Natrona County WY Archives History - Books .....Natrona County Veterans 1923 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wy/wyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 5, 2005, 7:05 pm Book Title: History Of Natrona County, Wyoming SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR VETERANS In his message to congress April 11, 1898, among other things President William McKinley said, "In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests, which give us the right and duty to speak and act, the war in Cuba must stop. In view of these facts and these considerations, I ask congress to authorize and empower the president to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the government of Spain and the people of Cuba." In response to the above message, resolutions were adopted on April 18 by the house of representatives and senate as follows: " I. That the people of the Island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent. "2. That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the United States does demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba, and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters. "3. That the president of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several states to such an extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect. "4. That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people." On April 20, Spain was given its ultimatum by the United States to relinquish its authority and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba before noon on April 23, 1898. Spain refused to comply with this demand, and the president issued a proclamation calling for 125,000 volunteers, "the same to be proportioned, as far as practicable, among the several states and territories and the District of Columbia, according to population and to serve for two years, unless sooner discharged." On April 25, congress declared that "war had existed since the 21st day of April, 1898, including said day, between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain." The secretary of war on the 25th notified Governor W. A. Richards that Wyoming's allotment of troops was one battalion of four companies of infantry and that the National Guard should be used as far as their numbers would permit. Companies C of Buffalo, G of Sheridan, F of Douglas, H of Evanston, and a portion of A of Laramie were accepted. These companies assembled in Cheyenne and on May 10 they were mustered into the United States service. On May 18, the battalion left Cheyenne for San Francisco. On June 27 they embarked at San Francisco and arrived at the mouth of Manila Bay July 31. August 6 they were disembarked and went into camp at Paranaque. This battalion participated in the battle of Manila August 13, and was the first to raise its battalion flag over the captured city. Afterwards the Wyoming boys were engaged in numerous battles. July 6. 1899, orders were received to return to the United States and on August 29 the Steamer Grant arrived in San Francisco with the battalion. Governor DeForest Richards and his staff, and many prominent citizens of the state went to San Francisco to welcome the boys home. In the battalion were the following named men from Natrona county: E. A. Cunningham, B. F. Cunningham, C. W. Anderson, W. J. Evans, O. S. Lucas, J. H. Marsh, G. R. Moyer, R. J. White, and Pat McDermott. G. R. Moyer was the only soldier of Natrona county who did not return. He remained in Manila, married a Filipino, and engaged in business. W. F. Dunn received a commission ranking as captain on July 6, 1898, and was ordered to report for duty at Tampa, Florida, for duty in the commissary department. He was in the service about two years, the first year being spent at different camps in the south and the last year he spent in Cuba, most of the time in Santiago and Havana and on board the transport Ingalls, where he assisted in the work of paying off the Cuban soldiers. Mr. Dunn received his discharge in the summer of 1901 and returned to his home in Casper. Dr. J. F. Leeper, although not enlisted in the Spanish-American war, served in the Philippine Islands as army physician, with the rank of captain, from February, 1910, until 1913. Returning to the United States he was army physician in Fort DuShane, Utah, Fort Bayard, New Mexico, and at the Presidio, San Francisco, until October, 1912, when he returned to Casper and resumed his practice among his many old-time friends. The Second United States Volunteer cavalry which was known as "Torrey's Rough Riders," was raised by Colonel Jay L. Torrey. This regiment was composed mostly of Wyoming men. The troopers left Cheyenne on June 22, 1898, for Camp Cuba Libre, Jacksonville, Florida. At Tupelo, Mississippi, on the 26th, the second section of the troop train ran into the first section, which resulted in the immediate death of three troopers. Three others died later, and eleven others were more