Camp Wyoba Memories
Compiled by Mary Mortensen Burman
August, 1997
“Camp Wyoba—what a great place!… The founders of Camp Wyoba gave us a unique place to find the love of God. Anyone that has been to Casper Mountain and spent time at Camp Wyoba will never forget their experience.” Mel Gabel of Torrington said that! And what a great way to begin this brief walk down memory lane of some Wyoba campers.
Brief History of the Property
“Assemblies” of Wyoming Baptists of all ages combined were held from 1923–1929. In 1929 the assembly was in Lander. Jim Bailey wrote, “The first Wyoming Baptist Assembly (which I attended) was at Fremont County Vocational High School, Lander—eight boys and lots of girls. I was part of the group of boys called the ‘Eatin’ Eight’ with the motto ‘When do we eat?’ led by Kenneth Eaton of Torrington.” From 1930–33 assemblies were held at Camp Carey, the Boy Scout Camp south of Glenrock.
In 1932 the Wyoming Baptist Convention leased an undeveloped area on Casper Mountain from the City of Casper for 99 years at $1 per year. Later it turned out that the City of Casper did not own the land; therefore the lease had no value. The land was owned by Albert Zuill, the county surveyor and a wonderful person. He sold the land to the Wyoming Baptist Convention for a small amount, giving legal title to the land.
In the 1940’s the area known as Merrifield Meadow was purchased from Albert Zuill. And in 1997 Wyoming Baptists generously united to purchase the Galles Property of 35 acres for $120,000.
Designed to be primarily a camp for youth, the camp was referred to as ‘The Assembly’. The Baptist Young People’s Union (BYPU, predecessor of our present ABY—American Baptist Youth) sponsored a contest to select a more unique name for the camp. There is more than one ‘legend’ about the name WYOBA. Cornelia Parrill wrote, “My aunt, Blanche English, who taught school in Lovell at the time, submitted the winning name, WYOBA. She and Aunt Phoebe worked at camp for many summers over a period of about 30 years from the early 30’s to the early 60’s.”
Another story comes from Jim Bailey that Richard Thomason submitted the name. “Thomason worked during the Depression for the Table Supply at $10 per week, got inspired at our Wyoming Christian Camp, went to college, and wound up as third man in the United States Postal System and invented and promoted the Zip Code.” Both stories agree that the name was coined from WYOming Baptist Assembly. The comment was made that ‘Wyoba’ sounded sort of Indian.
Camp Buildings
The first building erected was the log dining hall build by volunteer laborers working for a dollar a day and means during the Depression. The next building was Casper Cabin build by the Royal Ambassadors led by Howard Bailey. (The Royal Ambassadors was a boys’ club in our Baptist churches in the 1930’s and 1940’s.) The logs were the largest in the area and not more than 5-6 inches in diameter.
Camping, and construction of more buildings, were promoted by Dr. M.D. Austin, pastor of FBC Casper, who served as president of the Wyoming Baptist Convention in 1935. Between 1932–34 five buildings were constructed by volunteers from around the state from logs cut on Wyoba property. Volunteers build both the girls’ and boys’ dorms, Casper Cabin, a small general use cabin, and the dining hall. These buildings were in use during the 1934 assembly, the first camping on the Wyoba site. As proof of their fine work, Casper Cabin and the boys’ dorm are still standing. Casper Cabin is used for staff personnel and some storage; the old boys’ dorm is the camp workshop and storage building.
The White Chapel
The chapel, often called the White Chapel, was built in 1936 under the leadership of Reverend J.A. Nordstrom of Golden Prairie Church, later executive secretary for Wyoming Baptists. It was used for Wyoming Baptist state conventions for the next four years. The chapel was a white frame building. The main floor was a large assembly hall; the upper floor was used as a girls’ dormitory space for about a dozen campers. Many early campers remember the view from the chapel as the front wooden shutters were opened up, and as one worshiped, you gazed at the aspens, pines, and frequently a deer or two grazing on the tall grasses. There was a wooden pulpit and wooden pews. There was a small raised stage for worship, for talent nights, etc. That was the old chapel with the slanty floor!
After the dining hall collapsed, the chapel was used for eating meals which were catered and brought to camp and for crafts during one season of camping. The White Chapel served very well for many years, but was the casualty of a heavy spring snow lad. Amy Collins mourned the loss of the chapel: “It should have been preserved as an historic building. I stayed in the loft.”
