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Where neighbors help neighbors, where the measure of a man is his character, where the hearts of everyday heroes reflect the timeless spirit of America.

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  • Kathie Nomura 2 years ago
    I really liked Code of the West. A great promotion for Wyoming because it is so true
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  • Cary Alburn 2 years ago
    Love it! I live in Colorado now, but I still think of myself as a Wyomingite (grew up in Cheyenne, graduated from UW, lived in Wyoming until 1996). Wonderful video.
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  • Georgia Carmin 2 years ago
    I loved this film--born and raised on a ranch near Orin Junction, I appreciate Wyoming and the values of the people of this great State, this little heaven on earth.
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  • Cole Dryden 2 years ago
    Wyoming will always be home.
  • Judi Fogle 2 years ago
    Born and raised in Wyoming, Lusk, Niobrara County. What a Great Place Wyoming is, the world could learn alot from us. Loved the video and it was nice to see Al Simpson, what a legend he is. Wish he was back in Washington!
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  • Nicki Lindahl 2 years ago
    Wow. Beautiful. Good job. I'm so proud to live in this great state!
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  • Jim Morgan 2 years ago
    Sounds like it's great to live in Wyoming - unless you're a native american that is.
  • Shawnn Lively 2 years ago
    Mr. Morgan,

    Unless you're a Native American? What's that all about? Do you live here? Doesn't sound like it, with your comment "sounds like a great place to live". Have you visited? Do you even have the slightest idea about what kind of people you have just slighted?

    As a Wyoming Native, I find your statement offensive, lacking credentials, and just not well thought out.

    Just my humble opinion
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  • Holly Sullivan 2 years ago
    Mr. Morgan, I live on the reservation and the indians are well taken care of and would live happily if they so chose to. They are not a happy people. Wyoming is wonderful and you should come and visit some time!
  • Walter Crowhorse 2 years ago
    we are taken care of??? sounds like we are in a zoo or something like that! we are a happy people, how many natives do you know from the reservation?we came here by the conditions set forth in an agreement with the US government, you should thank them for allowing you to live on their land, and even if you dont live on the reservation, thats how you acquired the land you are living on.
    this video mentions wyoming as the equality state, equal only to non indians, its very unfair to the native americans who reside on the reservation! neighboring towns would not survive without our patronage.
    wyoming is wonderful place, but it also has a past that is not so wonderful to the original inhabitants of the land!
  • Brooke Griffin 2 years ago
    Mr Crowhorse, I am at a loss for words for you. I am from Wyoming I live very close to a "reservation".
    What part of "losing a war" is not getting through to you. How about we give every Iraqi a monthly settlement for losing, I don't need to point out anymore of what I am getting at from that point of view. It has been devastatingly harmful for the United States to provide you with rewards for doing nothing. ( YOU did NOT give us this land, we took it) Your children do not go to college they do not better themselves, they live like pampered spoiled rich kids at the cost of all tax payers. It's up to you as a parent to provide them a path to bettering themselves. They do NOT take care of the homes that are provided. WE all know you respect things more that you had to earn yourself. It's time YOU became an American. Wean your Children off of the American Governement stop being a burden to society. I know you have much to offer with your history and its time to stand as my equal. Stop Blaming others or the times we live in or Americans. Stand up take pride and make yourselves successful.
  • Walter Crowhorse 2 years ago
    Ms Griffin
    I am appalled at your lack of education, you should return your high school diploma and the money that you gave for your higher education, if you had the effort to that far in your educational pursuits!
    Do you realize it was a CONDITIONAL SURRENDER and not UNCONDITIONAL as with Japanese and Germans of WWII, or is that you do not understand conditions? If you realize they DO NOT reward us for doing nothing, everyday they, the US government is trying to abrogate the treaties that they signed with us. does your level of education allow you to know what abrogate means? Do you know of the supreme court ruling of 1977? (Treaties were agreements between sovereign nations that granted special peace, alliance, trade, and land rights to the newcomers. Indian governments used treaties to confirm and retain rights such as the sovereign right of self-government, fishing and hunting rights and jurisdictional rights over their lands (Kickingbird, et al. 1980). Treaties did not, as is commonly assumed, grant rights to Indians from the United States. Tribes ceded certain rights to the United States government and reserved the rights they never gave away)JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS (TREATIES DID NOT, AS COMMONLY ASSUMED, GRANT RIGHTS TO INDIANS FROM THE UNITED STATES. TRIBES CEDED CERTAIN RIGHTS TO THE UNITED STATES AND RESERVED THE RIGHTS THEY NEVER GAVE AWAY!)if not maybe you should allow some time out of your schedule and educate yourself on what a treaty is and how it is paramount with the US constitution. If you realize any of this, thats the only promise that was kept, the taking of the land. I know many of the griffins, cot, herschel and some their sons, they are good men, but they should have educated you on where you live and how you received your land.
    You should allow yourself some time out of your busy schedule of writing an ignorant and unresearched response and learn about the history of treaties by the U.S. government and Native American tribes on whose land you now reside upon.
    or perhaps you know this and this is where this unresolved anger comes from?
  • DeeDee Parker 2 years ago
    Walter, I'm really sorry that you have such a huge chip on your shoulder. If you don't know, it's 2010. Why keep looking back? Move forward and be proud of your heritage no matter what happened in the past.
  • Brooke Griffin 1 year ago
    Mr. Crowhorse, Let's look at reality,..... not words copied and pasted Even with my "limited Education" I too can cut and paste history here from any guide or book I choose. Take a good look at your race, in fact I will too, go to almost any reservation and you see what you have become. If you were so intelligent as to "not" give up cetain rights to lands and other entities because you conditionally surrendered, why are you such failures now. Oh wait..blame the white man...All I see is drunks and drug addicts, Yes this can be seen anywhere in the USA, but it is appalling at your doorstep. Make your children be responsible make them earn their own living. They will become better people. You did not give "conditional surrender" we gave it to you! So that you exist today. I did not win this war against you, you didn't lose it against me. Something has got to give for your race to be successful. I do not have all the answers, if you as a nation are not happy with the trillions given to you, lets have a "do over". You scream to keep and maintain your own laws on your own land. People fear being on "your" land at dark, knowing they will be murdered or raped and no justice will happen..it's called savage...I repeat let's have a do over. There won't be any fingers left to point and blame the white man. I hate losing, everyone does. But you make it worse by continually crying about it. If honor is such a high characteristic in your culture. Learn how to lose with grace and become an American.
  • Froggie Legs 1 year ago
    Wow, I am shocked that some people can be so blatantly rude and narrow-minded. As a white woman who lived in Lander for a time, I have nothing but the utmost respect for the Native American cultures. Mr. Crowhorse is absolutely correct and deserves approbation for trying to educate the intolerant, prejudiced people who obviously learned nothing from history. I would be honored to live and work in Wyoming again, and as a teacher I hope to do just that.
  • Viola Lee 1 month ago
    Attention, Brooke and DeeDee: It's called GENOCIDE. That's what was done to the aboriginal inhabitants of this continent. Nothing less.

