Book Barn

inside Mad Dog and the Pilgrim                          Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times

If you happen to be on Wyoming's Highway 287 and you follow the arrow on the sign announcing "OLD BOOKS—FRESH EGGS—FOR SALE," you'll wind up at Mad Dog and the Pilgrim, a bookstore in an old two-story, climate-controlled barn. In it, you'll find 70,000 used and antiquarian books, pith helmets, fertility statues, and the occasional gamboling lamb. And, yes, its proprietors are just as unique as you'd expect them to be (story, slideshow): http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-wyoming-book-store-20131125,0,4938241.story#axzz2lnCbgoC1