I'm going to copy word for word this card. She sent it in an envelope and has written on both sides. She also included this vintage card. I think she has a great story to tell: I live in the Mile High City of Denver, Colorado. Colorado is a 'vote by mail' state, which is oddly rare amongst the 50 US states. We voted to have our ballots mailed to all registered voters. Thank goodness we can fill them out at home because Colorado's ballots are l-o-n-g. Citizens can put ballot issues via enough signatures and then the entire electorate votes for them. It's been mixed results. Sometimes it's a check on representative government, at other times it is issues that should be left to professionals.  One thing that has never changed is the trusty blue box. even with excellent regular mail delivery, my neighbours and I were distraught that we didn't have a Blue Box on the corner while an apartment building was constructed. It's back now. We like using it because we...

A great card from the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming.  William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was born in 1948 in Iowa Territory. Soon after he was born the family moved back to Cody's father's hometown in Toronto Township, Upper Canada (Mississauga , Ontario today). Cody's father was anti-slavery so when they moved back to the United States, he would speak out against it. This led to death threats.  Eleven year old Bill had to take a job as a "boy extra" with a freight carrier after his father died. At 14 he decided to travel to California to mine for gold. On the way, though, he joined up with the Pony Express. Cody joined the Union Army during the American Civil War and worked as a teamster with Company H, 7th Kansas Cavalry. He was discharged soon after the war's end. He re-joined the army in 1868 as a dispatch rider, and then as the Chief of Scouts for the 5th Cavalry Regiment and 3rd Cavalry.  He won the Medal of Honor in 1872 during the I...