Dining Halls
The original dining hall was a log building with the kitchen attached in the rear. There was a root cellar for keeping food cool. These buildings were located where the flagpole and tetherball poles are presently located. Early camp cooks were Mrs. Dudley Dismuke and Mrs. John Kelly of FBC Casper. Cooking was done on coal/wood stoves with light from gas lanterns. Mrs. Bolle was one of the cooks in the 1940’s, and campers recall her bringing up potatoes and butter from the root cellar. Water was carried in buckets from the spring to the kitchen and dining hall. There was no telephone at first; later an unreliable rural telephone line was put in with an old-fashioned ‘crank’ telephone. Today there is dependable telephone service at the camp.
Bolle Memorial Dining Hall/Hildebrand Kitchen was erected in 1958 when Al Swenson was executive secretary of Wyoming Baptists. The building was named for Dr. Harry Bolle, who was executive secretary of the Wyoming Baptists from 1939–46 and participated wholeheartedly in the camping program, and his wife Mabel who served as camp cook some years. Dr. Bolle’s daughter, Margaret Prine, said that the M&M insurance funds received by the family after Dr. Bolle’s death were donated to the dining hall.
The kitchen portion was named for the Hildebrand family who ranched in the Glenrock-Douglas area. Janice Hildebrand Fendley wrote, “I knew that people in my family gave support to the camp monetarily as in the Bolle/Hildebrand dining hall. My grandparents helped with the camp: Verbal and Johnny Hildebrand, as well as my Mother and Dad, Verna and Don Hildebrand.” The Hildebrand family traditionally provided a beef for the kitchen each camping season.
The dining area was large and spacious and had a lovely fireplace which was build by C.W. Pirtle of FBC Worland. The state convention hired Bower as Convention Carpenter. He worked at Wyoba for five years. His wife Rowena remembers: “He did so much work at Wyoba. I stayed up there with him, and we lived in the pink trailer close to the dining hall. Carlos Moore worked with Clint all the time. Clint lived in the old nurse’s cabin the first year he was up there. He loved Camp Wyoba—that was his big project after he was converted. He felt God wanted him to go up there and work; Reverend Harold Jack helped him decide to go. He and Al Swenson were very good friends and worked together all the time along with a lot of other guys…”
Unfortunately, in 1974 this building collapsed from a heavy snow. For some camping seasons after that, a large National Guard tent was set up on the cement floor and used for the dining/kitchen area.
Present Dining Hall
To replace the ruined Bolle/Hildebrand Building, the present dining hall was built in 1977 through the cooperation of Baptists in the Rocky Mountain region. This building contains a large dining hall, large windows on three sides, an attached kitchen, restrooms, and a large stone fireplace.
Bailey Missionary Cabin
Bailey Missionary Cabin, situated right next to the dining hall, was built in 1953 by the Bailey family in memory of their father and brother, Albert W. Bailey and Edna E. Bailey. This cabin has a rock fireplace, two bedrooms and bath. It is used for program staff, often camp directors or pastors.
Camper Living Accommodations
Boys’ and Girls’ Dorms and Shower Facilities
Dorms for boys and for girls were log structures built between 1932–34.
Some campers remembered the straw ticks on the bunks. FBC Cheyenne opened camp some of the early years. Campers went up a day early to fill the ticks with fresh straw and clean mice and pack rat nests out of bunks in the girls’ dorm—always found a few pennies, bottle caps, and other shiny objects.
Xelda Ditmer wrote, “I remember mice used to run across the beds in the girls’ dorm. Three girls could sleep in a lower bunk on the porch. Sometimes one girl would change position to be in a different place when the counselor made bed check. The other two were out with boys.” (We wonder where was Xelda?)
Quentin Glass recalls his first trip to Wyoba: “The camp itself was very primitive in 1941. Dining hall was an old log building at the base of the hill below another old building that served as the main boys’ dorm. Just off the path, to the left as you approached the dorm were some outdoor toilets. The chapel was a white building with board siding a couple of hundred feet up the ‘path’ from the dining hall toward a primitive girls’ dorm. It was a small enclosure that had an elevated drum which supplied water for the shower. Above the chapel was a sleeping area for a dozen or so campers.”