or less injured. Among the injured was Colonel Torrey. The enlisted men in this regiment from Natrona county were: Hugh L. Patton, first lieutenant; Edward S. White, first sergeant; Robert McAdams, R. W. Wanlace, and George C. Thompson, sergeants; Robert J. Allen, David A. Williams, and Charles E. Nichols, corporals; Charles H. Lilly, trumpeter; Horace Evans, Gillman A. Hackett, George Lobmeier, Eugene H. O'Brien, Charles F. Padden, Lewis D. Scott, troopers. Before leaving for Camp Cuba Libre, the friends of Lieutenant Patton in Natrona county presented to him a sword bearing the following inscription: "Presented to Lieutenant Hugh L. Patton, Second Regiment Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A., Torrey's Rough Riders, by the citizens of Natrona county, Wyoming." John Clark was among the Natrona county "boys" who rendered excellent service to the government during the Spanish-American war, having served as packmaster with Colonel Torrey's regiment, and is entitled to as much credit as were the enlisted men. The record of Torrey's troopers in the Florida camp shows but one "scrap," and that affair never got beyond the borders of the company street. One of the troopers described it to the officer-of-the-day in this wise, "It didn't amount to anything, sir. One of the boys in the Leadville troop got a little too much liquor. He came over to our troop looking for something, and he found it. I handed it to him." These troopers never got into action with the Spaniards. The war ended too soon; but they proved fully the quality of western manhood. The struggle made by Colonel Torrey to get his regiment into action was energetic and persistent, but futile. The regiment arrived in Jacksonville June 28, after the fighting had begun at Santiago. An urgent appeal was made and re-made to be included in the Porto Rican expedition, but cavalry was not needed there, and disappointment followed. AH the friends of the command were sought to make sure of the regiment's being included in the force destined to make the attack on Havana, and there is no doubt but that if such an attack had been made the Torrey Rough Riders would have occupied a conspicuous place. The regiment remained at Camp Cuba Libre until October, when it mustered out. In the battalion, the battery and the Second United States Volunteer cavalry, the" state of Wyoming furnished a number of men aggregating four and a half times her proper quota, as apportioned by the war department—more in proportion to population than any other state in the Union. In his message to the legislature in January, 1899, Governor DeForest Richards said, "The Wyoming Volunteer Aid association, composed of the patriotic women of the state, has inaugurated a movement for. the erection of a monument to the memory of the volunteers from this state who sacrificed their lives in maintaining the honor of their country. It is desired that permission be given for the erection of this monument within the grounds of the capitol and that a suitable contribution to the fund be made by the state." February 20, 1899, the act was passed and the requested permission given. The sum of $1,500 was set apart as a "Heroes' Monument Fund," to be delivered to the Volunteer Aid association when so ordered by the governor. The monument was erected in 1900 and was at first located immediately east of the walk leading to the main entrance of the capitol. In 1917, it was removed to its present location at the southeast corner of the capitol grounds. The membership of the Spanish-American war veterans of Natrona county includes the "boys" who volunteered from Natrona county and who are yet living here, as well as those who responded to their country's call from other places and are now making their home here. On May 21, 1919, Lieutenant Caspar Collins camp, No. 15, United Spanish War veterans, Department of Colorado and Wyoming, Casper, Wyoming, formed its temporary organization, with Joseph H. Adriance, commander; G. H. Peters, junior vice commander; George W. Ferguson, chaplain; Louis Schmidt, quartermaster; Lincoln F. Kelly, color sergeant. On January I, 1922, the roster included the following-named members: J. H. Adriance, Louis R. Schmidt, George C. Thompson, D. M. Lobdell, Wm. M. Green, Thos. H. Downs, Lincoln F. Kelly, John Bryne, John T. Scott, Lewis D. Scott, W. W. Sproul, George W. Ferguson, Wm. J. Evans, Edward J. Kemp, John H. Carey, Otto Schenkel, J. J. Giblin, F. J. Wolfe, Ambrose Hemingway, Elzear A. Pelletier, Chas. H. Lilly, George T. Handbury, J. H. Pinney, Ernest M. Kerr, Thos. Mullin, John H. Creamer, Wm. Armstrong, F. C. Powell, J. C. Kamp, Henry Peterson, Roy Williamson, Jonathan E. Frisby, Virgil O. Nesbitt, John L. Peete, E. N. Cole, Paul Mc-Namara, Chas. C. Campbell, Edgar R. Rouse, George W. Bouseman, John M. Tobin, Lloyd E. Mills, Pat. J. McDonnell, Wade F. Fowler, T. J. Bassett, George W. Bentley, Cyrus M. Morris, Paul Spehr, C. A. Limieux, Harry