with the help of our local cable partner, charter, we toured various sites in old cheyenne with lori van pelt, author of "capital characters of old cheyenne." >> features some of the interesting people in cheyenne's history. and i focused on the era from the transcontinental railroad, the building of that, 1860s into the early 1900s and a little bit beyond that. but i wanted to show a cross-section of some of the interesting people who were here and some of the things that they did. i think there are many misconceptions about wyoming's history x that a's what makes it -- and that's what makes it fun to be a historian this wyoming. i think they don't realize how significant wyoming is in the nation's history, and they don't realize that women had the right to vote here in territorial days, and that was quite controversial. and they don't realize how influential wyoming can be. and people from wyoming aren't just old west type people. you meet some of those people, which is fine, and they're very intelligent and smart, but there were also some political influences that wyoming made, and wyoming