Dott Armstrong served as Dean of Girls at one of the camps when boys and girls met separately. “The girls’ dorm was an inner building with screened-in porch around 3 sides. We had to use it all so we hung our coats and bathrobes along the outside walls to keep out some of the cold. I nearly froze until one of the pastors showed me how to make my cot by lapping my blankets. It did help. We all met together (about 40 girls) in the ‘inner sanctum’ for our devotions, etc.”
The two side porches of the girls’ dorm had two layers of double bunks. The inner room had double bunks three layers high. The girls’ dorm went down under a heavy snow as did the log dining hall. Above the chapel was the fanciest dorm—also the hottest because of lack of windows, according to Jackie Forbes Carter.
When Wyoba first opened, there were no showers; campers washed in the creek and went home with dirty chapped hands. Many campers had memories of outdoor showers and toilets! Amy Collins wrote, “We had to wash up with water dipped directly from the creek in wash basins. Yes, it was cold! Surely woke one up in the morning. When it was time for ‘lights out’, they were turned out centrally—you’d better be ready!”
The shower house was built by Carlos Moore near the creek. It had walls but no roof. Carlos designed a way to heat some water with an old water heater tank and a big log fire under it. The girls had showers first at four in the afternoon; then it was necessary to build up the fires again, so the boys had showers later in the day. Several told of washing in the creek and brushing their teeth there. When returning home, campers had raw, rough hands from the cold water treatment!
Dott Armstrong remembered that the rest rooms and showers were outside in roofless buildings. The sun helped warm them!
Jackie Forbes Carter wrote, “General hygiene took place at a stump or washstand outside the tent with a wash basin and cold water. Wet washcloths and towels were hung around tent flaps to dry. You brushed teeth outside and spit on the ground.”
Janice Hildebrand Fendley recalled: “We raced to get showers before the hot water was gone. Taking showers without a roof over our heads was chilly at times and the boiler only held so much water. It was wonderful when the new cabins and the new shower rooms were built on the hill.”
Tent Camping
As the dorm buildings deteriorated and became unusable, army wall tents were used to house campers. These were big tents set up on wooden platforms built under the direction of Reverend Clyde Thompson of FBC Douglas. Sylvia Hansen was certain that they slept on concrete! It was always a challenge to keep the tent clean!
Cornelia Parrill remembered, “We stayed in an army tent with 5 other girls and slept on army cots. The attic of the old chapel was a dorm for girls. Girls’ shower room had no roof. So we didn’t spend much time getting cleaned up. The girls’ outhouse was pretty fancy. It had 6 holes back to back. One year, at our camp, a girl walked in the outhouse and there was a bear. She screamed and they both ran in opposite directions.”
Covered Wagons
Beyond the regular camp building area, some covered wagons were set up which were used a year or two for camper accommodations.
Campers’ Memorial Cabins
The ten log cabins presently used to house campers were primarily memorial cabins built between 1958–1966 while Al Swenson was executive secretary of the Wyoming Baptist Convention. There are five on each side of the creek—generally referred to as boys’ and girls’ sides. These are one-room cabins with four double bunks, one in each corner. Generally, a single bed is in the middle for the cabin leader. Four of the fireplaces in the cabins were built by Al Swenson and Don Jones, brick mason from Laramie FBC. The cost for each cabin was donated by a church or an individual; the cabins were then named in accordance with their wishes. All labor was voluntary but Al Swenson made it fun!
Girls’ Cabins
Gertrude Brox Cabin
This Cabin was named to honor Gertrude Brox of Rawlins. A graduate of Sioux Falls College, Ottawa University, and Central Baptist Seminary, she worked under Dr. Bolle in the Wyoming Baptist State Convention office. She participated on the camp staff, but felt called to the foreign mission field. She went to India in 1951 where she served at the mission station in Bhimpore until her untimely death in India in June 1954. A small book ‘Thou Didst Say Unto Me’, composed of entries from her devotional diary, was published shortly after her death by Judson Press in 1955.
Emerson Cabin
Emerson cabin was named for Miss Grace Emerson of Cheyenne FBC. She was honored by her brother, Dr. Paul Emerson, a pediatrician with Boston General Hospital, who later returned to Cheyenne to practice medicine. During World War II when gasoline was rationed, Grace loaned her car so kids could get to camp. Since she never drove her car (and most folks believed that she did not even know how to drive!), she had plenty of gas ration coupons so there was enough gas to get campers to and from Wyoba. Marguerite Mortensen Bieber, as a young teacher home for the summer in 1942 or 1943, drove the car to camp with junior girls, and then served as a camp counselor.
