Wyoming

5 places with something worth saying about them.

• Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project The wind here is so strong that the turbines have to be raised at night.
• Fort Halleck (Wyoming) When this Wyoming fort was built, it stood in the Territory of Idaho.
• Laramie Plains Museum At ninety, the banker who built Laramie's grandest house married a seventy-eight-year-old widow, and the marriage lasted a few months.
• Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest The name Medicine Bow comes from tribes who came here for a wood that made excellent bows, and for rituals meant to cure disease.
• Piedmont, Wyoming A Wyoming railroad camp ended up named after a region of northern Italy, because of who the founders had married.