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

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Summary: Accurate history, well-told
Review: Entertaining and accurate history of characters from Carbon County's past including outlaws, copper kings, mountain men. I throroughly enjoyed this.

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Summary: Front row seat to the Wyoming West
Review: 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.

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Summary: Front row seat to the Wyoming West
Review: 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.

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Summary: Brings history to life!
Review: 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.