This is Dondi and she’s riding little Gail’s tricycle around Bud and Mickey’s backyard in Casper Wyoming. Dondi likes that little Gail—she isn’t much, but with a playmate several years younger, Dondi can practice all her nurturing skills. The two girls play and whisper and laugh until inevitably Bert hollers from an adjacent room, “Christ—will…
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The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Here’s Walt and he’s walking the I-beams down at the job—he’s walking the flanges and eyeing the web he helped design and build. See, the railroad tamed the Wild West in 1888, but it was the regional discovery of crude oil a few years later that gave the city of Casper Wyoming its identity. Early…
The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Walt and Bert and eight-year-old Dondi have been in Wyoming for one month, and they’re still scouting around. This time Walt threw the family in the car and drove them to the nearby Alcova Dam, which forms a reservoir on the North Platte River. The dam rises 265 feet above its foundation and contains 1,635,000…