Some Gave All: Carbon County Wyoming

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Overland Trail Marker, Carbon County Wyoming

This is the second time recently we've put up an Overland Trail marker here. The other one was in Albany County.

For some reason, the southerly route of the Overland Trail always takes me by surprise. It really shouldn't however, as in this part of the state the Union Pacific Railroad isn't far away, and it took the same basic route through here.

For that matter, so did the Lincoln Highway. So obviously, the southern route wasn't a bad one, and it was competitive with the Oregon Trail.

This marker is just north of Saratoga Wyoming. While I don't know for sure, I suspect the two track visible in this photo is the actual trail. In many places in Wyoming the trails remain quite visible.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Carbon County World War Two Memorial, Rawlins Wyoming.

This is the Carbon County Wyoming World War Two monument. The monument lists every serviceman from the county who served in World War Two, separately noting those who lost their lives in the war. The memorial is located at the Carbon County Courthouse.

Some Gave All

Some Gave All is one of a series of our blogs which are basically photographic in nature. The main blog, the "hub", is Holscher's Hub, which is a general photo site. The general blog that we have that receives the most viewing attention is Lex Anteinternet, which started off, and which also remains, a blog for the study of historical topics of the 1890-1920 time frame, but which also deals with about everything else. Our daily Wyoming history blog is Today In Wyoming's History.

We also have four specific photograph blogs with dedicated topics, those being Churches of the West, Courthouses of the West, Railhead and Painted Bricks. Those blogs are dedicated to photographs of the topics their title indicates (more or less). This blog, while a history minded one, fits into the latter category. It depicts monuments, mostly war memorials, that we've run across in our travels.

Many of these photos, indeed probably all of them, were taken as the opportunity arose. It'd be rare here to find a photo in which we had gone out specifically to photograph the memorial. Because of that, they will not have a professional quality, as we have to take the monument, including the light, weather, and other conditions, as we find them. Still, that serves the purpose, which is to record monuments and memorials that otherwise would likely be missed by most people.