Rock Springs, Wyoming ....
1. Where Butch Cassidy got his nickname ... he worked in a butcher shop here
2. Home of the world's largest pronghorn antelope herd and the USA's largest trona deposit (trona is a mineral mined as an additive for glass, fertilizer, laundry soap, etc.)
3. The location of the Chinese Massacre in the late 1800's, where Chinese immigrants working to build the UP Railroad were chased out of town and their villages burned (whether any were actually killed is debated)
4. An infamous "60 Minutes" report in the 1970's about the crime rate during a boom we had. Gained us our lovely nicknames of "Sin City" and "Murder of the Month Club". Defending a sheriff accused of murdering an undercover narcotics agent during this time was the start of the now nationally famous "cowboy lawyer" Gerry Spence's career.
Not particulary flattering things ... but it's all we've got. 
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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