Hammond Cabin
Hammond Cabin was named for Paulette Hammond, daughter of Lois Hammond of Casper Bethel Church. She died in a climbing accident at Garden Creek Falls on Casper Mountain.
Sunrise Cabin
Sunrise Cabin was built by the Baptist Church of the little mining community of Sunrise and given by the Wahl family.
Belle Williams Cabin
This cabin is named after former Casperite Belle Williams. A nurse, she married an American Baptist missionary Paul Romess, and they worked in Haiti. They began a school there, starting with 25 students and growing to 500.
Boys’ Cabins
Clark Cabin was probably named for the Reverend H.T. Clark of Lovell. He was on camp staff a number of years.
Emmanuel Cabin
This boys’ cabin was named in memory of ‘little Earl’—Earl Emmanuel Christensen of Rawlins. This boy lived to be only about ten years old, and his parents Charles and Mary Christensen gave this cabin in his memory.
Glass Cabin
Quentin Glass wrote, “At some time in the 1950’s, the Wyoming Baptist Convention began to improve and update Camp Wyoba, and it was probably about 1960 that my folks gave the money to build Glass Cabin in memory of my brother Stanley who had died in February 1957.” Stan died from Hodgkins disease. The Glass family were leaders in Worland FBC, father Simeon E. Glass, and his children Quentin, Stanley, and Peggy were all attenders at Wyoba camps or retreats. Also Quentin’s daughter Margie was a third generation Wyoba camper.
Carlos Moore Cabin
This cabin was named for Carlos Moore, described by Ken Merrifield as “the beloved maintenance person, etc.” The cabin was built by Clint Bower with Carlos Moore helping with the work all the time. Mel Gavel wrote, “Carlos Moore was the handyman around camp for many years. I always thought that would be the ideal summer job. The campers really enjoyed Carlos and his labors of love.”
Turner Cabin
It is thought that this cabin was named for the Turner family from the Big Horn Basin.
Other Camp Buildings
Rock Springs Cabin (Craft Cabin)
This cabin was a gift of the people of Rock Springs FBC. It was built across the creek from the old dining hall. The bridge was right below the cabin. During many camp seasons it was used for crafts and became known as the Craft Cabin. It is now torn down.
Fox Cabin
Fox Cabin, located slightly uphill behind the Dining Hall, was given in memory of Ruth Sears Fox’ father of Casper FBC. It is used by camp kitchen staff.
Buchanan Nurse’s Cabin
This white frame building has two rooms (one for the nurse, the other for ill campers) and two bathrooms in it. Margie Buchanan of Rock Springs, a camp leader and Wyoming Baptist Women officer, was honored by the naming of this cabin. Quentin Glass tells of Mrs. Buchanan, “At one of the youth camps I had a Bible teacher by the name of Mrs. Buchanan from Rock Springs. She made all of us sign a note that we would never drink alcoholic beverages. Even after four years in the U.S. Navy, I kept that promise until I was 24 years old.” Mrs. Buchanan served several years as president of the Wyoming Baptist Women.
Outdoor Prayer Chapel
Not a building, but a memorable site is the Outdoor Prayer Chapel, up the path beyond the Memorial Building. Log seats, a rustic pulpit, and a log cross on a small rise in the ground make up this place of quiet worship, known to campers for many years. The path winds upward to the prayer chapel with a sign “Quiet” as you approach.
Memorial Hall
Following the demise of the White Chapel, another building was necessary for camp programming. Some funds were available in memorial gifts. Other funds were raised around the state to build a multi-purpose building on the site of the old chapel. Constructed about 1985, it was named Memorial Hall in honor of all who donated money and who helped build it. The building is used as the camp chapel and as a general meeting place for camp group activities. It is one large room with two small porches.
Hamm Lodge
A larger building, Hamm Lodge, was built by Clint Bower. It has a large sitting room, plus three bedrooms, fireplace, and bath. It was given by Adolph Hamm of Gillette FBC. It is used for staff and occasionally for camper overflow when the other cabins were full.
