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SATURDAY,
JULY 19, 2008
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Monday, July 14, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Plains
Indians History Timeline
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Casper,
Wyoming
History of Casper City, Wyoming
"Before there were people, there was the river—the North
Platte River begins its meandering journey in the
mountains near Casper, running east across the Great
Plains to merge with its sister river, the South Platte,
to become simply the Platte River. Water, mountains, and
plains were a lure from the beginning; evidence of human
occupation dates back more than 12,000 years with the
Clovis peoples, followed by the Folsom and the Eden
Valley peoples. A mix of hunting and gathering tribes
occupied the area until approximately 500 A.D.,
eventually morphing into Native American tribes more
familiar in today's world.
The original residents of Wyoming were nomadic Plains
Indians, including tribes as disparate as the Arapaho,
Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, Lakota, Blackfeet, Kiowa, Nez
Perce, and Shoshone. The tribes relied on the land and
the roaming buffalo herds for sustenance; when European
explorers and hunters began a wholesale slaughter of the
buffalo, coinciding with an interest in herding native
peoples to a containment area in Oklahoma, armed
conflicts escalated in the clash of cultures and
interests. In 1812, fur trappers had followed beaver and
buffalo populations to the northern Rockies. The Oregon
Trail had been scouted out in 1823, and its
ever-deepening ruts reflected the entrenched U.S. belief
in its manifest destiny to expand westward.
The Western Civil War
By 1847, a network of travel routes converged at a spot
just west of present-day Casper; here the Emigrant Trail
crossed from the south side to the north side of the
North Platte River. When the first Mormon wagon train
passed through this area on its way to what would become
Utah, Brigham Young arranged for a ferry to be set up
for the use of future travelers. The Mormon Ferry soon
faced competition as more emigrants passed that way and
decided to cash in on a good idea. One entrepreneurial
French-Canadian trader named John Baptiste Richard
decided to build a bridge across the North Platte and
charge a toll for crossing it. The area was now not just
a way-station but an encampment.
Local residents established a trading post along the
Emigrant Trail in 1859, taking advantage of the growing
stream of wagon trains. As the local population grew
along with the number of emigrants, friction developed
with local tribes of Lakota, Arapaho, and Cheyenne
Indians. As a result, the trading post was transformed
into a fort by the military, and two pitched battles
between the army and the native tribes took place in
1865. In the first conflict, Lieutenant Caspar Collins
was killed while attempting to rescue another soldier.
Lt. Collins' father already had a fort named after him
in Colorado, so the military named the Wyoming fort
"Casper" in his honor, inadvertently using a misspelling
that had been transmitted by telegraph. The seeds of
present-day Casper had been planted.
Black Gold, Texas Tea
Casper in 1888 was a true Wild West town; a railroad had
been built through the town in an effort to ease travel
to riches of gold in California and fertile land in
Oregon. Isolation and lawlessness attracted a rough
crowd of renegades and outlaws, and the original
township developed a main street lined with saloons on
one side. By necessity, the first public building in
Casper was a jail. Lynchings were not an uncommon
occurrence.
Oil was struck in nearby Salt Creek Field in 1889, an
event that has come to define Casper as the "oil capital
of the Rockies." The city was flooded with an influx of
claim jumpers looking to capitalize on the promised
wealth. In 1895, the first oil refinery was constructed.
Oil workers known as "roughnecks" followed, along with
gamblers, prostitutes and corrupt businessmen. Cattlemen
went to war against the sheepmen. The local law
struggled to keep up with the shenanigans of the
populace, passing laws to prevent women from walking on
the saloon side of Main Street and to make illegal the
discharge of firearms within city limits.
Local municipal leaders were set on Casper becoming the
state capital and a centerpiece of the West. As the
economy continued to thrive, construction was begun on
some of the tallest buildings in Wyoming during the
early 20th century. But, a city that lives on oil can
die on oil.
