Search Results for: Wyoming
Cattle Industry Going Wild
By the mid 1880’s the cattle industry was going wild. To get as much money as possible, speculators were overstocking the grazing ranges of Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas. And with several mild winters they were also saving money by not putting up feed for wintertime. The summer of 1886 was a dry […]
LIKE LIVER?
On January 21, 1900 one of the Old West’s most intriguing and gruesome men died in a veterans’ hospital in California. This was a strange ending for this man who was depicted in a movie Starring Robert Redford called “Jeremiah Johnson”. John Johnson was a red bearded giant of a man who headed to the […]
WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE
Although women had been instrumental the development of our country, as 1869 was coming to a close, they didn’t have the right to hold a political office, or even vote. But that was changed on December 10, 1869 as the first state gave women the right to vote and hold political office. One would expect […]
RENDEZVOUS
The idea of the rendezvous was not that of a mountain man, but William Ashley, a St. Louis, Missouri merchant on a venture west. Ashley decided to cut out the competition for furs by going to Wyoming where the mountain men were, instead of waiting for the furs to come to St. Louis. So on […]
DOC HOLLIDAY
The Old West’s most famous doctor didn’t become famous for saving lives, but taking them. His name was Doc Holliday. And on November 8, 1887 he died not achieving the one thing that he tried to accomplish most of his adult life. Doc Holliday grew up in Georgia where he went to dental school and […]
