Laramie

creatures that no longer exist. Paleontological interest became popular in this area beginning in the 1840s. Trappers and traders would travel along the edge of what is now Badlands National Park when they were traveling between Fort Pierre and Fort Laramie. Along this journey, they would occasionally collect fossils, starting the act of taking the fossils and examining them. The first published discovery of fossil remains discovered in the White River Badlands was written by Dr. Hiram Prout…

We left right after breakfast, a hearty serving of bacon and eggs. Elizabeth Wright had some extra eggs that she didn't want to bring along so she split it between the people in the wagon train. That only meant four eggs for us so we made more bacon to compensate. We followed the Platte River for one hundred seventy miles before we reached the California Crossing. My legs feel like they are falling off. They have ached since the start of this journey but I can't let Sam know. Then he would just…

drastically due to Indians battles and the federal treaties on land distribution. It’s establish territory and boundaries for each different Indians tribes whether are the sioux, crows, kiowas and etc. The treaties were created in a year of 1851 at Fort Laramie and at Fort Atkinson. It were created to be an unfair treaty because later in 1860 the federal government introduce a new policy that the ‘reservation’ that the Indians received had to decrease even small due to white immigration to the…

In Wyoming’s history there have been many themes that reoccur. Some of these themes still occur to this day in Wyoming. In this paper I will discuss some women’s equality, boom and bust, scandals, and resources shipped out of the state. One theme is women’s equality. Wyoming was the first territory to give women equal voting rights and was eventually the first state to do so as well. William Bright introduced giving women this right and Edward Lee who was secretary of the territory campaigned…

During the mid 1800’s, Westward Expansion dramatically increased and permanently shaped the United States of America. The Gold Rush, trade with Japan, and the end of the Mexican War lead people to travel to the west coast. Many people gained freedom and opportunity by coming to America in the mid 1800’s; however, others encountered misfortunes along the way. The Donner Party traveled to the West Coast in hopes of creating a better life. The Mormons Pioneers traveled west to join the Church of…

How can hospitality be expected by a guest who barges in and demands to take control? If hospitality is present in such situations, it will prove to be destructive. Similarly, when European explorers entered the New World, they discovered Native Americans, who had already been living in the Americas for several centuries. Undoubtedly, these indigenous people’s lifestyles were influenced by the climate, resources, and geography of this land. As the European explorers began to settle in the New…

Throughout the course of this semester we have covered a myriad of myths and how they apply. Of all the myths covered, the Native American myths always stood out most. This paper will be focused on the how the black snake and water protectors of Standing Rock North Dakota and how they can be liked in correlation of the native mythology motif. The myth under analysis is that of Uncegila, a female serpent who can be portrayed in native trickster myths. With all the chaos that has been happening…

Patrick Johnson Engr 597 Tectonics Dr. Gifford 10/14/2016 Formation of the Rocky Mountains Abstract • How did they form? • Sevier orogeny • Laramide orogeny • prevailing theory (flat slab subduction) 1. Very low angle subducting slab 2. rubbing against underside of North American plate 3. first proposed by william dickinson (1978) 4. another good paper Peter Bird (1988) • Alternative theories 1. Craig jones - suction model 2. (maxson, Tikoff 1996) - Hit and run collision model "I 'll come…

On October 6,1998, Matthew Shepard was left to die after accepting a ride home from two Caucasian males who beat and tortured him in Laramie, Wyoming. These two men assumed Matthew Shepard was gay and decided it was their duty to rid him of his existence. The two men who inflicted this gruesome act on Matthew Shepard weren’t prosecuted because of the law from 1969. About 35,000 hate crimes go unreported every year and this is for the LGBT communities alone, (LGBT Foundation, 2015). So many hate…

Alcatraz signalled the start of the strategy of highly public direct protest employed by the Red Power movement during this period, and over the next several years, many protests of the same highly public calibre were carried out. The next large scale protest was organized in 1972, and was called the Trail of Broken Treaties. The Trail of Broken Treaties was a protest march on Washington D.C., where the Native American leaders were to present a twenty point framework “for considering the status…