Laurel 4th of July

Laurel 4th of July

Region full of July 4th activities

LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff Miles City artist Alice "Bobi" Walden paints red, white and blue designs on Jasper Heins as his sister Alice watches at McIntosh Art Gallery Wednesday. Walden has a show of her metal sculptures at the gallery.

Cody 4th of July parade

Spence Lenz, left, Deb Spence, and Hope Sheets, right, chat before the start of Cody's 4th of July Stampede Parade last year. Sheets, 69, said it was her 24th consecutive parade appearance.

Add pop to fun, colorful 4th of July dessert

Pop Rocks candies give an explosive taste sensation to Firecracker Cupcakes, which are baked in coffee cups. Kids will enjoy helping garnish the treats.

Cody 4th of July parade

Hope Sheets and her pink dog trail behind the Shoshone River Jazz Band, a dixieland group that performs from a boat each year in Cody's Stampede Parade.

Cody 4th of July parade

Dennis Haugen, who has appeared as Long Tall Uncle Sam for more than three decades, shakes hands with spectators Friday. Haugen and hundreds of others will repeat the same parade today as part of Cody's Fourth of July Stampede Parade.

Cody 4th of July parade

Pete Lovelace drives a 1915 Model T automobile for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center's entry in Cody's Stampede Parade.

Cody 4th of July parade

The Cody Biker Chix Brigade, a group of women who have ridden mountain bikes together since 1996, performs a conceptual bicycle-oriented interpretive dance routine during Cody's Stampede Parade.

Cody 4th of July parade

Skiers from the Sleeping Giant Ski Area ride chair lifts mounted on a construction fork lift.

Cody 4th of July parade

The Ralston Rejects celebrate 100 years of Western outlaws with a parade float that includes kids portraying criminals in a frontier jail.

Cody 4th of July parade

Parade pooper-scooper Michael Pelletier walks the route with a raccoon on his shoulder.

Cody 4th of July parade

Pam Menuey shows off her miniature horse, Chipmunk.

Red Lodge 4th of July

The Red Lodge Home of Champions Rodeo parade begins at noon followed by the rodeo at 3 p.m.

Red Lodge Rodeo

Fireworks store

Helen Deutsch, left, and Dana Wilhelm load a shopping cart with fireworks at Baachachik Fireworks on the Crow Indian Reservation just outside of Hardin on Thursday, July 2, 2009. The women help put on a fireworks show at the Silver Spur Bar in Ranchester, Wyoming. Many of the fireworks sold on the reservation are unavailable elsewhere.