Nearly a Ghost Town
Few communities escaped the repercussions of the Great
Depression, and Casper was not an exception. In 1929,
the city's population diminished by 50 percent; the
struggle continued until World War II spurred renewed
demand for oil and gas supplies.
The city has experienced cycles of boom and bust
beginning in the 1960s, riding the wave of oil and gas
prices. Today, Casper is profiting from U.S. conflicts
with oil-producing nations and has additionally seen the
growth of more consistent industries in the areas of
health care, social services and tourism. Figurative
fisticuffs have taken the place of literal gunfights as
the oil industry negotiates its place in a city that is
increasingly conscious of its finite and infinitely
beautiful natural resources."
Author: Wyoming State Historical Society
Source:
Wyoming State Historical Society
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Riverton City, Wyoming
History of Riverton City:
"Riverton is a city in Fremont County, Wyoming, United
States. It is both the largest city in the county and
the largest on the Wind River Indian Reservation. The
city's population was 9,310 at the 2000 census. Although
located on the reservation, the city is an incorporated
entity of the state of Wyoming. It sits on land ceded
from the reservation in 1906, a situation that often
makes it subject to jurisdictional claims by the nearby
Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes."
Author: Riverton City Website
Source:
Riverton City Website
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Wind River
Indian Reservation, Utah
15 North
Fork Road
P.O. Box 538
Fort Washakie , WY 82514
Phone: (307) 332-3532 / 4932
Wind River Indian Reservation Information:
"The 1.7+
million-acre Wind River Indian Reservation, established
in 1864 through the Bridger-Teton Treaty with the U.S.
government, is home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern
Arapaho tribes. The Wind River Indian Reservation offers
visitors a cultural peek into the history of two Native
American tribes who now share the beautiful wide open
spaces northwest of Lander.
Sacajawea
If you are looking to discover more about Sacajawea, the
Wind River Indian Reservation is the place to go. Near
Fort Washakie you will find the grave of Sacajawea, her
nephew Bazil, and a memorial to her son Baptiste. Many
believe she returned to her Shoshone people in Fort
Washakie where she died and was buried on April 9, 1884,
by the Episcopal missionary, Reverend John Roberts.
While living on the Wind River Indian Reservation
Sacajawea served as a translator for Chief Washakie in
negotiations to establish the reservation and was often
seen wearing one the peace medals given out by Lewis and
Clark. Sacajawea Cemetery is located in the foothills of
the Wind River Mountains where you will find the
13,569-foot Mt. Sacajawea.
Fort Washakie
Once a U.S. military establishment frequented by members
of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, Fort Washakie is now the
headquarters of the tribe's government and the Bureau of
Indian Affairs agency. Fort Washakie is the only
military fort named for an American Indian chief.
Visitors will want to visit the Shoshone Tribal Cultural
Center at 31 Black Coal Street, where you will get an
in-depth look into the history and culture of the
Shoshone Tribe.
The Center, established in 1988, is housed in a National
Registered Historic Building. Featured are exhibits of
tribal cultural crafts and art, along with historical
data and photographic collections. Treaty maps and
agreements are displayed. Maps for self-guided tours are
free, along with information about Chief Washakie and
Sacajawea. You can contact the Shoshone Tribal Cultural
Center at 307-332-9106 or by writing to P.O. Box 1008,
Fort Washakie, WY 82514.
Chief Washakie
Located approximately ½ mile from the Shoshone Tribal
Cultural Center, Chief Washakie Cemetery is the final
resting place of the last chief of the Shoshone Tribe,
Chief Washakie. Chief Washakie is buried in the older
section of the cemetery. A large headstone marks his
grave.
