I have been hearing about Mel Stonehouse since I arrived here, and he’s become a legend in my mind. Many of the colorful Cody characters passed away long enough ago that finding people that knew them is hard, but lots of people remember Mel Stonehouse. Orphaned at the age of two when his parents froze […]
For more than seventy-five years, Cody, Wyoming, is the only place in the world that puts on a rodeo every evening of the summer, June 1 – August 31. In a new book, author and journalist Lew Freedman chronicles one full season of the sport in the town known as the “Rodeo Capital of the […]
The town of Cody experiences seasons—a cycle that parallels the natural world on its circular journey through space. In winter, while plants are in slumber and creatures lay low, those residents who didn’t fly south are hibernating indoors, living—like squirrels—on stores they’ve managed to cache. It’s a time for fixing the equipment, or knitting something […]