Rocky Mountain National Park

There is a place where you can go. There is a place where the wind whispers wonders Of long ago. There is a place where the Meadowlark still sings. I know this place for long ago... There I walked with... The Ghost of Medicine Crow Shamus curried his horse beneath the huge cottonwood shade tree near his home on the Montana Indian reservation. At 10 years old, Shamus had become a good horseman and responsible owner of his brown quarter horse gelding, Two-Gun. Often…

“How dare you try to hog all the continent!” by Rocky Mountain News, 1866. The transcontinental railroad ran through the continent like a steel horse. The railroad was a massive event that happened in American history, and encounter and exchange occurred in this situation. For Chinese immigrants and Native Americans the transcontinental railroad was a series of tragic encounters. However, the transcontinental railroad allowed goods and services to be exchanged across the United States allowing…

Mountain Men came to exist throughout the 1800’s, but were at their peak between 1830 to 1850 mainly because of the Fur Trade. There was never a large number of mountain men to exist. Who can blame them? Living this sort of lifestyle was never easy; even for those who have acquired the knowledge needed to survive. They faced many obstacles while traveling from place to place such as extreme temperatures, starvation, and attacks from Indians and Grizzly Bears. They played a large role in the fur…

screening of the documentary film, Jumbo Wild, directed by Nick Waggoner, and it took place mostly at Jumbo Glacier/Valley which is designated as a mountain resort municipality in the East Kootenay region of southeast British Columbia, Canada. It is a massive, breathtaking range of mountain peaks and glaciers that is part of the Purcell Range in the Columbia Mountains located near the edge of Jumbo Creek. What interested me initially in the movie and why I decided to pick this movie from all the…

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…

Rendezvous Rendezvous is a word that means meeting in French. In 19th century America, rendezvous referred to meetings in the west at a designated place to trade furs and goods. The majority of rendezvous happened in the Rocky Mountain region and frequently occurred in Indian villages. Rendezvous started in the year 1810 and continued throughout the better part of the century up to the 1880’s. Rendezvous lasted anywhere from a couple days to several weeks (Harris 42). Rendezvous impacted…

The Chinese immigrants What do you think about when you hear Chinese Immigrants, when I think about them I think about them having moved to the United States while racism was going on around that time. Many of the chinese immigrants went to America where money was everywhere, at least that is what they thought. A lot of that stuff happened, and the outcomes for them did not turn out as well as you would think it would. An interesting question of how this all started. What was pushing the…

and am passionate about, is there. Leaving the Midwest to live out in the actual West is something I have been longing to do since I was a little girl. On our yearly trips to Wyoming and Colorado, I would stare up at the unforgiving cliffs of Rocky Mountain Range in awe and wonder. My family’s ski trips are the one thing I look forward to most each winter. Skiing is something I have been passionate about all my life. Despite only having the oh-so monstrous bunny hills we call ski slopes at…

The Transcontinental Railroad was not only the first massive mode of transportation to connect coast to coast for the United States but it was a race, a major source of immigration, culture, and the livelihood for many who worked on it. Building the railroad wasn’t an easy feat, it had grueling trials on both the manual and non-manual side of the process. The financing for the railroad constituted finding loopholes to get the most government funding possible and finding investors. While the…

The Transcontinental Railroad, when completed, was 1776 miles long, stretching the expanse of the newly formed USA. The two sides of the rails were united in 1869 in Promontory, utah, by a golden spike truck into the ground by Leland Stanford. The TRR shaped the united states by uniting the sections of the east, west, north, and south. The social impact was enormous, by encouraging immigration to distant places in the newly settled west. Sadly, there were also negative effects of the uniting,…