Asking for help with Osage

I’ve been taking the News Letter Journal to the newspaper machine in Osage for a few weeks, and as I drove through the community, I became intrigued with the history of this once booming oil town.
My interests have been peaked by the bits of information I have read and heard from a few people who live or have lived there in the past.
My curiosity began two years ago when Don Thorson took me to meet Dave Paulley. Paulley died at age 89 on Oct. 2, 2020, a few months after I met him, and he was one of the finest artists and most interesting people I have ever met. His realistic oil paintings of World War II planes with the fantastic cloud formations were eye-opening for me. 
You don’t have to live in a big city surrounded by fine art galleries and museums to master that craft as well as he did.
But those beautiful paintings seemed to be in stark contrast to the Osage I saw, and that has produced conflicts in my thought processes. I’ve tried to reconcile my vision of the town I’ve heard about as it once was with how it stands now, and it hasn’t been easy.
I have come across some writings, but there are plenty of gaps. In the book “Weston County, Wyoming – The First Hundred Years” (Weston County Heritage Group and Curtis Media Corp. 1988), scant information is available. While it points to the three townsites, the Nefsy, the Sparks Addition and the Osage townsite in an article written by Mrs. Mark Sheehan in 1932, it leaves many empty spaces. Other stories I’ve read don’t fill those spaces either, and actually leave me even more confused. Welding the present and the past together has never been this hard for me, and because I want to resolve this ambivalence, I am asking for your help.
As we approach the fall, I hope to do a couple of stories about Osage, but I’m not looking to tell my story because I don’t have one other than delivering papers to the machine each week. 
So I want your stories. 
If you have lived in Osage or have pictures of its magnificent past, I would love to hear from you. I’m not looking for specific reasons for the community’s demise or anything as heavy as that. Instead, I’m simply looking for your feelings and thoughts about Osage, both as you remember it and how you feel and think about it today.
If any of you are willing, I want to sit down and share a cup of coffee. I really want to talk to you, and would love some old photographs. Please contact me on my cell phone at 210-396-9227, or you can email me with the subject line “Osage” at walterdoodles.art@gmail.com.