Wyoming Trivia (Renamed) (Sheridan, Buffalo, Kemmerer: school districts, legality, deal)

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by Froggie Legs

Hot City= Thermopolis?
Pushroot= Lander
Crow Creek Crossing= Cheyenne
Camp Colter= Powell?
Platte Bridge Station= Casper?
Tent City= Fort Steele ?

Very good, I'm impressed!!! The "Tent City" you list was not the one I was looking for, but it is correct. There were probably several tent cities along the railroad. The one you named is about 10 miles East of Rawlins. I was not previously aware of it. The one I was looking for is described below as near Douglas, Wyoming. The other answers can all be found on the Wiki pages for each community.

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"Thermopolis" (thur-MOP-uh-liss) is from the Greek for "Hot City".

Lander was known as Pushroot, Fort Brown, and Fort Auger prior to its current name.

Cheyenne, The city was not named by Dodge, as his memoirs state, but rather by friends who accompanied him to the area Dodge called "Crow Creek Crossing." It was named for the American Indian Cheyenne nation, one of the most famous and prominent Great Plains tribes closely allied with the Arapaho.

Powell - Work began on the dam and canal projects, with Camp Colter being set up near the present townsite to serve as headquarters and tent camp for the several hundred men working on the Shoshone and Garland Canal projects.
Powell, Wyoming

Casper - American Indian attacks increased after the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado in 1864, bringing more troops to the post, which was by now called Platte Bridge Station. In July 1865, Lieutenant Caspar Collins (the son of Colonel Collins) was killed near the post by a group of Indian warriors. Three months later the garrison was renamed Fort Caspar after Lieutenant Collins

Douglas was officially founded in 1886 when the Wyoming Central Railway (later the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company) established a railway station; however, the settlement had been in existence since 1867 when Fort Fetterman was built and was first known as “Tent City”[5] before it was officially named "Douglas", after Senator Stephen A. Douglas.

[Froggie Legs]

Where was the location of the first cabin to be built in Wyoming, in what year, by whom, what was it made out of (two specific things), and last but not least, what were the dimensions given?

That will, I hope, give someone a bit of a sleuth challenge

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by Froggie Legs

Where was the location of the first cabin to be built in Wyoming, in what year, by whom, what was it made out of (two specific things), and last but not least, what were the dimensions given?

That will, I hope, give someone a bit of a sleuth challenge

Bessemer Bend and it was built in 1812 by Robert Stuart.

Robert Stuart, Benjamin Jones, François LeClerc, André Vallé, John Day, Ramsay Crooks, and Robert McClellan

cabin is 8 feet by 18 [wide] with the fire in the middle after the Indian fashion the sides are 3 feet high and the whole covered with Buffaloe skins.

[Froggie Legs]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

Bessemer Bend and it was built in 1812 by Robert Stuart.

Robert Stuart, Benjamin Jones, François LeClerc, André Vallé, John Day, Ramsay Crooks, and Robert McClellan

cabin is 8 feet by 18 [wide] with the fire in the middle after the Indian fashion the sides are 3 feet high and the whole covered with Buffaloe skins.

What was the cabin itself made out of?

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

Bessemer Bend and it was built in 1812 by Robert Stuart.

Robert Stuart, Benjamin Jones, François LeClerc, André Vallé, John Day, Ramsay Crooks, and Robert McClellan

cabin is 8 feet by 18 [wide] with the fire in the middle after the Indian fashion the sides are 3 feet high and the whole covered with Buffaloe skins.

Originally Posted by Froggie Legs

What was the cabin itself made out of?

I guess that wasn't it? That's all the data I could find and none of the places told me what materials, except what is stated in my original answer.

[Froggie Legs]

Ohhhh okay, I can give it to you.. but actually the source I have found lists the building material as stone.
"

It was the first white man’s cabin built in Wyoming. It was Robert Stuart, a partner in the Astor Fur Company, who led a group of seven fur trappers and traders through the uncharted Wyoming territory in 1812. In fact, it was this group, known as the Astorians, that are credited with finding South Pass. South Pass was the critical opening in the mountains in southwestern Wyoming that would feed emigrants along the Oregon Trail into the Oregon Territory. Stuart and the Astorians were actually moving eastward, they had left the Oregon Territory, and were destined for St. Louis, when in November, 1812, they were forced to stop and hunker—down for winter.
That’s when Stuart and his six companions built the very first white man’s cabin within the present—day boudaries of Wyoming. The Astorians had just traversed the Shining Mountains, now known as the Rocky Mountains, and had been traveling along the North Platte River, when they stopped at a spot where Poison Spider Creek empties into the North Platte, just west of present—day Casper, Wyoming, very near Bessemer Bend.
Stuart’s Cabin was built of stone, with a buffalo—hide roof. It was 8 feet wide, 18 feet long, and just 3 feet high. There was a hole in the hide roof to let smoke escape. Stuart and his crew would stay at the cabin for just one month. Stuart had been paid a visit by Arapahos, and had learned of Crow Indians nearby, and the Astorians decided to move on. They left the cabin and proceeded to present-day Torrington, Wyoming."

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by Froggie Legs

Ohhhh okay, I can give it to you.. but actually the source I have found lists the building material as stone.
"

Stone makes a lot of sense in that area. Thanks Froggie, here's the new one.

At one time, Wyoming wanted to break into two parts. One part was going to join parts of two other states. What was this new state going to be called? What year? What were the other two states?

They went so far as to make new license plates and everything.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

At one time, Wyoming wanted to break into two parts. One part was going to join parts of two other states. What was this new state going to be called? What year? What were the other two states?

They went so far as to make new license plates and everything.

Hint: It wasn't until the 1930's. The name selected for the new state name has been discussed, numerous times in the Wyoming Forum.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

At one time, Wyoming wanted to break into two parts. One part was going to join parts of two other states. What was this new state going to be called? What year? What were the other two states?

They went so far as to make new license plates and everything.

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

Hint: It wasn't until the 1930's. The name selected for the new state name has been discussed, numerous times in the Wyoming Forum.

2nd Hint: Wyomings 24th County is the name.

[Rabbidave]

Wyoming was renamed to Wisconsin?