Wyoming Trivia (Renamed) (Cheyenne, Laramie, Wheatland: routes, pronounced, room)

[jody_wy]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

Since there seems to be no interest in this:

Tim Kellog, from Meeteetse owns the Meeteetsee Chocolatier.
www.meeteetsechocolatier.com


Four of the 400 richest billionares in America live in Wyoming. How did they make their money?



You can figure out the rest. Anyone who would like to have a turn is welcome to it.

was looking been busy, met Forest Mars a few years ago at the Orvis Lodge in Big Horn

[CptnRn]

Next question: It is said that this pioneer of Western style furniture single-handedly popularized "cowboy furniture" or the Western style of furniture design. He has since had many imitators of his craft. Who was he and where was his store?

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

Next question: It is said that this pioneer of Western style furniture single-handedly popularized "cowboy furniture" or the Western style of furniture design. He has since had many imitators of his craft. Who was he and where was his store?

It was called the Shoshone Furniture Company (http://www.molesworthtoo.com/granddad.html - broken link), Cody Wyoming and the owner and creator was Thomas Molesworth who was born in Kansas in 1890. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1908 to 1909. He Managed the Rowe Furniture Company in Billings, Montana, and was married in 1917 to La Verne Johnston from Byron Illinois. They were blessed with two children, and moved to Cody Wyoming in 1931. The Population at the time was around 2,000.

Tom opened his own, very successful furniture business there and made history. His furniture was purchased by The Annenbergs, famous CEO's and U.S. President Eisenhower to name just a few. He is known as “The Godfather” of ranch style furniture and has influenced nearly all professional furniture builders around the world.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

It was called the Shoshone Furniture Company (http://www.molesworthtoo.com/granddad.html - broken link), Cody Wyoming and the owner and creator was Thomas Molesworth who was born in Kansas in 1890. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1908 to 1909. He Managed the Rowe Furniture Company in Billings, Montana, and was married in 1917 to La Verne Johnston from Byron Illinois. They were blessed with two children, and moved to Cody Wyoming in 1931. The Population at the time was around 2,000.

Tom opened his own, very successful furniture business there and made history. His furniture was purchased by The Annenbergs, famous CEO's and U.S. President Eisenhower to name just a few. He is known as “The Godfather” of ranch style furniture and has influenced nearly all professional furniture builders around the world.

You are absolutely correct.

Thomas C. Molesworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas C. Molesworth (1890-1977) was born in Kansas in 1890 and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. After working at a furniture store in Chicago, he, like many men of his generation, enlisted and fought in World War I. After returning from the war, he eventually found work managing a furniture store, Shoshone Furniture Company in Cody, Wyoming.

Over the span of thirty years, Molesworth created hundreds, perhaps even thousands of pieces of rustic western furniture for local ranches, eastern plantations and hotels throughout Wyoming and Montana including the TE Ranch, Eisenhower's den and the Rockefeller Ranch.

Molesworth Furniture

The Pioneer of Western Furniture Design. Molesworth made furniture for some of the most prominent Americans of the twentieth century. He furnished Eisenhower's den, the Rockefeller Ranch and the homes and retreats of several celebrities and captains of industry and commerce.
During the summer of 1995 Christie's auction house Park Avenue New York sold 318 lots of Molesworth furniture from Colorado's "Old Lodge" circa 1935 for 2.9 million dollars.

A few photos here:
Molesworth Furniture

http://www.molesworthtoo.com/MOLESWORTH.gif (broken link)

His furniture now attracts very high prices in auction.

THOMAS C. MOLESWORTH (1890-1977) | A LEATHER, METAL AND FIR DESK, CIRCA 1945 | 20th Century Decorative Art & Design Auction</li> | desk, Furniture & Lighting | Christie's

[ElkHunter]

I've seen some of his furniture and it is nice.

Here's the next question:


What was the name of and in what year? Earliest Road Project that was Federally Funded.

First one, West of the Mississippi River.

[jody_wy]

Lander trail, tierous (sp) canyon just up Stump Creek on the Idaho side is really neat , heading to Cheyenne to do a little say to my Legislatures,so sombody else can have a turn if I am right

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by jody_wy

Lander trail, tierous (sp) canyon just up Stump Creek on the Idaho side is really neat , heading to Cheyenne to do a little say to my Legislatures,so sombody else can have a turn if I am right

Well, kind of. I'll give it another day to see if anybody can better describe it.

[CptnRn]

I think jody_wy is correct, its the Lander Road or Lander Cut-off some people call it. It goes nowhere near Lander, but was surveyed by Fredrick W. Lander.

Lander Road

In 1857 increased traffic along the Emigrant Trail encouraged the federal government to investigate ways to improve the road to the western states. Expeditions under the command of Frederick W. Lander surveyed a new route starting at Burnt Ranch following the last crossing of the Sweetwater River. The new road splits from the main trail and follows the Sweetwater further upstream toward its source. The trail eventually crosses the continental divide north of South Pass and proceeds through sparsely-forested high altitude region at the southern edge of the Wind River Range. The route fords the Green River near Big Piney, Wyoming and then transverses the Wyoming Range, Grey's River, and Salt River Range before descending into the Salt River valley, eventually leaving the state near Afton.[23] In Idaho, the road proceeded due west until it met the main trail before arriving at Fort Hall.
By crossing the lush Wyoming and Salt River Ranges instead of circling via the deserts to the south, the route provided ample wood, grass and water for the travelers, and cut nearly 7 days off the total travel time for wagon trails.[24] Despite the better conditions for livestock, the mountainous terrain and unpredictable weather still proved to be dangerous for travelers. Funds were appropriated in 1858 and 115 men completed the road in 90 days, clearing timber and moving 62,000 cubic yards (47,000 m3) of earth.[25] The road, which was the first government road project in the west, opened in 1859 and remained in use until 1912, when automobiles made it obsolete.

Emigrant Trail in Wyoming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Map http://wyoshpo.state.wy.us/trailsdemo/landerroad.htm

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

I think jody_wy is correct, its the Lander Road or Lander Cut-off some people call it. It goes nowhere near Lander, but was surveyed by Fredrick W. Lander.

Map Cutoffs Lander Road

Well, it wasn't originally called that so I was looking to see if anybody come up with more correct information.

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I could be wrong, but I took this statement as that it was originally named something else.

This site is a crossing of the Lander Cut-off, the northern fork of the Oregon Trail. Originally called the Fort Kearney-South Pass-Honey Lake Wagon Road when it opened in 1858, it was the first federally-funded road project west of the Mississippi River.
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So, somebody can go for it.

[CptnRn]

This may be too easy, but I feel it deserves a place in the Wyoming Trivia thread.

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