Sometimes I wish I could have been born in a different era. I wish that I could have been one of the early explorers in North America. Imagine the thrill it must have been for Lewis and Clark to turn the corner of a river and to come across a piece of scenery or an animal previously unknown to the rest of the world. Imagine the feeling that Davey Edward Jackson must have felt when he first settled in the valley that bares his name, Jackson Hole.

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Life would be much more enjoyable if we could all name our prices on items we buy. You could go down to your local Porsche dealer, for example, and buy that shiny red one for, oh, say, $3.00 paid out in 100 easy installments of three cents each. Or you could come to this Web site and decide that you would like to spend $1,000 to read each post. Or, well, I like that last idea a lot, but it isn’t going to happen. You have to pay at ... [read more]