In 1840, Washakie became the principal chief of the
Eastern Shoshone, a role he would fill until his death
over sixty years later. Throughout his tenure he
maintained friendly relations with the U.S. government,
settlers, and other American immigrants. Washakie always
placed the peace and welfare of his people above all
other concerns. In the 1870s Washakie served as a
military leader of over 150 Shoshone men serving with
General Crook in the campaign to return Sioux and
Cheyenne bands to their assigned reservations. The
campaign ended with Custer's ill-fated attack at Little
Big Horn in 1876, an attack which Washakie advised
against.
When he died in 1900 at an age of over 100, Washakie
received a full military funeral and burial, honoring
his career in the U.S. Army.
St. Michael's Mission/Northern Arapaho Cultural
Museum
Ethete, which means "good" in the Arapaho language, is
located several miles east of Fort Washakie and is the
site of St. Michael's Mission. The old buildings were
once part of an Episcopal mission. Faith Hall, the large
building toward the back on the side of the mission was
the school building. In front of Faith Hall you will
find the Northern Arapaho Cultural Museum, which houses
traditional tribal artifacts."
Author: Wind river Indian Reservation Website and
others
Source: Wind river Indian Reservation Website and
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Mountain Man Museum, Riverton,
WY
412 E. Fremont Ave.
Riverton, WY 82501-4407
307-856-0706
E-Mail:
gboesch@rmisp.com
History:
Exhibits of Wyoming
wildlife including 40 full-sized mounts from the Jake
Korell collection, including wolves, bears, bison,
moose, elk, deer and bighorn sheep, plus smaller
mammals. View a collection of historic traps dating from
the early 1800s and the Mountain Man era. Native
American art, gifts, local history books.
Author: Mountain Man Museum Website and others
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The Museum
of the American West, WY
1445 West Main Street
Lander, WY 82520
Phone: 307-335-8778
E-mail: info@amwest.org
Core Curriculum K-4 Standards
Core Curriculum K-5-12 Standards
Core Curriculum Historical Thinking K-5-12
Utah Core Curriculum K3-6 (New Core Curriculum)
Utah Core Curriculum K 7-12
History of The Museum of the American West, Wyoming:
"The Museum of the American West, the only institution
which celebrates the different groups of people who
utilized the critical geography of what is now central
Wyoming to shape the American West.
The Pioneers and their descendants; the Eastern
Shoshone; the Northern Arapaho; and other diverse
cultures have inhabited for generations the valleys of
the Sweetwater and Wind Rivers, beneath the jagged peaks
of the Wind River Mountains and the Great South Pass.
The Museum of the American West is an umbrella for a
series of museums that are planned or currently being
developed at our large site. These include the Pioneer
Museum, the Pushroot Living History Village, the Native
Americans of the Central Plains and Rockies Museum and
living history complex, and the Lander Children’s
Museum.
The mission of the Museum of the American West is to
collect, preserve and exhibit objects of regional and
national historical significance. World-class artifact
collections recount the important roles of the South
Pass, Sweetwater and Wind River areas, and the resident
cultures, in the expansion of the United States to the
Pacific Ocean. The Museum of the American West
facilitates research and promotes ongoing educational
initiatives in partnership with local, national and
international learning institutions."
Author: The Museum of the American West
Source: The Museum of the American West
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San
Creek Riverton Massacre Trail, WY
Core Curriculum K-4 Standards
Core Curriculum K-5-12 Standards
Core Curriculum Historical Thinking K-5-12
Utah Core Curriculum K3-6 (New Core Curriculum)
Utah Core Curriculum K 7-12
San Creek
Riverton Massacre Trail:
"School children will strain their arms to answer
questions about the Oregon Trail or Thomas Jefferson's
impossibly good deal on the Louisiana Purchase.
But mention the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre to most anyone
but an Arapaho or Cheyenne Indian, and ...
A ceremony in Wyoming's capital today aims to fill in
the blank on Sand Creek, one of the most horrific events
in the conquest of the West by Euro-Americans.
