A Tale of 1930s Cowboy Spirit Is Revived in Wyoming (New York Times) SHERIDAN, Wyo. In early 1939, as talk of war in Europe clouded the horizon and hard economic times gripped the nation, a group of business and political leaders in this northern Wyoming city hatched an audacious, if not quite ridiculous, plan to break off huge chunks of Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana and form a new state. |