Douglas' Company F arrived home the prior Saturday and the news was reported that Tuesday. If they were home, chances are that all the men from central Wyoming had likewise returned.
In other news high school baseball teams were already playing each other, even though it was only March and that's still a winter month in Wyoming. The high schools in the state today no longer have baseball, which isn't surprising as the weather simply isn't conducive for it.
The World War One oil boom had hit Converse County, as this paper gives evidence of. Converse County remains a major oil location today. The oil fields referenced in the paper largely spread out towards Casper, which was having a huge oil boom at the time.
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