Northern Arapaho tribal members will join state
officials on the Cheyenne Depot Plaza at 3:30 p.m. to
designate the Sand Creek Massacre Trail -- a 600-mile
ceremonial link between the Colorado massacre site and
the headquarters of the Northern Arapaho Tribe on
Wyoming's Wind River Reservation.
The ceremony, which is open to the public, will feature
speeches, tribal dancers and a healing ceremony.
Officials also will unveil the design for the official
trail highway sign.
A group of Arapaho runners is scheduled to make the
roughly 10-mile journey on foot from the
Colorado-Wyoming border to Cheyenne in time for the
gathering.
This is part of “an educational awareness, historical
remembrance and spiritual healing for one of the
greatest atrocities to happen to Native American people
during the development of this country,” said Gale
Ridgley, a Northern Arapaho descendant of massacre
survivors Lame Man and Chief Little Raven.
A bloody tale
On the morning of Nov. 29, 1864, about 500 mostly women,
children and elderly Arapaho and Cheyenne were waking
from sleep on the banks of Big Sandy Creek in
southeastern Colorado Territory.
Both tribes were resting easy after the end of prolonged
conflicts with the U.S. government. They had recently
ceded their land and agreed to move to reservations in
exchange for an end to war.
Assured peace, the tribes' men were away finding meat.
Nearby, Col. John Chivington prepared his 800 volunteer
troops from Colorado and New Mexico for battle by
instructing them, according to some accounts, to “kill
and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice.”
The soldiers fell on the Indians that morning,
slaughtering between 150 and 184. Fewer than a dozen
soldiers died. Accounts note extreme brutality by the
soldiers.
“They weren't just killed,” said Nelson White of the
Northern Arapaho Business Council. “They were butchered.
“Some of the stories that was passed on was that even
the ladies that were going to have newborns, the
newborns were cut out and the private parts of both men
and women, after the massacre, they were taken to Denver
and they were paraded through,” White said.
'Shocked the nation
Newspapers initially reported a valiant victory by
Chivington and his men. The true story, when it came
out, made even bigger headlines and shocked the nation.
Three government investigations revealed “a foul and
dastardly massacre” that included “the worst passions
that ever cursed the heart of man.”
Chivington “surprised and murdered, in cold blood, the
unsuspecting men, women and children of Sand Creek, who
had every reason to believe they were under the
protection of the United States authorities,”
investigators concluded.
The massacre heightened tensions between U.S. troops and
a militant Indian groups and probably contributed to
retribution against non-Indian civilians.
Harold Smith, a Northern Arapaho spiritual leader, said
tribal members at Sand Creek were killed and brutalized
because they were Indian, much like the Jews were
persecuted during the Holocaust because of who they
were.
“It's basically the same thing,” Smith said.
Chivington and his men were never punished.
Quick to forget
Over time, the horror of Sand Creek faded from the
public consciousness. Even some tribal members refused
to talk about it.
Ridgley said he only heard whispers of the battle as a
child. His grandfather eventually revealed the family
connections in the 1960s.
“You don't hear about them in the school system,” he
said.
Ridgley, now principal at the Arapahoe Charter High
School, said his tribe still suffers from “generational
trauma” inflicted by the brutal deaths of ancestors less
than six generations ago. He said the suffering and
other hardships in the tribe's history contribute to the
Arapahos' ongoing struggles with poverty, suicide and
depression.
“When you are beaten down like a dog, it carries over to
generations,” he said.
In 1996, Ridgley and his brother, former Northern
Arapaho Business Councilman Ben Ridgley, were selected
by the tribe to work with other tribes, states and the
federal government to resurrect the story of Sand Creek
and honor those who died.
The decade-long effort entailed an 18-month scientific
study of the massacre site and an “oral history” study
that brought together the collective knowledge about the
massacre passed down by tribal families.
A nation remembers
Congress adopted legislation in 2000 that formally
recognized the significance of the massacre in American
history.