F. Schifferno, F. B. Sowers, W. R. Covars, S. N. Garvey, Bennie H. Adcock, John J. Durst, Thomas F. Riley, Hugh L. Patton, Samuel Shove. On each Memorial day the members of Caspar Collins Camp decorate with flowers the graves of the soldiers who are interred in Highland cemetery, and they march out to the burial ground in a body where taps are sounded and a salute is fired over the graves of the departed veterans, a list of whom is herewith given: S. Sanchez, C. L. Rounds, James Fitzgerald, Don Miller, Jack Lehee, J. Anderson, Dr. J. F. Leeper, W. Sanders, W. F. Smith, J. H. Chapman, W. Tobin, N. B. Carlysle, Charles Ricker, Enck Anderson, Harry Lyttle, Ed. S. White, H. A. Lilly, Charles L. Dutton, J. R. Miller, Wm. Kropp, W. Santell, W. W. Bahmer, R. T. Kemp. The above were Spanish-American War veterans and the following is a list of the departed Civil War veterans: Henry Shank, Luke Wentworth, Isaac Collins, Matt Campfield, John Karion, Dr. Joe Benson, Wm. J. Emery, James Dickie, Martin Oliver, Peter Heagney, James Dougherty, Joseph Donnelly, Sam Desbron, Charles K. Bucknum, John K. Wood, Hiram Lewis, Nathan Savage, Gillespie, Chauncey Ishbull. NATRONA COUNTY BOYS IN THE WORLD WAR No county in the state of Wyoming and but few counties in any of the states in the Union, population and wealth considered, responded more liberally than Natrona county with men and money to our country's call in the great world war. The inspiring and patriotic words of our congressman, Frank Wheeler Mondell, on the floor of the house, in the discussion as to the advisability of the United States declaring war against the Imperial German government are herewith reprinted, which are worthy of going into history: " For two years and more the spectre of the European war has spread its pall of terror over the earth — to us a nightmare of frightfulness, to the nations engaged, a reality of unspeakable horror. As the titanic conflict on and under and over land and sea has extended its area of destruction, we have fervently hoped and devoutly prayed that we might escape its devouring flame. Our patience and forbearance, as our rights have been ignored and denied, as our honor and power have been mocked, our citizens subjected to humiliation, to fearful suffering and to awful death, have been the outward and visible signs of our profound and sincere longing for honorable peace. But there is no peace! Arrogance and despotic power has decreed suffering and death to all who venture the sea lanes where all have the right under the laws of God and man to pass unharmed- Our flag has been fired upon, our power contemptuously ignored, our citizens wickedly slain. Amid conditions such as these, continued patience and forbearance cease to be a virtue; they come to be accepted as signs of cowardice and weakness, the evidence of supine submission to insult and outrage; they no longer express the attitude of a brave and free people. And so, regretfully, but with firm determination, the Republic draws the sword, firm in the conviction that we fight the battle of human rights against the excesses of despotic power." And then on April 2, 1917, at 8 o'clock in the evening, President Woodrow Wilson called the congress in extraordinary assembly and delivered his "war" message, advocating co-operation and counsel in action with the Allied governments then at war with Germany and the extension of liberal credits to them, and it was realized that we were in fact at the very entrance of war. The president's message was as follows: t "I advise that this congress declare the course of the Imperial German government to be in fact a belligerent of the United States, and that it formally accepts this status of the belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it and employ all of its resources to bring the government to terms and to end the war. "Vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, their character, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning, and without the thought of help or mercy for those on board; even hospital ships, ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium. Though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the prescribed areas by the German government itself and were distinguished by unmistakable marks of identity, they have been sunk with the same reckless lack of compassion or principle." This message, while the American flag was being waved from the mezzanine in the Henning hotel, was read to several thousand people by ex-Governor B. B. Brooks, only a few minutes after it was delivered before congress by the president. When the governor finished reading, all was quiet for a second and then someone started to sing "America," and the thousand men and women sang the national anthem with more meaning and more enthusiasm then they ever sung it before. After the president's message had been read to congress Chairman Flood of the house committee on military affairs introduced a resolution as