Excerpt from Proceedings and Collections: Of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, 1918The year 1918 has been one of unusual disturbances; our Country entered actively into the Great World War, and members of our Society did their full duty by enlistment in the army, by work on committees and by contributions to all Liberty Loans and other war funds. These things took the attention of our entire community - almost to the expulsion of other matters. Towards the end of the year we were visited by an epidemic of influenza, which was more widespread and fatal than any disease which our country had ever before experienced.Under these circumstances all business and social matters were very much affected and thrown out of their normal balance.Notwithstanding these disturbances, our society kept its doors open, except for a short period, and carried on its work as well as was possible.During the year we held our four regular quarterly meet ings, at each of which a paper was read, and they were attended by audiences with which we were much gratified because of their size and interest.The papers which were read at these meetings are published in this volume, the issue of which has been some what delayed by the unusual conditions existing during the year.Now that the Great War is over, we can look forward to getting back to the normal and we hope our society will continue to increase and grow in interest and usefulness, as seems probable from the increased number of visitors to our rooms which we notice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.