Rushton, 13, left, and John Robinson, 13, get acquainted with their new school-issued laptops on Thursday during James Herbst's social studies class at Frontier Middle School. The Natrona County School District this year has unblocked access to social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace as well as the video site, YouTube. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Rock Springs quarterback Wesley Padilla looks for an opening in the Kelly Walsh defense during the first quarter of their game in Casper on Friday night. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Wyoming guard Sean Ogirri, right, shoots a three point basket over UCLA guard Jrue Holiday during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
UW's Joseph Harris is taken down by Utah's Steve Tate during their game on Oct. 14, 2006, in Laramie. Star-Tribune file photo.
University of Wyoming's Ike Okoye sinks the ball during the second half of Saturday's game against TCU in Laramie. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
Wyoming's Brandon Ewing, middle, shoots between UCLA's James Keefe, left, and Jerime Anderson during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
This early photograph shows President Theodore Roosevelt delivering a whistlestop speech in Casper at the Chicago and North Western Railroad Station. Photo courtesy of the Frances Seely Webb Collection, Casper College Western History Center.
When the Cheyenne Boosters visited Casper, the Natrona County Tribune noted this week in 1909, "Casper greeted the boosters with a street full of people waiting to get a glad hand to the folks from the south. … The Casper band—the crack musical organization of the state, and incidentally engaged to play in Cheyenne during Frontier—was on hand with a program of most enjoyable music." Pictured: Casper Band playing at Cheyenne Frontier Days, 1909. (Chuck Morrison Collection, Casper College Western History Center.)
The Petroleum Building at Center and Second streets dwarfs the Saddle Rock Cafe, lower left, pictured in 1954. On June 8, 1959, a dispute between picketing restaurant workers and the cafe's owner led to disturbance and assault charges. See story. (Photo by Ken Ball. Casper Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, Casper College Western History Center.)
Privatized: "Casper's old Washington School, known as Central School when the first part of it was built in 1890, may crumble under the bulldozer of progress, if the Casper-Midwest school board decides to … dispose of the highly valuable property to private interests." Pictured: Washington School at First and Durbin, circa 1962. It was sold that year to Wyoming National Bank and is now the site of Wells Fargo. (Frances Seely Webb Collection, Casper College Western History Center.)
Photo by Jerre Jones, courtesy Casper Journal Collection, Casper College Western History Center This February 1983 photo shows District Attorney Scott Evans briefing the press about 16-year-old Merri Kae Richards, whose body was found in a dumpster in Casper. Evans announced that a suspect had been arrested in the murder a week after the crime.
Photo courtesy the Jack E. Atzinger Collection, Casper College Western History Center This studio portrait shows Boney Earnest with his wife Nattie, taken in celebration of their 50th anniversary. Earnest died two years later and the photo was published in the Oct. 20, 1933, Casper Tribune-Herald to commemorate his passing.
"W. S. Kimball, Druggist." (No date). (Frances Seely Webb Collection, Casper College Western History Center)
This undated photo shows the old railroad depot at Waltman. Reported in the Sept. 30, 1908, Natrona County Tribune, the town of Mokoma was renamed Waltman. Photo by Chuck Morrison, courtesy Chuck Morrison Collection, Casper College Western History Center.
Wyoming wide receiver Greg Bolling is tackled by Air Force's defense during Saturday's game in Laramie. Photo by TIM KUPSICK, Star-Tribune.
This undated photo shows the grave marker for George W. Pike, placed in Douglas. The gravestone was ordered by Pike's friend Lee Moore in 1908. Photo courtesy the David Collection, Casper College Western History Center.
This detail from an early photo shows the courthouse (left) and the jailhouse (right) as they were in 1908, when Adia Irwin and Frank Seese escaped through a hole broken out of the north wall of the jailhouse. Photo courtesy Frances Seely Webb Collection, Casper College Western History Center.
CAPTURED — The Jan. 30, 1958, edition of the Casper Tribune-Herald declared: "Multiple Killer Confesses: Charles Starkweather, 19, of Lincoln, Nebraska, slouches in Converse County jail in Douglas after his gun-point capture Wednesday [Jan. 29]. … (H)e dyed his shabby red hair with black shoe polish to mislead his armed pursuers." Execution by electric chair took place June 25, 1959. (Photo by Carl Ketchum. Chuck Morrison Collection, Casper College Western History Center.)
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