"Independence Day really defines Wyoming," Barrasso said. "People here are independent, resilient, self-reliant. There's no place like this for the 4th of July."
This week marks the 110th anniversary of the completion of the Buffalo Bill Dam. Originally called the Shoshone Dam, it was considered a modern engineering marvel.
Four years after "Major Mike" was killed, a statue honoring the Belgian Malinois who sniffed out explosives during the Iraq War was officially unveiled at Wyoming Veterans Memorial Park in Cody.
On this day in 1912, Jackson Pollock was born in Cody Wyoming. He went on to do some incredible things with his life. Such as becoming what some consider to be one of the best painters throughout history right up there with Van Gogh, and Claude Monet.