follows: "Whereas, The recent course of the Imperial German government is in fact nothing less than a war against the government and the people of the United States, Therefore, be it RESOLVED, By the senate and the house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, that a state of belligerency which thus has been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared, and that the president be authorized to immediately take steps not only to put this country in a state of defense, but to exert all power and employ all the resources of this country to carry on war and bring the conflict to a successful conclusion." This resolution was passed by the house of congress at 3:08 in the morning of April 6, 1917, by a vote of 373 to 50, after a debate lasting seventeen hours, during which twenty-five members spoke. And thus, on Good Friday, the day on which Christ died for humanity, America went to war against the Imperial German government for humanity. Then came the preparation for war. Recruiting stations were established in every town of any size in the United States; Red Cross organizations were perfected, food conservation was commenced and the people laid aside money for the purchase of Liberty bonds. Many young men volunteered for service at once and others declared they were ready, willing and anxious to go when their country should call them, and on the fifth of June, when the first register for military draft was finished, there were 1,276 names from Natrona county on the roll, while 960 were reported as absent, making a total of 2,236 available men to enter the war from this county, in addition to the 196 who had entered the service as volunteers. Natrona county was called upon July 20 to draw fifty-seven names for the first selective draft, and on August 7, 8 and 9, 102 draft men were ordered to report to the board. By this time the people of the whole nation had their meatless days and their wheatless days; they wore their old clothes; they denied themselves the luxuries and pleasures they had been accustomed to having and saved their money to buy Liberty bonds. Women were knitting socks and sweaters and making dressings and bandages for our boys who had gone. Although the older men could not go to the front, like the younger men, they were nevertheless fully as patriotic, and gave up their time, their money and their pleasures, and made many sacrifices in order that this war might be brought to a "successful conclusion." From Casper there were 1,300 registered; from Badwater, 3; Greenlaw, 1; Bessemer, 13; Powder River, 40; Salt Creek, 88; Bucknum, 15; Arminto, 60; Efell, 10; Big Muddy, 14; Freeland, 16; Waltman, 9; Miller, 4; Lone Bear, 14; Alcova, 17; Oil City, 7; Ervay, 7. At the recruiting station in Casper on July 20 there were 150 names on the roster of Company L, Wyoming National Guard. These men were encamped at the fair grounds south of town from July 20 until August 2, when they left for the Cheyenne temporary training camp, and a fund of $1,000 was raised by the citizens of Casper as a "mess fund" for the boys. The first Natrona county draft delegation to leave for training quarters was on September 5, 1917. Two men were called. They went to American Lake, Camp Lewis. The second increment, consisting of nineteen men, left on September 23, and the third, consisting of twenty men, left on October 7. For the fourth increment thirteen men were called on November 2. During this time more than 200 men had voluntarily enlisted and gone to their training camps. The first death to occur on foreign soil among the soldiers of Natrona county was on January 17, 1918, at 8:55 in the evening, when George L. Vroman, a private in an ammunition train, died of pneumonia. He contracted a severe cold during a railroad trip from the port at which he landed in France to the first landing station. He was 31 years of age. By the first of March, 1918, 422 men from Natrona county had enlisted as soldiers and more than 200 had enrolled in the public service reserve. The Standard and Midwest refineries had many extra guards at their plants, guards were stationed at the Pathfinder dam, railroad bridges were guarded and every precaution was taken against German spies, there being every reason to believe that quite a number were located in and around Casper. Seventeen draft men left on April 27 for Camp Lewis, and on May 10 six men left for Camp Lewis and five for Fort McDowell, California, and a call was received on May 13 for 100 men from Natrona county to entrain for Fort Benjamin Harrison on May 20 and twenty to be sent to Fort Logan, Colorado, on May 29. Thirteen more left for Camp Logan, Utah, June 13, and a call was made for seventy-five men to go to Camp Lewis June 28. There were sixty-nine men volunteered for the service during the month of June. By this time not enough men were left on the range in this county to properly look after the stock; clerks were short in the stores and offices, there