    "Losing a war" is insignificant compared the near-extermination of the Native American peoples. And for many whites of the 16th-20th centuries, extermination was openly the goal.

    I guess there will always be a thick stratum of retards in any population. You two are clearly part of it.
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  • Jeremy Kaiser 2 years ago
    Wyoming is Awesome!!!
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  • Kent Harker 2 years ago
    I need to correct the number of incorporated cities and towns in Wyoming. The correct number is 99. I know because I am on the Town Council of Star Valley Ranch, WY, the newest and 99th. incorporated town in the state. We incorporated in November 2005.
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  • laurence Vernhes 2 years ago
    Hey, I liked the video. I am married with someone from Wyoming and have been there a few times.
    I agree people are friendly and good at heart. We would love to return and live there, but where are the jobs?
    Wyoming is a dream, and not everyone can make a living there.
  • Justin 2 years ago
    There are jobs here as long as you are not picky! No it is not the wall street type of job but you can get by on what is being payed. I live in a town of about 600 people and there are jobs to be had, just most people think these jobs are below them.
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  • elam zook 2 years ago
    Wyoming is a wonderful state; I really love it but this video is super saccharine sweet and not entirely realistic. Yes, there is a live and let live attitude here but it isn't perfect and it doesn't always work for everyone. If you aren't conservative or white (in skin color or attitude) or heterosexual or love Dick Cheney and his minions, well, the code of the west won't work for you all of the time. It is kind of like don't ask don't tell. If you keep your mouth shut or tow the line, it will work for you. If you have a differing opinion, it won't work so well. This varies from town to town and by region in Wyoming, of course. In Laramie, you can have a different opinion and get by, in a very small town, you have to watch your step and your back if you don't fit the mold.
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  • EJ Waits 2 years ago
    I'm a native of Wyoming. It's good. Sure it doesn't talk about the negative, but so what? There is no perfect place. I've been to all 50 states and a few foreign countries and I've found things to like everywhere... and no shortage of things to dislike. Nevertheless, if you are willing to take responsibility for yourself, help others in need and be a caring human being, Wyoming (or anywhere else) can be a great place. If you want the world to hand you a life of ease, you won't find anywhere that suits you. As an Indian, there are a lot worse places you could be. The rez doesn't have it all, but it has enough if you work at it. It all comes back to you and what you are willing to experience.
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  • Judy Powell 2 years ago
    I like to consider myself a native of Wyoming, being here for 36 years. I grew up in the SF Bay area and when I couldn't take the crowds and smog anymore I looked for a new place to live. In my travels I found the people of Wyoming to be the friendliest. I love the wide open spaces and remoteness of Wyoming.