Snack Shack
This popular small building has an interesting story. In 1953 Mel Gabel was working on a Boy Scout merit badge. A project undertaken by the Worland FBC men was to build the Snack Shack and haul it to Wyoba. The boys in the church scout troop worked on it with the men and earned credit toward their merit badge. Men who contributed help were Ted Outland, Reverend Harold Jack, C.W. Pirtle, and Bob Smith. And Mel Gabel earned his merit badge!
Boys’ and Girls’ Shower Rooms
These two buildings, which replaced the roofless shower house, were built by Clint Bower. They contained several shower stalls and toilets. There is one on each side of the creek, centrally located to the five cabins.
Rising and Dinner Bell
Leonard Deahl, Don Dungan, and Mel Gabel from Torrington FBC, and Jim Ogle from Burns hung the bell in the trees next to the stream. “We must have done a good job, the bell is still there and is rung every mealtime.” Tradition is that the bell is from an old retired railroad engine.
Transportation to Camp
During the early years, the camp was reached by traveling dirt roads from Casper, overcoming the mud when it rained. A Cheyenne camper reported that they went to Casper on the train, stayed overnight with Casper church families, who then took them up to Wyoba the next day. A few churches utilized buses to gather kids from several adjoining churches: campers from Basin, Manderson, Worland, and maybe Thermopolis rode the bus.
Mary Burman recalled that once during World War II the U.S Marshal was a member of FBC Cheyenne. It was very difficult to get transportation because cars were wearing out, tires were hard to come by, and gas rationing was in effect. The U.S. Marshal had to go to Casper to pick up a federal prisoner, and he offered to use the U.S. Government car to take a load of us to camp. We were shocked when he stopped in Wheatland and ordered a beer and then asked if any of us wanted one! He did get us to camp safely.
During the war years, camps started on Saturday and ended on Saturday. That way the car bringing up campers could also take home the campers who had just completed their week.
Through the years most campers arrived by car. Cornelia Parrill reported that they always “left after church and took a sack lunch that we ate when we stopped at Hiland. We often stopped and looked around Hell’s Half Acre.”
Gabel wrote, “In 1957 I helped drive campers from Worland—halfway up the mountain my car, a 1951 Mercury, started to heat up. We stopped at the curve with the water faucet and filled up the radiator. To this day whenever I go to Camp Wyoba, I make sure and stop in Casper so my car can cool down.”
Costs of Camp
In 1936 the cost was $15 but you could go for $7.50 if you washed dishes! Several mentioned $10-$15 for the week so the price must have stayed nearly the same for many many years. Today’s campers paid $95 for the week, which included a large camp photo and T-shirt plus board and room! At any cost, Wyoba is one of the best bargains available in camping today in more ways than one.
Special Memories of Camp
Lois Davis wrote: “I attended Camp Wyoba years ago as a teenager and had a wonderful time. All buildings have been replaced since then—it must have been 1936. I think it was quite new at the time… Later my parents worked summers between 1953–1960 with maintenance, etc. Mom had classes in rock hunting and lapidary work. My parents were Edna and George Briggs.”
“Although I do not remember the leader’s name, he led groups hiking on Casper Mountain and taught us about the names of the flowers, trees and grasses. He would tell us some of the history of the area. He also taught us about God’s hand in it all. This leader’s testimony had an impact on my life,” reminisced Janice Hildebrand Fendley.
Cornelia Parrill wrote, “I remember a missionary called ‘Moa’ from Assam, India, was there around 1958 or 1959. He taught us a song in the language of India. I still remember most of the song, but I can’t remember the English translation. So it doesn’t mean much to me except for the flood of wonderful camp memories it brings… One of my favorite spots was the daisy patch or meadow. It seemed like I could really commune with God there, even better than around the campfire.”
Dean of Girls Dott Armstrong wrote of her first year as a camp staffer: “I had never been away from our little country church at Golden Prairie and I was in awe of those ‘young ladies’. By the time the week was over they were ‘my girls’ and how I loved them.”
Cook Rowena Bower wrote: “We really had hungry campers. It was so much fun feeding them—you should have seen them eat French toast. We just couldn’t cook it fast enough. We cooked lots of turkey dinners. I always made the cakes.”
