![]() An artist and author, she crafted an elaborate lore for the mountain - that the mountain was inhabited by witches - and drew into her tales the Casper community, culminating every year in a ritual on the Summer Solstice. Forsling homesteaded what is now Crimson Dawn Park in the 1930s. But I believe the stories told by Elizabeth "Neal" Forsling about the folklore of the mountain seal solidify this. If Casper itself (due to oil or wind or Dick Cheney's legacy) is ugly and profane, the mountain is beautiful, sacred. Unlike Wyoming's more well-known Teton Mountains, Casper Mountain is old, its buttes rounded with age. It's a short drive - just up Wolcott to Casper Mountain Road. ![]() But there was definitely something about the history - politically, socially, and environmentally - of the oil industry that made us all a little crazy. Legend has it that the Native Americans opted not to settle the area as the winds there cause madness - ok, my friends and I might've invented that legend. ![]() I grew up in Casper, Wyoming, a place that, as one might expect from the hometown of Dick Cheney, wasn't exactly a site of peace and solace.
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