Western communities, many from their earliest beginnings, celebrated our nation’s Independence Day in their own way, with picnics, music, foot races, buckin’ horses and horse races and food. The annual celebration has always been about flying the flag proudly when they exhibited it both indoor and outdoors. The main modes of transportation of each era continued to be festooned with the ol’ red, white and blue decorations befitting such an occasion.
Most of the families…