Remember…
…singing “We want a cook’s parade” and “What did Ida hoe? She hoed the Mary-land.” (And for how many years have campers sung that song?)… the missionary from India who came all dressed in white… the ‘dress-up banquet’ on the last night of camp (glad we don’t do that anymore!)… evening campfires… vespers… all the activities that made camp fun… all camp picnic at Beartrap Meadow… talent night… decision night… hikes… baseball games… stunt nights (remember the “sap running through the trees”?)… outdoor chapel, sitting on the logs… hearing the joke about the man looking for a monkey wrench to fix his defunct car, and the Wyoba camper saying, “Well, there’s a sheep ranch up there, and a cattle ranch over yonder, but I never heard of a monkey wrench!”… throwing the bell rope up where it couldn’t be reached or stuffing the bell…
and MORE…
…the night our hike became long when our leader lost his directions… late night kitchen raids… lying out under the stars… the water fights… the Blind Trail… singing at the tables… attending camp when it was just girls (boys went a different week)… WYOBA will always have a special place in my heart… enjoyed the crafts and the patience of the people who taught them… still have the agate necklace I made that first year…
Baptist Women’s House Party
Wyoba was not totally a youth camp. The Baptist women used it for their summer House Party (later called Women’s Conference). The women organized in 1937 at Wyoba with Grace Peabody, Laramie FBC, as their first president. They held meetings at Wyoba from 1964–1973. Because of snow damage to the buildings, they met elsewhere until 1977. From 1977 to 1995 they again used the Wyoba facilities. The last two years they have met at Casper College.
Thelma Outland told how eight women stayed in Casper Cabin when it snowed the beginning of House Party. It was pretty crowded but dry!
Rowena Bower wrote: “I always loved House Party… Prayer time at the fire circle was always so special to me, and meeting all the good friends each year I went.”
Men’s Retreat
Quentin Glass recalled that he, his father, and brother attended a Men’s Retreat at Wyoba probably in the fall of 1941 or 1942. He has an undated picture of the retreat.
Closing
Janice Hildebrand Fendley concluded in her letter: “I believe that camping is a very important ministry in the lives of children. It reaches the needs of children in a way that is unique to anything else the church can do. Camping provides spiritual, social, physical and emotional challenges apart from the child’s family and school environment. With prayer and committed Christian leadership, camping provides a place to be challenged with the gospel, to be loved, and to be discipled.”
Jim Bailey wrote: “Is Christian camping declining? Is Camp Wyoba still needed? Perhaps the pioneer type of camp has declined but the assembly of Christian young people is needed more than ever. Is Camp Wyoba still Needed? Of course, more than ever!”
Resources:
Reaching Toward the Upward Way: A History of Christian Camping in the Rocky Mountain Region, prepared by the Committee on Interpretation of the Capital Funds Campaign, one page article, no date. (Wyoba information mostly supplied by Jim Bailey.)
And many thanks to the following who gave information through phone calls, conversations, pictures, letters, and questionnaires.
Armstrong, Dott—Burns
Bailey, Jim & Audrey—Casper
Bieber, Marguerite Mortensen—Grand Junction, Colorado
Birks, Elaine Hazen—Carlsbad, New Mexico
Bower, Rowena—Worland
Burman, Mary Mortensen—Laramie
Carter, Jackie Forbes Laramie
Collins, Amy Steckman Singleton—Hulett
Davis, Lois L. —Casper
Ditmer, Xelda Stillwell—Worland
Fendley, Janice Hildebrand—LeClaire, Iowa
Gabel, Melvin—Torrington
Glass, Quentin—Longmont, Colorado
Hansen, Sylvia—Laramie
Hildebrand, C. John—Washington, DC
Jones, Don—Laramie
Langdon, Morley—Camp Wyoba
Merrifield, Ken—Montezuma, Arizona
Outland, Thelma—Worland
Parrill, Cornelia Sherwood—Trinidad, Colorado
Prine, Margaret Bolle—Laramie
Sullins, Elaine Christensen—Casper
Note from the Editor:
This is certainly not meant to be a definitive history of Camp Wyoba. It IS a compilation of some of the memories of the place, something I personally feel is important. If you readers have corrections or further information, please send it. It will be necessary to keep adding chapters. This short piece does not deal with the more recent happenings at Wyoba, nor does it deal with the many names of those faithful folks who contribute of themselves year after year. There are many young camp staffers to whom we owe a debt of thanks also. Keep sending us YOUR memories!
And we are still hunting for information on the location of Icebox Cave!
Mary M. Burman
First Baptist Church
1527 East Canby Street
Laramie, Wyoming 82072
FAX (307) 745-4106