Cowboy pickup drivers speeding through mountains and prairies

Is it possible that you can learn more about your home state by spending some time in and traveling through some adjoining western states?

Maybe. Here goes:

In Wyoming, a person often contrasts the flat high prairie of southeastern Wyoming with the mountainous high country of the northwest part of the state.

It is almost as if a diagonal line were drawn across our big rectangle with the goal of making the place half prairie and half mountain.

Folks involved with agriculture on the high prairies sometimes have different attitudes and different agendas than those who come from the higher climes....