Wyoming Trivia (Renamed) (Laramie, Riverton, Rawlins: radio, rankings, soccer)

[jody_wy]

The BQ between Cokeville and Kemmerer had a huge barn full of ox bows, they used alot of oxen. Don't know when the barn burned down.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by 3-Oaks

It's a shoe for an Ox.

Wyoming significance I don't know other than they were used to pull wagons & for pulling farm equipment. Often preferred over horses because they were cheaper to buy & cheaper to feed.

You go it 3-Oaks.

The relevance is that it is a common artifact found along the Oregon Trail and Mormon Trail, where thousands of oxen pulled wagons transported immigrants in their travels west. It was also a staple that the immigrants needed to carry in their supplies as they often had to be replaced along the way.

Worn Ox Shoe.jpg
South Pass Oregon Mormon Trail Lander Cutoff Landmarkers Facts Maps Pictures>

Many can be found along the Oregon and Mormon trails that passed through Wyoming.

Covered wagon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

While covered wagons traveling short distances on good roads could be drawn by horses, those crossing the plains were usually drawn by a team of two or more pairs of oxen. These were driven by a teamster or drover, who walked at the left side of the team and directed the oxen with verbal commands and whipcracks. Mules were also used; they were harnessed and driven by someone sitting in the wagon seat holding the reins.

Overland Migration Artifacts
Overland Migration Artifacts

Ox shoe and hoof (from a cow, not an ox). Oxen were the preferred draft animal for a wagon. They were less expensive, easier to feed, more durable, and less attractive to thieves.

[3-Oaks]

Sorry! Should not have answered that last one when we were going out of town for the weekend & then never even turned on the computer yesterday.

I'll have to look for a question & don't have time right now, so if someone else already has found a question, go for it!

[CptnRn]

OK I have one:

Who painted the first Euro-American produced visual records of what is now Wyoming?

Hint: he traveled with Wyoming's first "dude".

[CptnRn]

Hint:

[Poletop]

I believe that it is called Louis - Rocky Mountain Trapper, painted by Alfred Jacob Miller

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by Poletop

I believe that it is called Louis - Rocky Mountain Trapper, painted by Alfred Jacob Miller

Congratulations Poletop, your first post is correct. Your turn.

Many of the annual rendezvous were held in what is now Wyoming, most along the Upper Green River in the neighborhood of present-day Pinedale... The rendezvous captured the attention of local Native Americans who participated in the lively trade and contests at the brief mid-summer carnivals. Sir William Drummond Stewart, a Scottish nobleman, came to the 1837 rendezvous.* He had made a similar visit three years earlier by paying the supply company to transport him to the site. (He became Wyoming’s first "dude" as a result). This time, Stewart brought with him a Baltimore artist, Alfred Jacob Miller. In the days before cameras, Stewart wanted a permanent record of the colorful rendezvous. From the sketches Miller made that year, he painted dozens of canvases of* rendezvous scenes. They became the first Euro-American produced visual records of what is now Wyoming.*

MORE PHOTOS OF HIS WORK:

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumb...ng-A-Lasso.jpg
http://www.artsales.com/ARTistory/Hi...ow_scout_A.jpg
http://www.tfaoi.com/cm/6cm/6cm297.jpg
http://www.tfaoi.com/cm/6cm/6cm299.jpg

[Poletop]

OK, here goes my first question. This gentleman was born in 1901, moved with his family to Wyoming in 1906. Opened the first recreation site in Wyoming, west of the Wind River Range. Transported fish in five gallon milk cans, twelve at a time using six pack horses , stocked over 300 lakes with over 2.5 million little trout, all free for the public to enjoy. He served in the Wyoming House of Representatives, and has one of a very few land forms in the country that was named after a living American.

Here is one of my favorite qoites from him: "Throughout this century I have roamed this wilderness, communing with nature, observing other creatures along with myself, merely desiring to live and let live. Because of this aloneness, I’ve learned to love, not only those of my own kind, but all life within a wilderness; the birds, the beasts, the trees, the flowers, and the grasses of the land. Only in wilderness, it seems, is man’s love so thoroughly and completely returned, so unselfishly shared”

[Froggie Legs]

Finis Mitchell

[Poletop]

Good job! He was one of my hero's.. Youre up