Week Two: Thursday's Route

It was we and the Wyoming prairie for most of the morning.  Did we see any human beings out there?

Wyoming State Museum

We finished off the afternoon at the Wyoming State Museum which cover Wyoming State history from the dinosaurs to the present.  I took this picture because it reminded me of when we used to have a milk box on our back stoop, even in the early sixties, to which the milkman would deliver milk each day.

The Nelson Museum of the West

There were some very interesting exhibits in this museum.

Big Boy

Big Boy is the popular name of the American Locomotive Company 4000-class 4-8-8-4 articulated, coal-fired, steamlocomotives manufactured between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad until 1959. The Big Boy fleet totaled twenty five locomotives that were used primarily in the Wyoming Division to haul freight over the Wasatch range between Green River, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah. 

Cottages for Nine Daughters

A prosperous Cheyenne citizen had 17 children, nine of them daughters.  He had built nine cottages and give each daughter one as a wedding gift.  However, none of them moved in because their father could not get along with any of his sons-in-law.  They all moved out of state.  Here are three of the cottages.

Chief Washakie

Chief Waskakie was a renowned warrior first mentioned in 1840 in the written record of the American fur trapper, Osborne Russell. In 1851, at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshones to the council meetings of theTreaty of Fort Laramie (1851). Essentially from that time until his death, he was considered the head of the Eastern Shoshones by the representatives of the United States government.  He lived to be 101.

Esther Hobart Morris

Esther Hobart Morris was the woman who successfully lobbied the Wyoming territorial legislature for women's suffrage.  Wyoming did not become a state for another 21 years because of this.  I will note that Wikipedia sheds some skepticism about Morris' role in this.  Nonetheless, Wyoming was still the first state to permit women to vote.