was a shortage of skilled mechanics at the refineries and there was a shortage of men everywhere in the county, but the calls kept coming for more men, and on July 6 fifty-four men left for Fort Logan; twenty more left for the same place on the 19th and on the 23rd 100 men were called to Fort Riley, Kansas. Seven selectives left for Camp Fremont, California, August 6, and seven more left for the same place the following day. Nineteen were called for Fort Riley on August 12, and twelve for Camp Lewis September 4, and on September 6, eight members of the Home Guard left for Camp Lewis. During the month of August three doctors, one lawyer and one minister enlisted. Word was received in August that Guy Burson had been killed in action on July 5. He was the first Natrona county soldier who had been killed in battle. Fifty-nine men left for Camp Lewis October 10, and eleven men left for Fort McArthur, San Pedro, California, October 23. By this time it was estimated that more than 2,000 men from Natrona county were in the service. On the morning of November 7, 1918, telegraphic news was received in Casper, as it was in every town of any consequence in the whole of the United States, that the kaiser had abdicated, and Germany had indicated her surrender by the signing of an armistice, and that hostilities had ceased. Upon the receipt of these glad tidings every whistle in the city screeched, the bells in the churches rang forth the wonderful news, and men, women and even the little children knew the cause of all the noise and commotion without asking. Great crowds of people of all classes, sex, color, and age formed in the main thoroughfares of the city and cheered; an impromptu parade was formed, and the huge crowd marched to the court house; flags were unfurled, the band played, patriotic songs were sung and prayer was offered, and everybody went home with a light heart, but the next day word came over the wire that the news was not official; that the kaiser had not abdicated, that Germany had not indicated her surrender by asking for an armistice, and that hostilities had not ceased. The war spirit again permeated the air, and the people were ready and anxious to sacrifice not only their last dollar, but their last drop of blood to bring the foe to submission. Men far beyond the age limit were anxious to leave their homes and families and take up arms against the relentless foe, but on the morning of November 9 an official announcement was received that the kaiser had abdicated, and that the Imperial German government was ready to surrender, and at 2:40 on the morning of November II, 1918, official news was received of the submission of Germany. It was announced that the armistice was signed at 5 o'clock in the morning, Paris time, which is some ten hours earlier than western time in the United States, and that hostilities had entirely ceased at 11 o'clock A.M. all along the lines. Again the whistles shrieked forth and the bells in the city rang long and loud. But few people remained in bed, although the hour was early, and they determined to make this a big day as well as a long one. Arrangements were quickly made to fittingly celebrate the occasion, and all the business houses, offices and factories in the city were closed in the afternoon and a monster parade was formed; thousands of people were in line, the bands played, and. the day was celebrated as only Americans can celebrate after such a grand victory. Then the casualty lists commenced to come in. This was the sad, sad part of the war. As Natrona county's percentage of men in the war was large, the casualty list must necessarily be large. Twenty-six men from this little county sacrificed their lives, a list of whom is herewith appended: Asimakopoulos, Demetrios; Bean, Frank L.; Buhr, John L.; Burson, Guy C.; Butler, James; Cheadle, Albert K.; Cheney, William D.; Cummings, Cecil Fleming; Cutler, Frank D.; Devault, Charlie O.; Evans, Richard T.; Graves, Loren; Green, Archie B.; Humann, Herman; Lowery, Bond M.; Marston, William D.; Mobius, Frank; McClaflin, Arbie W.; Neil, Harry W.; Romero, Frank Bernal; Sanford, Albert B.; Scannell, Francis E.; Snyder, Orin L; Speckbacker, John M.; Starks, Hugh L.; Stanley, Dewey M.; Vroman, George W. In January, 1919, Adjutant General W. K. Weaver made a comprehensive report of the part that Wyoming took in the world war, and among other things he said: "It is worthy of note and pride that in, this war, as in the Spanish-American war, Wyoming furnished more soldiers in proportion to population than any other state. Wyoming furnished 923 men for the draft in 1917 and over 7,000 for the 1918 draft. All told the state sent more than 12,000 men to the army, and approximately one-half of these men were sent over seas." About seven per cent of Wyoming's population served the nation on battlefields and in camps, while the average for the United States was about four per cent, and it will be noted with pride that