Wyoming Trivia (Renamed) (Laramie, Fort Laramie: closing, bike, ride)

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Wikipedia states that she began to write full time in 1978, living on a Wyoming ranch, after the death of a loved one. Ehrlich debuted in 1985 with The Solace of Open Spaces, a collection of essays on rural life in Wyoming. Her first novel, also set in Wyoming, was Heart Mountain (1988), about a community being invaded by an internment camp for Japanese Americans. In 1991 Ehrlich was hit by lightning. She was incapacitated for several years, and she wrote a book about the experience, A Match to the Heart, which was published in 1994. This Cold Heaven published in 2001 is a non-fiction narrative about the lives and history of the Inuit people who have lived in Greenland for almost five thousand years.

[ElkHunter]

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She has written several books. She lived in Shell Wyoming and one day was out walking her dog. During the walk, she was struck by lightning. She wrote several books about her experiences in Wyoming. However, after she was struck by lightning, doctors advised her to move to a lower elevation so she moved to Greenland and lived with the inuit people while she researched material for her books.

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An event occured on September 2nd 1885. Francis Warren traveled there on September 3rd to make a personal assessment of the situation. After his trip there, the Governor made a request to President Grover Cleveland for aid from federal troops. Two companies of the United States Army 7th Infantry arrived there on September 5th to aid in the situation. Twenty eight people were murdered and 15 more were injured during this event. What was the name of the massacre, and where did it occur?

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Here is a clue!

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The Rock Springs massacre Or Rock Springs riot. Location is present day Rock Springs in Sweatwater county in WY.

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You got it WYO_BOUND!! You get to ask the next question>>>
The Rock Springs massacre occurred on September 2, 1885 in the present-day city of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The riot, between Chinese immigrant miners and white, mostly immigrant, miners, was the result of racial tensions and an ongoing labor dispute over the Union Pacific Coal Company’s policy of paying Chinese miners lower wages than white miners. When the rioting ended, at least 28 Chinese miners were dead (some estimates say 40-50) and 15 were wounded. Rioters burned 79 Chinese homes.
Tension between whites and Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century American West was particularly high, especially in the decade preceding the violence. The massacre in Rock Springs was the violent outburst of years of anti-”coolie” sentiment in the United States. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act suspended Chinese immigration for ten years, but not before thousands of immigrants came to the American West.
Most Chinese immigrants to Wyoming Territory took jobs with the railroad at first, but many ended up employed in coal mines owned by the Union Pacific Railroad. As Chinese immigration increased, so did anti-Chinese sentiment from whites. The Knights of Labor, one of the foremost voices against Chinese immigrant labor, formed a chapter in Rock Springs in 1883, and most rioters were members of that organization.
At 7:00 a.m. on September 2, 1885, ten white men, in ordinary garb and miner’s uniforms, arrived at coal pit number six at the Rock Springs mine. They declared that the Chinese laborers had no right to work in a particularly desirable “room” in the mine; miners were paid by the ton, thus location was important to the miners. A fight broke out, and two Chinese workers at pit number six were badly beaten. The white miners, most of whom were members of the Knights of Labor, walked out of the mine.
After the work stoppage at pit number six, more white miners assembled near the town. They marched to Rock Springs by way of the railroad, carrying firearms. At about 10:00 a.m., the bell in the Knights of Labor meeting hall tolled, and the miners inside the building joined the already large group.
About 150 men, armed with Winchester rifles, moved toward Chinatown in Rock Springs. They moved in two groups and entered Chinatown by crossing separate bridges.
As the white miners moved into Chinatown, the Chinese became aware of the riot and that Leo Dye Bah and Yip Ah Marn, residents from the west and east sides of Chinatown, had already been killed. As the news of the murders spread, the Chinese fled in fear and confusion.
The Chinese immigrants present at the Rock Springs massacre presented their own grisly account of the mêlée to the Chinese consul in New York:
“Whenever the mob met a Chinese they stopped him and, pointing a weapon at him, asked him if he had any revolver, and then approaching him they searched his person, robbing him of his watch or any gold or silver that he might have about him, before letting him go. Some of the rioters would let a Chinese go after depriving him of all his gold and silver, while another Chinese would be beaten with the butt ends of the weapons before being let go. Some of the rioters, when they could not stop a Chinese, would shoot him dead on the spot, and then search and rob him. Some would overtake a Chinese, throw him down and search and rob him before they would let him go. Some of the rioters would not fire their weapons, but would only use the butt ends to beat the Chinese with. Some would not beat a Chinese, but rob him of whatever he had and let him go, yelling to him to go quickly. Some, who took no part either in beating or robbing the Chinese, stood by, shouting loudly and laughing and clapping their hands.”
By 3:30 p.m. the massacre was well under way. As the riot wore on into the night, the Chinese miners scattered into the hills, lying in the grass to hide. Between four and nine p.m., rioters set fire to the camp houses belonging to the coal company. By nine p.m., all but one Chinese camp house was burned completely. In all, 79 Chinese homes were destroyed by fire.
Of the Chinese killed, some died on the banks of Bitter Creek as they fled others near the railroad bridge as they attempted to escape Chinatown. The rioters threw Chinese bodies into the flames of burning buildings. Other Chinese immigrants, who had hid in their houses instead of fleeing, were murdered, and then their bodies were burned with their houses. Those who could not run, including the sick, were burned alive in their camp houses. In total, 28 Chinese miners were confirmed dead, and at least 15 were wounded. There is speculation about the exact number of Chinese killed in Rock Springs. Various sources assert that 40-50 might be a more accurate number, as some of those who fled were never accounted for

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What year was this built? Where is it located and what is it?

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Originally Posted by WYO_BOUND_in2011

What year was this built? Where is it located and what is it?

Big Horn Medicine Wheel. Built between 300-800 years ago, nobody is sure exactly when.

On top of the Bighorn Range in Wyoming, a desolate 9,642 feet high and only reachable during the warm summer months, lies an ancient Native American construction -- an 80' diameter wheel-like pattern made of stones. At the center of the circle is a doughnut-shaped pile of stones, a cairn, connected to the rim by 28 spoke-like lines of stones. Six more stone cairns are arranged around the circle, most large enough to hold a sitting human. The central cairn is about 12 feet in diameter and 2' high

If you stand or sit at one cairn looking towards another, you will be pointed to certain places on the distant horizon. These points indicate where the Sun rises or sets on summer solstice and where certain important stars rise heliacally, that is, first rise at dawn after being behind the Sun. The dawn stars helped foretell when the Sun ceremonial days would be coming. The area is free of snow only for 2 months -- around the summer solstice. The wheel has 28 spokes, the same number used in the roofs of ceremonial buildings such as the Lakota Sundance lodge. These always includes an entrance to the east, facing the rising Sun, and include 28 rafters for the 28 days in the lunar cycle. The number 28 is sacred to some of the Indian tribes because of its significance as the lunar month. In Bighorn's case, could the special number 28 also refer to the helicial or dawn rising of Rigel 28 days past the Solstice, and Sirius another 28 past that?

by Stanford SOLAR Center

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This town erected a granite memorial dedicated “to the memory of those who ride beyond the sunset.”

What town, what is it for, what year?