The 1880s settlers in Never Sweat, Wyoming, enjoyed the warm, dry winds that flowed across town and the great Wind River. Hunters and trappers, including Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and Butch Cassidy, had their field day scoping out big game species such as bighorn sheep, elk and black bears on bordering mountains like Whiskey Mountain. But when the postal service insisted the name Never Sweat just wouldn’t work, the government changed the name to Dubois (pronounced “Dew-boys”). Today, this


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