News From: NPEA Wyoming Division
CASPER, Wyo. — The Casper City Council gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up Tuesday to the project of acquiring a large collection of Pony Express artifacts, documents and art to be displayed at an expanded Fort Caspar Museum.
The consultants behind the study heard Tuesday said that heritage tourism related to sites and artifacts of Westward Expansion is on the rise, and that turning Casper into a Pony Express tourist destination would easily double attendance at the museum and add over $3 million annually to the local economy. Read more…