In Wyoming, Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, Sen. Bob Peck,
R-Riverton, and the late Rep. Harry Tipton, R-Lander,
pushed for a resolution to designate several sections of
highway as the Sand Creek Massacre Trail. After attempts
by three separate Legislatures, the measure passed both
houses unanimously....."
Author: Jared Miller
Source:
Star Tribune, August 16, 2006
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South
Pass, WY
South Pass
History:
"South
Pass (elevation 7550 ft) is a mountain pass on the
Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains in
southwestern Wyoming. The pass is located in a broad
valley between the Wind River Range to the north and the
Antelope Hills to the south, in southwestern Fremont
County, approximately 35 miles (54 km) SSW of Lander.
The pass furnishes a natural crossing point of the
Rockies and has historically been the route for the
Oregon Trail, California Trail, and Mormon Trail during
the 19th century. The pass is a broad open saddle with
prairie and sagebrush, allowing a broad and nearly level
route between the Atlantic and Pacific watersheds. The
Sweetwater River rises on the east side of the pass, and
Pacific Creek rises on the west side.
History
South Pass signThe discovery of the pass as a natural
crossing point of the Rockies was a significant but
surprisingly difficult achievement in the westward
expansion of the United States. It was unknown to the
Lewis and Clark Expedition, which followed a northerly
route up the Missouri River, crossing the Rockies over
difficult passes in the Bitteroot Range in Montana.
South Pass, by comparison, was known only to Native
Americans until 1812, when Robert Stuart and six
companions from the Pacific Fur Company (the Astorians)
crossed the Rockies here on their return from Astoria,
Oregon:
"In 1811, the overland party of Mr. Astor's expedition,
under the command of Mr. Wilson P. Hunt, of Trenton, New
Jersey, although numbering sixty well armed men, found
the Indians so very troublesome in the country of the
Yellowstone River, that the party of seven persons who
left Astoria toward the end of June, 1812, considering
it dangerous to pass again by the route of 1811, turned
toward the southeast as soon as they had crossed the
main chain of the Rocky Mountains, and, after several
days' journey, came through the celebrated 'South Pass'
in the month of November, 1812.
Map of southwestern Wyoming showing location of South
Pass at the headwaters of the Sweetwater River.Pursuing
from thence an easterly course, they fell upon the River
Platte of the Missouri, where they passed the winter and
reached St. Louis in April, 1813. The seven
persons forming the party were Robert McClelland of
Hagerstown, who, with the celebrated Captain Wells, was
captain of spies under General Wayne in his famous
Indian campaign, Joseph Miller of Baltimore, for several
years an officer of the U. S. Army, Robert Stuart, a
citizen of Detroit, Benjamin Jones, of Missouri, who
acted as huntsman of the party, Francois LeClaire, a
halfbreed, and André Valée, a Canadian voyageur, and
Ramsay Crooks, who is the only survivor of this small
band of adventurers." (Letter of Ramsay Crooks to the
Detroit free Press, June 28, 1856)
The 20th Century saw Oregon Trail boosters mark the
trailway with monuments as patriotic pathways of
Manifest Destiny. Ezra Meeker erected this boulder near
Pacific Springs on Wyoming's South Pass in
1906.[1]Despite Stuart's meticulous journal of the trip,
which was presented to Astor and President James
Madison, and published in France, the knowledge of its
location was not widely known, so for over a decade
trappers used a longer, more northern route which
included an extra mountain range and offered a shorter
season for crossing. In 1824, Jedediah Smith
rediscovered the pass. In 1832, Captain Benjamin
Bonneville and a caravan of 110 men and 20 wagons became
the first group to take wagons over the pass. In July
1836, Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spaulding were the
first pioneer women to cross South Pass. Between 1848
and 1868, it furnished the convenient crossing point for
emigrants westward, most of whom followed the Sweetwater
River across Wyoming to its headwaters, following the
Central Route. Before the railroads offered an easier
crossing in 1869, perhaps half a million would trek
through South Pass.
