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involved. Now the CongressionalBudget Office estimates that in thenext few years 2.3 million retireeswill lose Medicare Advantage bene-fits.Congress allowed the changes inAdvantage Plans; so it’s too late towin this round. But it’s not too late towin the larger battle. Washingtoninterests don’t want to have an opendebate between government-run andindividually-controlled health care.Instead, they hold Medicare orother programs hostage for a politicalagenda. In the vote I just mentioned,the Majority Leader used the threat of Medicare physician cuts to get specialinterest groups to attack people likeme who have tried to fix physicianreimbursement for years.I encourage you to share yourviews with elected officials.________________
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By Peggy Hunt 
C
heyenne, Wyoming, has a wildand woolly history that goesback to the days when the UnionPacific Railroad was building thetranscontinental line across theWestern frontier.In 1867, the Army establishedFort D.A. Russell, whereCheyenne is now, to providesupplies and protect the railroadworkers from Indian raids. FortRussell was later renamed FortWarren for early WyomingGovernor Francis E. Warren.Cheyenne was one of thosehell-on-wheels towns that sprangup along the railroad route.Gamblers, prostitutes and all kindsof unsavory characters followedthe railroad crews, eager to taketheir hard-earned money any waythey could, sometimes by killingthem in dark alleys.Long before the railroadarrived, prehistoric Folsom peopleand plains Indian tribes had inhab-ited southern Wyoming. In thevery early 1800s, fur trapperscame through and held rendezvousin the mountains to the west.In 1860 cattlemen beganbringing great herds of Texas long-horns into Wyoming, following thefamous Texas Trail through easternColorado near Brush, north to PineBluff east of Cheyenne, and all theway to Montana.Men like Charles Goodnight,Oliver Loving and Jesse Chisholmbrought the herds to Colorado andWyoming, blazing trails thatwould become famous in the West.In 1860 John Wesley Iliff initi-ated the cattle business in theregion and bought more than25,000 head from Goodnight overa period of years, grazing themthroughout southeastern Wyomingand northeastern Colorado.In the 1870s and 1880s, famousoutfits like the Swan Land andCattle Company were established,and the Cheyenne Club was builtat Cheyenne in 1880.The Cheyenne Club wasfamous for several reasons. It wasa lavish, expensive building unlikeanything else in the West—anexclusive place for wealthy cattlebarons and investors from the Eastand Great Britain.Millionaires and royal familiesinvested in cattle then because of high profits due to the huge tractsof free range land available. TheCheyenne Club was their meetingplace, with its European winecellar, hand-carved furniture,velvet drapes and lavish meals thatordinary cowboys couldn’t dreamof.Members attended social func-tions in tuxedos and their ladieswore evening gowns. Most spokewith a British accent, not aWestern drawl. The club hadprivate rooms where memberscould conveniently arrange meet-ings with women.The club was also the placewhere Wyoming’s cattle baronsplanned the Johnson County Warin 1892 to drive out small rancherswho were taking up homesteadclaims on range land and buildingfences.This was the period when hiredguns like Tom Horn worked for theWyoming Stock GrowersAssociation, which was formed atthe Cheyenne Club. In 1892 thecattlemen brought in nearly 50gunmen and offered them $50 forevery homesteader they killed.That sounds like an exaggera-tion, but it actually happened. Thecattlemen even provided thegunmen with a list of whom tokill.The gunmen shot two settlers,and then all hell broke loose.Local cowboys and citizensquickly organized a posse of over100 men, got the Army to send insoldiers, and in a short timecaptured the gunmen and threwthem in jail.The arrogant cattle barons hadunderestimated the pioneers of Wyoming. Sitting in the splendorof the Cheyenne Club, the baronshad planned the most despicablerange war in history.But they didn’t know what realWyoming cowboys were like.________________
COVER PICTURE: Wild horseswest of Cheyenne in theContinental Divide Basin near Rawlins. Senior Voice photo.
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The Cheyenne Club in the late 1800s. Wyoming History Museum.
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