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3 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Casper, Wyoming

Updated April 5, 2024

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Wyoming’s Casper Mountain is home to witches who appear once a year, on Midsummer’s Eve, thanks to the rich imagination of writer and artist Neal Forsling.

On Wyoming's Casper Mountain, the Crimson Dawn Witches Appear Every Midsummer's Eve

Nearly a century ago, writer and artist Neal Forsling's magical tales began a local legacy that celebrates family, nature, and imagination.
by Michelle Harris
Stranger Horse’s pipe-tomahawk.

An Engraved Tomahawk Offers a New, Native History of a Battle

The weapon may have belonged to a Lakotan warrior named Stranger Horse.
by Sabrina Imbler

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