Gold had been discovered in the gulches near the pass as
early as 1842. It was not until 1867, when an ore sample
was transported to Salt Lake City, that an influx of
miners descended into the region. The gold rush led to
the establishment of booming mining communities such as
South Pass City and Atlantic City. The placer gold in
the streams was exhausted quickly, however, and by 1870
the miners began leaving the region. In 1884, Emile
Granier, a French mining engineer, established a
hydraulic drilling operation that allowed gold mining to
continue. Gold mining was revived once again in nearby
Rock Creek in the 1930s. From the 1960s through 1983, a
US Steel iron ore mine operated in Atlantic City.
Author: The Museum of the American West and
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Pony
Express Trail, HWY 28, WY
Purpose:
To provide
the fastest mail delivery between St. Joseph, Missouri,
and Sacramento, California. To draw public attention to
the central route in hope of gaining the million dollar
government mail contract for the Central Overland
California and Pikes Peak Express Company.
Date:
April 3, 1860, to late October 1861.
Mechanics:
Relay of mail by horses and riders. The Pony Express
ran day and night, summer and winter.
Riders:
183 men are known to have ridden for the Pony
Express during its operation of just over 18 months
Rider Qualifications:
Ad in California newspaper read: "Wanted. Young,
skinny, wiry fellows. Not over 18. Must be expert
riders. Willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred."
Most riders were around 20. Youngest was 11. Oldest was
mid-40s. Not many were orphans. Usually weighed around
120 pounds.
Riders Pay
$100 per month.
First Riders:
Johnny Fry was first westbound rider from St.
Joseph. Billy Hamilton was first eastbound driver from
Sacramento.
Rider Relay:
New riders took over every 75 to 100 miles.
Horse Relay:
Riders got a fresh horse every 10 to 15 miles.
Speed:
Horses traveled an average of 10 miles per hour.
Horses:
400 horses purchased to stock the Pony Express
route. Thoroughbreds, mustangs, pintos, and Morgans were
often used.
Stations:
Approximately 165 stations.
Trail Length:
Almost 2,000 miles.
Route:
St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.
Through the present day states of Kansas, Nebraska,
northeast corner of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and
California.
Departure:
Once a week from April 3 to mid-June 1860. Twice a
week from mid-June, to late October 1861. Departures
were from both the east and the west.
Schedule:
10 days in summer. 12 to 16 days in winter.
Fastest Delivery:
7 days and 17 hours between telegraph lines.
Lincoln's Inaugural Address.
Longest Drive:
Pony Bob Haslam rode 370 miles (Friday's Station to
Smith Creek and back. This is in present-day Nevada.)
Cost of Mail:
$5.00 per 1/2 ounce at the beginning. By the end of
the Pony Express, the price had dropped to $1.00 per 1/2
ounce.
Founders:
William Russell, Alexander Majors, and William
Waddell. The company was the Central Overland California
and Pikes Peak Express Company. The Pony Express was a
subsidiary of the famous freight and stage company.
Other Mail Routes:
Water route from New York to San Francisco and
across Panama by pack mule. Southern or Butterfield
route from St. Louis and Memphis to El Paso to Los
Angeles to San Francisco.
Telegraph Completed:
October 24, 1861. Official end of the Pony Express.
Failures:
Financially, the owners spent $700,000 on the Pony
Express and had a $200,000 deficit. The company failed
to get the million dollar government contract because of
political pressures and the outbreak of the Civil War.
Successes:
Improved communication between east and west. Proved
the central route could be traveled all winter.
Supported the central route for the transcontinental
railroad. Kept communication open to California at the
beginning of the Civil War. Provided the fastest
communication between east and west until the telegraph.
Captured the hearts and the imagination of people all
over the world.
Folklore:
One mochila lost and one rider killed. Location,
date and names have not been verified.
Author: The American West Website
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