1839 Stephen Wheeler Downey was born in Westport Maryland. He served as a officer in the Union Army up until the Battle of Harpers Ferry, at which he was wounded. Thereafter he resumed his studies and was admitted to the Washington D.C. bar in 1863. In 1869 he moved to Wyoming where he practiced law, usually as a prosecutor, for the balance of his life, save for a period of time in which he was a territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress. He also operated a survey office. As a member of Wyoming's legislature, he introduced the bill sponsoring the University of Wyoming in 1886 and is therefore regarded as the Father of the University of Wyoming. Downey Hall at the University is named after him.
1865 Lt. Bretney of Company G, 11th Ohio Cavalry, leaves Sweetwater Station with Cpt. A. Smyth Lybe of the 3d U.S. Vol. Infantry to go to Ft. Laramie, about 150 miles away, to collect their units pay. On the way they learn of the presence of Indian activity. They encounter Sgt. Amos Custard of the 11th Kansas Cavalry with a party of wagons about 25 miles west of Platte Bridge Station and encourage him to proceed on that day with them, but Custard refuses on the basis that his animals were tired. Bretney and Smyth would not arrive at Platte Bridge Station until 2:00 am.
1865 Sioux and Cheyenne attacked "Camp Dodge" near present day Casper. Attribution: On This Day.
1868 Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
1895 Bannock Indians surround 250 settlers in Jackson Hole but are dispersed by the 9th Cavalry. This was part of the Bannock War of 1895, which was spared by the State of Wyoming prohibiting the killing of elk for their teeth and the subsequent arrest of several Bannock hunters that year.
Bannock Indians in Jackson's Hole by Frederic Remington.
1904 The Wyoming Humane Society was incorporated.Generally, Humane Societies did not have the same focus at the time, as they do now. Indeed, a major effort of early humane organizations was in providing water for urban horses.
1910 A moderate earthquake near Rock Springs shook houses and could be felt in mine shafts.
1918 Letter From The Hygeia Antiseptic Toothpick Company to The United States Food Administrator Regarding Sugar. July 25, 1918 (from National Archive's "Today's Document" blog)
Checking on on what we in Wyoming were doing about sugar consumption. . . .
1918 The Allies Intervene In Embattled Russia
Finding an actual date, at least on the net, for the commencement of the Allied intervention in Russia is difficult. Generally, you'll just get "July, 1918".
Well, whatever the actual date was, it was obviously close to this day in 1918, as the Soviets were complaining about Allied landings on Murman Coast, near Murmansk. That was in fact one of the two three locations for the Allied intervention and it may well have been the first location.
The landings near Murmansk would be made up of a joint Anglo American force of which 5,000 men were American troops. 6,000 were English, 1000 Canadian and approximately another 1,000 or so were French. The force was under the overall command of an English commander and it actively participated in combat in the region, which was generally contrary to the vague instructions that the Administration had issued to the American forces that were going into Russia. The fact that they were engaged in combat was not due to insubordination so much as it was due to poor communication of the intended restrictions on American troops.
A little over 160 Americans would loose their lives in the intervention, far fewer than the British loss which amounted to over 500. It's always been speculated that some Americans may have been left behind due to the hasty nature of the withdrawal in 1919. Following that withdrawal, White resistance in Northern Russia, which was not doing well by that time in any event, collapsed.
Because, of course, the Kreigsmarine couldn't have pulled that off on their own. . . .
1918 Letter From The Hygeia Antiseptic Toothpick Company to The United States Food Administrator Regarding Sugar. July 25, 1918 (from National Archive's "Today's Document" blog)
Checking on on what we in Wyoming were doing about sugar consumption. . . .
1918 The Allies Intervene In Embattled Russia
Finding an actual date, at least on the net, for the commencement of the Allied intervention in Russia is difficult. Generally, you'll just get "July, 1918".
Well, whatever the actual date was, it was obviously close to this day in 1918, as the Soviets were complaining about Allied landings on Murman Coast, near Murmansk. That was in fact one of the two three locations for the Allied intervention and it may well have been the first location.
The landings near Murmansk would be made up of a joint Anglo American force of which 5,000 men were American troops. 6,000 were English, 1000 Canadian and approximately another 1,000 or so were French. The force was under the overall command of an English commander and it actively participated in combat in the region, which was generally contrary to the vague instructions that the Administration had issued to the American forces that were going into Russia. The fact that they were engaged in combat was not due to insubordination so much as it was due to poor communication of the intended restrictions on American troops.
A little over 160 Americans would loose their lives in the intervention, far fewer than the British loss which amounted to over 500. It's always been speculated that some Americans may have been left behind due to the hasty nature of the withdrawal in 1919. Following that withdrawal, White resistance in Northern Russia, which was not doing well by that time in any event, collapsed.
that submarine in Cape Cod, that is.
Of course, German residents of that area had to be helping. . . . right?
Another example of the degree of ethnic paranoia in the US during World War One.
Floods struck Thermopolis after having struck Natrona County only recently.
President Harding went fishing at the Campbell River in British Columbia.
1925 Vice President Charles Dawes visited the set of the movie The Pony Express in Cheyenne.
1962 Caroline Lockhart dies in Cody. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1977 Captain Charles M. Carter, a Thunderbird USAF pilot, was killed when his T-38 crashed at the Cheyenne airport.
2001 The Queen's Laundry Bath House in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone
National Park added to the National Register of Historic Places. Attribution: On This Day.
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