Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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Outside the thrill of competition, the best and most emotional moments of the Olympics are the medal ceremonies, where champions and their supporters revel in their victories and take home a reminder of their monumental achievements. Paris is no exception. Designed by luxury jeweler Chaumet and made by France's official mint, Monnaie de Paris, each of the winners' medals is infused with 18 grams of iron directly from the Eiffel Tower—a reward for athletic achievement and a memorable token of P...
On June 19th, 1865, Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas with news of the Emancipation Proclamation, liberating more than 250,000 people enslaved in that state. Despite President Lincoln's issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1st, 1863, freedom for the enslaved was not immediate. It took more than two years of war to free all of the people held in bondage in the rebellious states. Meanwhile, people enslaved in the border states that remained loyal to the Union through the...