Natrona county's percentage was far in advance of even the state's percentage. In 1920 the federal census showed that Natrona county had a population of 14,635, and allowing 1,365 that the census enumerators might have, and no doubt did overlook, that would have given us a population of 16,000. In 1917-18 the population surely was not more than it was in 1920, and in that case, with 2,000 men in the service, which was twelve and one-half per cent of our population, a percentage that very few counties in the whole nation equaled. It was not long after the signing of the armistice until the soldiers commenced to return home from the numerous camps, and in order to give them a hearty welcome, a Mother's league was formed. On February 20, 1919, this league secured rooms on the ground floor of the Oil Exchange building, and on the 26th the rooms were thrown open to the soldiers and sailors who had returned. The rooms were furnished with tables and chairs, and there was an abundance of books and magazines and cards and games of different kinds, and it was surely a boon for many a young man who returned from camp and had no home, no position, and but little money to make a new start in life. The club was under the management of the Mother's league until June 12, when it was turned over to the Army and Navy club. On April 23, 1919, a temporary organization of the Natrona county chapter of the American Legion was perfected, with Edgar S. Moore as president; Edgar S. Bean, vice president; Kestler Long, secretary; R. H. Nichols, treasurer; and E. Hussey, C. P. Plummer and W. H. Fuller, committee on constitution and bylaws. On July 18, 1919, the Casper chapter asked for a charter membership in the American Legion, and it was granted August 26, and was given the name of George L. Vroman Post No. 2, in honor of the first Natrona county soldier who died over seas. There were thirty-five charter members, and Chiles P. Plummer was elected chairman, and C. R. Peterson secretary. R. H. Nichols was elected to represent the local post in the state legion. The Army and Navy club was then merged into the Legion, which has resulted in a strong and beneficial organization with a large and influential membership. The Denny O. Wyatt Post, No. 57, in honor of one of Natrona county's brave young soldiers, who served over seas, returned home and died from the effects of injuries received while he was in the service, received its national and state charter on the 12th day of March, 1922, with forty charter members. Excellent club rooms were secured where social entertainments and business sessions were held on regular occasions. The initial election of officers for this post was held on the evening of April 17, 1922, when T. J. McKeon was named as post commander; L. F. Thome, vice commander; H. M. McDermott, finance officer; Fred Dralle, adjutant. It was reported at this meeting that the post had a membership numbering eighty. A massive bronze tablet was unveiled at the capitol building in Cheyenne on November n, 1921, the anniversary of Armistice day, upon which was this inscription: "Dedicated to the Memory of Those Men from Wyoming Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice." Beneath the inscription appear the names of approximately 350 Wyoming soldiers who are known to have died in the military service during the great World war. This memorial tablet is seven by four feet in dimensions, and is supported on either side by a female figure holding in her hand a palm branch. The legislature of 1921 appropriated $2,000 for the purchase of this tablet, which has been placed at the right-hand side of the capitol rotunda, near the main entrance, which is a fitting memorial to the young men who sacrificed their lives for their country. Powder River Post, No. 291, Veterans of Foreign Wars, was organized in Casper in October, 1922, and the charter remained open until November 16, when the post was instituted and officers installed as follows: Commander, E. R. Purkiser; senior vice commander, E. A. Carrier; junior vice commander, Orin Theige; adjutant, Thuron R. Hughes; quartermaster, D. D. Murphy; chaplain, C. H. C. Scullion; trustees, Charles J. McNulty, Harold A. Park, W. H. Blott; membership committee, E. A. Carrier, Charles H. C. Scullion, Noble Welch; post historian, M. T. Rice; patriotic instructor, N. E. Robinson. Additional Comments: History of NATRONA COUNTY WYOMING 1888-1922 True Portrayal of the Yesterdays of a New County and a Typical Frontier Town of the Middle West. Fortunes and Misfortunes, Tragedies and Comedies, Struggles and Triumphs of the Pioneers and Illustrations BY ALFRED JAMES MOKLER Publisher of the Natrona County Tribune from June 1, 1897, to October 15, 1914 R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO (1923) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wy/natrona/history/1923/historyo/natronac12gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wyfiles/ File size: 31.0 Kb