Winston Churchill Speeches and Radio Broadcasts : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Winston Churchill Speeches and Radio Broadcasts : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor (12-07-1941) : Radio Announcement : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

War Declaration(12-07-1941) : Radio Announcement : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Pat Novak for Hire : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Pat Novak for Hire : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Really over the top dialog that almost has to be the inspiration for Calvin's imaginary detective in the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

The Lives Of Harry Lime (1951 -1952) : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

The Lives Of Harry Lime (1951 -1952) : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

A prequil to The Third Man, one of my favorite movies.

Dragnet - Single Episodes : Old Time Radio Researchers Group : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Dragnet - Single Episodes : Old Time Radio Researchers Group : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

An absolute classic, but with a much hard boiled edge that the television version with the same actors.   If the plot hadn't resolved in about 30 minutes they were probably going to shoot the suspect.

Gunsmoke - Single Episodes : Old Time Radio Researchers Group : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Gunsmoke - Single Episodes : Old Time Radio Researchers Group : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

An absolute classic.  Conrad's radio Marshall Dillon didn't mess around.  If there was no resolution to the story after about 50 minutes you cold figure the bad man was going to get show shortly.

Sherlock Holmes --> 125+ episodes, properly titled and tagged : smurfmeat : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Sherlock Holmes --> 125+ episodes, properly titled and tagged : smurfmeat : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

I really don't care for the written versions of these stories much.  Not sure why, and perhaps I would now (I last read them in my teens).  But the radio version is oddly amusing and captivating.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - Single Episodes : Old Time Radio Researchers Group : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - Single Episodes : Old Time Radio Researchers Group : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

One of my favorite old radio shows, I picked up a fondness for it traveling for work.  It follows the investigations of hard boiled insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, "The man with the action packed expense account."

Cheesy, but addictive.

25 greatest law novels…ever! - ABA Journal

25 greatest law novels…ever! - ABA Journal

Interesting  list.  Some of these I wouldn't have considered law novels.  Given that, I suppose, I'm actually surprised to see that I've read a few of them. For example, I love the novel The Ox Bow Incident, but I wouldn't have considered it to be a legal novel.  I guess it is, however, given that its central them is the nature of justice.

The Caine Mutiny is another great one.  I read that one many years ago after having seen the movie numerous times and the filed version of the play (which is also great). To Kill A Mockingbird is as well, but I likewise wouldn't have thought of it as a legal drama, even though I can see why many do.

Bartleby the Scrivner, on the other hand, I hated.   I know its supposed to be a classic, but I don't like it.

I've never read Anatomy of a Murder, but I've always thought the film is the single best legal drama ever filmed. Really great.  And I've often commented that it must have been written by a lawyer, which I see it actually was.  I'm surprised, however, that the lawyer was a judge, but that must explain why the judge really steals the show in the film.

Today In Wyoming's History: July 30

Today In Wyoming's History: July 30:


1918. Poet Joyce Kilmer, U.S. Army sergeant, killed in France.

TREES

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree .

 

Holscher's Hub: Yours faithfully, P. M. Wickham

Holscher's Hub: Yours faithfully, P. M. Wickham:

My great grandfather, Patrick Martin Wickham, in 1897.

Ipad?

Does anyone here have an Ipad, and if you do, what do you use it for?

I keep seeing them in the hands of lawyers and other businessmen, but I'm not sure why.

Today In Wyoming's History: July 25 The Bannock War.

Today In Wyoming's History: July 25:

1895 Bannock Indians surround 250 settlers in Jackson Hole but are dispersed by the 9th Cavalry.  This was part of the Bannock War of 1895, which was spared by the State of Wyoming prohibiting the killing of elk for their teeth and the subsequent arrest of several Bannock hunters that year.

Bannock Indians in Jackson's Hole by Frederic Remington.

What an amazingly late Indian War.  And frankly, I wasn't even really familiar with the Bannocks being in Wyoming.

Horse Trailer

Horse Trailer:

An example of what they once looked like, although this one been in a pretty bad wreck.

Today In Wyoming's History: The British in Wyoming

Today In Wyoming's History: The British in Wyoming: Some time ago I did an entry here on the Irish in Wyoming , which has turned out to be one of the most popular threads on the blog.  People...

British Royal Baby Name Watch: Æthelred the Unready

Right now, the American press is camping outside the hospital in the UK where the "royal baby" is in residence, in part waiting for the announcement of what he'll be named. British bookies (the British bet on everything) are taking bets on that topic.

It seems that the royal baby is always given a name of a prior British monarch. That's fine with me, but I think this go around they ought to reach back and get a nifty one from antiquity. Which is why I'm backing a name rich with English history: 

Æthelred.

Now that's a good Saxon name.

It hasn't been used since 1016, in part because the last monarch named that was, well, unready. Also, the Normans came in and spoiled the whole thing just 50 years later and everybody started getting much blander names, like William or Henry.

Enough already.  Let's go back to the monarchy's beginnings, even if the current occupants of the English throne descend from Germans who didn't have anything better to do when the English tossed out one of the occupants of that position.  Time to bring back 

Æthelred.

The British Royal News: Why?

I know that Prince William and Princess Kate having a baby is some sort of news, but can anyone explain to me why it is receiving the same level of news attention that Neal Armstrong landing on the moon, or the Fall of Baghdad gets, at least here in the US?

I get that it impacts the line of succession of the British royal throne, but why do Americans care. Didn't we reject all that gold plated plush silliness in 1776? 

And it isn't as if they're the only monarchy still around.  Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands all have European royal families who retain thrones.  At least France, Spain and Greece still have royals who can be identified, even though their countries aren't constitutional monarchies.  Even the Russian imperial line has identifiable descendants, in spite of the disaster of the Russian Revolution.  Jordon and Saudi Arabia have monarchies that actually rule, if people like to observe that sort of thing.  Japan's imperial crown has been occupied by the same family for much, much longer than the English throne has.  Indeed, England has a pretty pronounced history of having booted royal families out, or having their lines die out, and whatnot so that the current group of monarchs, who descend from a family imported from Germany, haven't really been on the throne all that long, in historical terms.

Maybe its just television, which likes big flashy shows, which most European monarchies seem to have grown out of, but the whole thing is a mystery to me.  They aren't, after all, our kings and queens. 

A Natrona County Homestead

A Natrona County Homestead:

I'm not sure of the vintage of this one, but it was occupied for a long time, probably as late as the 1970s.

The Oregon Trail in Converse County.

Above is an Oregon Trail marker, placed in 1913, south of Douglas Wyoming. The Oregon Trail itself is visible directly behind it, being the strip of green sagebrush that's grown up over it in the prairie.

The white marker on the top of the hill is a marker used to mark the course of the trail.

 

 Looking down on the trail.

 The trail is visible in this photo, across the highway, where it goes up the side of a hill.

Erosion in the path of the trail.

An Albany County High Country Homestead

An Albany County High Country Homestead: 

 Note the horses in the abandoned barn.

This homestead is clearly a 20th Century homestead, and quite near the one pictured in the thread immediately below.  It has a surprising number of outbuildings, so the ranch that was headquartered here must have employed some cowboys in addition to employing the rancher and his family.

Both of the homestead pictured in these two thread are quite high altitude, and were probably late homesteads.