Rick Allison gives his Olsmobile station wagon an encouraging pat during the chain up demolition derby competition at Central Wyoming Fairgrounds on Saturday afternoon when he was able to continue driving after his front right wheel broke off. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Orem Owl PJ Phillips slides into second base in the 5th inning as the Casper Rockies' secondbaseman Everth Cabrera catches a hopper for a tag. Phillips was called out on the play. (Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune)
"On Slate Hill, Headed for Pathfinder Dam, May 8, 1909. The "Reo" Chauffeuer [sic - Chauffeur], A. J. Mokler, E.Richard Shipp." (Mokler Collection, Casper College Western History Center)
Ken Daraie, President of the Natrona County School Board, talks about the school year schedule during the IBAP meeting on Thursday afternoon. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
University of Wyoming offensive lineman Tim Bond, left, and Sam Sterner wait for the snap during spring drills in March at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie. The unit, with just two returning starters, will be one of the focuses of tonight's scrimmage, according to head coach Joe Glenn. File, Star-Tribune.
Senate President John Hines glances out the window as the early morning sun shadows his face Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. While the senate is in session, Hines arrives at the Capitol around 7 a.m. in the morning and normally leaves after 7 p.m. (AP Photo/Gillette News Record, Sarah Voegele)
The E. H. Grinder ranch, shown here in 1908, was flooded about three years later following the completion of the Buffalo Bill Dam. It was part of the small ranching community of Marquette, built near the confluence of the South Fork and North Fork of the Shoshone River. (Photo courtesy of Shoshone Irrigation)
Carole Anne Hopkins, of Riverton, pickets with other Tea Party protesters along Center Street Wednesday afternoon. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
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.)
Bud Baxter, of Baxter Brothers Drywall, applies stucco to the walls of the old Tripeny Motors building in the Old Yellowstone District on Monday afternoon in Casper. The city council tonight will consider changes to code in the Old Yellowstone District. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
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.
Rosemary Burwell, of Casper, holds an American flag Wednesday afternoon in the front row of the Tea Party protest in front of the Cheney Federal Building. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
Glenrock's Drew Nielsen, center, runs in the 200-meter dash trials during the 2009 Wyoming State High School Track and Field Championships on Thursday at Kelly Walsh High School. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
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