Wild Women, Wind and Wyoming Wisdom

From aliens meeting at Devil’s Tower to a few cowboys in the mountains falling in love, Wyoming has been depicted many times on the silver screen. Did you know part of the state stood in for an alien planet? Or how Dances with Wolves had the state on its dance card? Let’s explore how Hollywood sees the cowboy state.
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)

In 1943, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was flying from Oregon to Nebraska and, when it wasn’t heard from it was presumed lost. Search and rescue efforts commenced in several mountain ranges in Wyoming before a couple of cowboys found the shiny metal wreckage in the Big Horns. The mountain was renamed in honor of the wreckage’s salvage.
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)

A highwayman back in the wild west days of Wyoming, you can see some of Big Nose George’s desecrated remains in Rawlins, where he found his death at the end of a hangman’s noose for robbery. But George’s story doesn’t end there. What are those shoes made of, anyway? Find out why a governor of Wyoming wore them to his inauguration.
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)

In the years before the famed aviator’s famous disappearance, Amelia Earhart was in the process of purchasing and building her own vacation home in Kirwin, Wyoming— a beautiful ghost town that you need an ATV to reach from the main roads. Isolated and peaceful, what would her life have been like if she returned from a world record flight and settled down in Wyoming?
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)

The Oregon Trail video game had such a huge cultural impact, some forget that the sights seen in 8 bit original rendering are very real places. Independence Rock, Register Cliffs, Fort Laramie and Fort Bridger. Join us as well check out the real places behind the video game and hopefully learn a bit about how the pioneers made their way out west.
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)

Many, many towns claim William “Buffalo Bill” Cody as their own hometown boy. Golden was where he was finally laid to rest when he passed in 1917. There were rumors that he had asked to be buried in Wyoming and those requests were denied, so a small group of people claim to have taken it into their own hands to make sure the town bearing his name, Cody, WY, would be his final resting place.
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)

Considered by many to be the “First Western Novel,” the 1901 book by Owen Wister was written about a fictionalized version of the very real Johnson County Cattle War. The eponymous “virginian,” was a ranch hand and lawman trying to keep the peace at a ranch near Medicine Bow, WY. The town itself holds the TV show in high esteem, and a hotel was built just a few years after the novel was published with the name “The Virginian,” and was named the most luxurious hotel this side of Denver. Join us as we trace Wister’s touch on Wyoming history.
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)

I was a 5-year-old precocious kid growing up in Wyoming when I saw the episode of Garfield where the eponymous cat explained that “Wyoming was an old Italian word for “No State Here.” The video has gotta be around here somewhere. I remember in my mind there being a joke about Garfield seeing a bunch of dogs wearing UW Cowboys gear, but I don’t think that actually existed, it was me imagining a different ending.
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)

Follow us back in rodeo history time to find the real horse the emblem Wyoming is known for was originally based on. Get more familiar with the Bucking Horse and Rider logo, also known to locals as Steamboat. Why is it called Steamboat when the landlocked state of Wyoming likely doesn’t have a single steamboat? Find out here!
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)
MUSIC (music@cobbwebb.media)
Wesley Hogg
Kaleb Richey
Birgit Burke

It contained parts of Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota and it called Sheridan, Wyoming its Capital. Absaroka today lends it’s name to the fictional county that Longmire is the Sheriff of and a few mountain ranges that pre-date the state, but for two years in the 1940s, it tried to declare itself as its own state in rebellion against the New Deal and feeling as thought it would negatively affect the farmers and ranchers in the area. This story is so fascinating, come learn about the crazy Wyoming statehood conspiracy!
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)
MUSIC (music@cobbwebb.media)
Wesley Hogg
Kaleb Richey
Birgit Burke

Nellie Tayloe Ross, the First Woman Governor of Wyoming A 1920s icon and beloved by her constituents, Notorious NTR, as I’ve called her for years but no one else seems to pick up, was a badass Wyoming Woman. She was elected to her late husband’s position as Governor after his untimely death and went on to have her own successful career with an appointment to the United States Mint. Tales are told of her socialite status and tough Wyoming exterior and that’s why we’re focusing our 3D glasses on her in today’s glimpse into history.
HOST
Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media)
MUSIC (music@cobbwebb.media)
Wesley Hogg
Kaleb Richey
Birgit Burke