EVENTS June 27 - Helpmate Garage Sale, 334-3416 or 334-2475 for additional information. June 26 thru 28 - Lusk Golf Course Open Tournament. June 27 - Alumni and Charlie Chamber Days, Fairgrounds/Downtown, all day. Garage Sale at Multifamily Parking lot on Main Street, next to Subway, 8:00-???. Garage Sale at Episcopal Church, 8:00 proceeds going to the Outreach Fund which offers assistance to local families with emergencies. Book sale at Niobrara County Library, 8:00 a.m., ice cream social at 11:00 a.m. Free barbecue at Lusk State Bank, 11:00. Stagecoach Museum open all day. Alumni Banquet, Niobrara County Fairgrounds. June 26 & 27 - Jail & Bail. Get your favorite person arrested now for $5, another $5 gets them bailed out. All proceeds to 4th of July Celebration. June 28 - Community Church, Washington Park, 10 a.m., First Baptist Church 90th Birthday celebration, 2:00. July 1 - Free Community Dinner, Episcopal Church, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Served and prepared by the Niobrara County Library Foundation. Sponsored by Mustard Seed Money. July 4 - Community 4th of July Celebration and fireworks show at Niobrara County Fairgrounds. July 10 & 11 - Legend of Rawhide activities.

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Back by popular demand! Gold in the Black Hills! Letters from men in many states began to pour into the little frontier town, which because of its rapid growth, called itself the "Magic City of the Plains." In a brief time, two thousand men were booked, pledged to join the expedition at Cheyenne, to arm with repeating guns, with one thousand rounds of ammunition, and to supply themselves with six months’ rations. In support of the Sioux treaty, however, President U.S. Grant caused an order to be issued prohibiting the expedition from going to the Black Hills. Later the order was modified and the men received permission to go as a group to the South Pass country, since that was not in the restricted Indian area. Under Kuykendall’s leadership the party which dwindled to one hundred and twenty men, after the shift in destination, left Cheyenne and went as far north as the Meeteetse country. Among them was Henry Comstock, discoverer of the famous Nevada lode, which bears his name. They failed to make a strike. The unsuccessful outcome of the Kuykendall expedition did not decrease the gold fever in Cheyenne. With stories continually filtering through about individuals who had gone into the Black Hills and who had made rich strikes, Cheyenne businessmen began to grubstake miners to prospect territory nearer at hand, until the Hills should be opened. During the early ‘seventies, prospectors went into the Laramie mountains (often referred to as the Black Hills by early travelers), into the far reaches of the Medicine Bow range, and also along Horseshoe creek, and La Bonte. Not once thought did they forget that the real Land of Lure lay off to the northeast, just beyond their reach. Cheyenne newspapers kept the coals of desire fanned to glowing embers by constantly urging the government to open up the country north of the Platte river to exploration and settlement. The word which Charley Reynolds brought to the world via For Laramie on that August day in 1874, was what the whole country wanted to hear. It was a signal for renewed attacks on the barred gates of the Forbidden Land of Gold. L Cheyenne, over night, became a seething cauldron of unrest and expectant activity. ..... (Continued next edition)

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