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Dreamers & Schemers: Profiles from Carbon County, Wyoming's Past (Dreamers and Schemers Series)

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As a former Carbon County resident who is familiar with all the people mentioned in this book, I know the author did a super job of telling their story. The author paints vivids pictures of each characture and relates their stories in an easy to read style. Great gift for anyone who loves the lore of Wyoming.

In "Dreamers and Schemers", by Lori Van Pelt, the reader is given a front row seat into the personal lives of some of the more colorful men and women that carved out and settled Carbon County, Wyoming. The author has done a phenomenal job of pulling together the history of these people and bringing it to life for the reader. If you've ever wondered what it would have been like to be one of the first white men to walk in the Wind River Range or what the outlaws were really like back in the old west, this is the book for you.

Entertaining and accurate history of characters from Carbon County's past including outlaws, copper kings, mountain men. I throroughly enjoyed this.

Vivid biographical glimpses of thiry-one colorful personalities who helped shape Carbon County's historical legacy are informative and fun to read. Delightful descriptive accounts make the reader feel as if they had been on the scene and had met the characters personally.