On Monday, May 24, the Pahaska Corral of Westerners will host a presentation by photographer and author Dennis Davis, who will discuss his new book “Wyoming — Perspectives on a ‘small town with long streets.’” The lecture will be held at the Governors Room in the Irma Hotel in Cody, beginning with a no-host dinner at 6 p.m. and followed by the presentation around 7 p.m. Davis will be selling and signing copies of his work after his talk.
Both the meal and the program are open to the public. However, due to limited seating, those who wish to attend are asked to RSVP by Friday by emailing Lynn Houze at ljhcody@tctwest.net.
Davis worked as a newspaper reporter in the state beginning in 1979 and taught journalism for 15 years at Northwest College.
“The book and the photographs result from more than four years of traveling around Wyoming as the energy industry changed,” said Davis.
Photographs captured the variety of Wyoming’s landscape and wildlife through the seasons. The book also examines how well Wyoming lives up to its Equality State motto.
“As a Wyoming native, I wanted to document the state through interviews with a diverse group of residents,” Davis said. Interviews include political figures such as former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, his brother Pete Simpson, former Gov. Mike Sullivan, former Secretary of State Kathy Karpan and former Jackson Mayor Sara Flitner. The title derives from Sullivan’s description of the state as “a small town with unusually long streets.”
Readers get a view of Wyoming’s last drive-in movie theater, pistol manufacturer Freedom Arms, what life is like in Smoot and the historic Willow Creek Ranch at the Hole in the Wall west of Kaycee. The book traces Wyoming’s prehistoric past at Fossil Butte National Monument and in the fossils of Pleistocene animals at Natural Trap Cave north of Lovell. It takes readers to the four corners of rectangular Wyoming as well as community celebrations — from Don King Days, the Northern Arapaho powwow in Ethete, the Green River Rendezvous, South Pass City Gold Rush Days, Encampment’s Woodchoppers Jamboree to Cheyenne Frontier Days. Davis’s book also examines recent declines in the coal industry through the eyes of City of Gillette officials, Gillette coal miners and University of Wyoming energy economist Rob Godby.
The Pahaska Corral of Westerners is the local chapter of Westerner International, an organization dedicated to stimulating interest and research in the history of the American West.
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