    I live on the reservation and am thankful to the natives for sharing their beautiful land with us. I wasn't for the casino but with it comes a generosity from the native americans. They share a free meal and $5.00 weekly with all elders, not just their own.

    I wouldn't trade my life here in Wyoming for all the riches the world had to offer because I'm as rich here as anyone could be.
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  • Joe Rosenberg 1 year ago
    I was born in Brooklyn, New York. My mom was from Wyoming. I spent every summer there. When I was old enough I was put to work on a ranch in Thunder Basin. Not a dude ranch. A ranch. And wow-did I learn about life. I learned to straighten a nail, not use a new one. I remember days on horseback with the rain coming down-trying to gather cattle to bring them down to winter pasture. I wanted to quit-give up-go back to the house-get warm and dry. The rancher I was with never said a word about the conditions. We just kept on. And I never gave up. And in the summers. Hot. No water with us. Yeah-I even drank out of a dike. Did I learn the cowboy code? Yeah-I think so. I learned to never give up. Make do with what you have. Finish. Sleep early-rise early. It has served me well through the years. Some would call me a success. I am happy with my life. I owe it all to that rancher-his attitude-his outlook. I go back every chance I get. Wyoming got in my blood and never left. Never will. It is where my heart is.
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  • Deborah Costet 1 year ago
    well, Interesting reading. I too, moved to Wyoming during the oil boom, for my hubbys work. I have lived so many places, that I have much to compare with, simply by experience. Now you have to understand, that I did not live in flourishing, modern towns..I lived in small towns.
    Let me tell you what I found about Wyoming. I was shocked at first, to see how unfriendly the first town was..Rawlins.. they say it's the armpit of Wyoming and I see why. Old residents, whose kids do nothing but live off their parents and they let them, kids are pregnant by 15/16 and more drug addicts and drunks than anything..and these are not indians, they are white kids. The town provided nothing for youths so they just did drugs and had sex.. was the most unfriendly, discusting town I have ever seen..in morals, and pride. Town council seemed somewhat corrupt..however, one of the best Sheriffs Dept I have ever seen.

    Saratoga, was the opposite..the cutest most friendly town ever.. I would live there in a heartbeat... Loved everything about it, exept police dept a bit "political"and "shady" and the fact you had to drive 2 hrs plus just to go to walmart lol a True Wyoming Gem....

    Riverton, my next place to live...alot of sex, early pregnancy, drugs and drunk kids..again..nothing provided for kids to do regularly..so they drink, have sex , do drugs... A town that doesn't support it's town..doesn't support it's chamber..very cliquey..gossipy, and values way below standard...not one for "helping they neighbor"..found it in general "unfriendly"...although I did make alot of friends there for me...nice people too..and they felt the same way...
    Riverton next to reservation, and no, the indians are not thought of nicely at all..but then..they do cause trouble and do their share of drug and drinking, and there are alot of "troubled" indians.

    In spite of the unfriendliness, the back stabbing, and gossiping..the friends I made there.. I would live there again.. I did like the small town feel, the safety issue, the fact that noone worried about designer jeans per say..made it a care free place to live...
    I think living in Cheyenne would be nice..a bit more ammenities, while still the small town feel...
    But just wanted to point out that no, Indians aren't treated nicely per say..but is that justified in alot of cases? yes.....
    Are people soooo friendly they help thy neighbor? well, maybe some, but I think that was How the west used to be, more than how it is now. The youth have grown up and taken over, and the youth of that generation, was not passed all those "good handshake " values....
    And I do love the real cowboys..it was cool to see...
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  • Joan Johnson 1 year ago
    I am from the great state of Wyoming, and unfortunately had to move away. But Wyoming is still my home, and I love this "Code of the West" It is so true, and I hope to call Wyoming home again someday.
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  • Krake Darkmoon 1 year ago
    I only joined here to say I completely agree with Froggy Legs. Mr. Crowhorse, don't waste your time and energy arguing with these people. In the time of our first African American president and liberal youth, these people are very very threatened and do not want to lose their privileged lives. They have no clue what your world is like. Chip on the shoulder? Lost the war, get over it? What a bunch of selfish non-thinkers. Namaste.
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