February 22

1847 General Santa Anna surrounds the outnumbered forces of U.S. General Zachary Taylor at the Angostura Pass in Mexico and demands an immediate surrender. Taylor declines the offer to surrender.

1897  President Cleveland issues a proclamation establishing the Big Horn National Forest.  Attribution:  On This Day.

1899  The 1st Nebraska U.S. Volunteer Infantry and the Wyoming Battalion, volunteers, engaged Philippine insurgents near Deposito.  The action commenced at 0615 when the Wyoming Battalion, which deployed about two hours earlier, encountered Philippine insurgents and opened fire.  The action was sharp with results being generally inconclusive.

1913  Twelfth Legislative session concluded.

1917   The Cheyenne State Leader for February 22, 1917: Denver Guard Protest "Silly"

People were getting embarrassed about the snit over the location for the demobilization of the Colorado National Guard.

And the importation of booze from "wet" states to "dry" ones was getting Federal attention.

Pershing's rise continued, in the wake of the death of Gen. Funston.  And a terrible crime happened in Cheyenne.

1918  Montana's legislature passes a Sedition Law that severely restricts freedom of speech and assembly.

1919  Fifteenth Legislative session concluded.

1919  February 22, 1919. Marching home, Germany ablaze and no Carey County.

The Saturday Evening Post featured a Rockwell portrayal of a stout looking American veteran marching with admiring young boys.  The hyper patriotic and hyper romantic portrayal doesn't portray the veteran as bemused by the display, which in reality would have been the likely reaction.

The stout child in the lead is wearing the type of service coat that the Boy Scouts still did at that time.

It's odd to think that in any such real world crowd, the children depicted here would have had a fairly high chance of seeing service in the Second World War.

While soldiers were returning, newspapers all over the country carried the frightening news that Germany seemed to be descending again into full scale civil war.

That sudden revived slide was caused by the assassination of Kurt Eisner in Bavaria, after which radical socialist and communists took action to seize the Bavarian government, only lately a monarchy, and proclaim it to be a "Soviet" republic that following April. Eisner was a socialist himself but was in the process of resigning his role in government when a right wing assassin took his life.  Government in Bavaria became chaotic as a result and for approximately one month the large important German state was ruled by a communist cabal in Munich until the Freikorps put it down in their characteristic fashion.

A communist revolution in Bavaria was always a highly odd thing in the first place as the state itself was quit conservative and heavily Catholic.  Munich was the exception, and would prove the exception again as the center of Nazi activity only shortly later.

At the same time as it appeared an internecine war was about to break out in Germany, the League of Nations was gaining real opposition in the United States.

Wyomingites also read that the legislature was wrapping up, which is usually a time of relief for all.  The legislature did not get around to approving a Carey County and therefore Governor Carey didn't have the opportunity to sign into law a county named after his father.  Indeed, such a county would never come into being.

1941  Twenty Sixth Legislative session concluded.

2012  High winds closed numerous roads around Wyoming, including:

I-80 Corridor
Rock Springs - I-80 between Rock Springs and Point of Rocks - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Patrick Draw - I-80 between Point of Rocks and Exit 142, Bitter Creek - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Patrick Draw - I-80 between Exit 142, Bitter Creek and Exit 158, Tipton Rd - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Wamsutter - I-80 between Exit 158, Tipton Rd and Wamsutter - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Wamsutter - I-80 between Wamsutter and Exit 187, Creston Jct - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Rawlins - I-80 between Exit 187, Creston Jct and Rawlins - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Rawlins - I-80 between Rawlins and Exit 235, Walcott Jct	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Elk Mountain - I-80 between Exit 235, Walcott Jct and Exit 255, WY 72	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Elk Mountain - I-80 between Exit 255, WY 72 and Exit 267, Wagonhound Rd	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Arlington - I-80 between Exit 267, Wagonhound Rd and Arlington	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Arlington - I-80 between Arlington and Exit 279, Cooper Cove Rd	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Laramie - I-80 between Exit 279, Cooper Cove Rd and Laramie	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Laramie - I-80 between Laramie and Exit 323, Happy Jack Rd - WESTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Laramie - I-80 between Exit 323, Happy Jack Rd and Exit 335, Buford - WESTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Cheyenne - I-80 between Exit 335, Buford and Exit 342, Harriman Rd - WESTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Cheyenne - I-80 between Exit 342, Harriman and Cheyenne - WESTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
I-25 Corridor
Chugwater - I-25 between Exit 29, Whitaker Rd and Chugwater	Feb. 22, 2012 06:49am
Chugwater - I-25 between Chugwater and Exit 73, WY 34	Feb. 22, 2012 06:49am
Wheatland - I-25 between Exit 73, WY 34 and Wheatland	Feb. 22, 2012 06:49am
Non-Interstate Routes
US 26
Jackson - US 26/89/191 between Moose and Moran Jct	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
US 30
Rock Springs - I-80 between Rock Springs and Point of Rocks - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Patrick Draw - I-80 between Point of Rocks and Exit 142, Bitter Creek - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Patrick Draw - I-80 between Exit 142, Bitter Creek and Exit 158, Tipton Rd - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Wamsutter - I-80 between Exit 158, Tipton Rd and Wamsutter - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Wamsutter - I-80 between Wamsutter and Exit 187, Creston Jct - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Rawlins - I-80 between Exit 187, Creston Jct and Rawlins - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Rawlins - I-80 between Rawlins and Exit 235, Walcott Jct	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Medicine Bow - US 30/287 between Hanna Jct and Medicine Bow	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Medicine Bow - US 30/287 between Medicine Bow and Rock River	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Laramie - US 30/287 between Rock River and WY 34	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Laramie - I-80 between Laramie and Exit 323, Happy Jack Rd - WESTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Laramie - I-80 between Exit 323, Happy Jack Rd and Exit 335, Buford - WESTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Cheyenne - I-80 between Exit 335, Buford and Exit 342, Harriman Rd - WESTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Cheyenne - I-80 between Exit 342, Harriman and Cheyenne - WESTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
US 87
Chugwater - I-25 between Exit 29, Whitaker Rd and Chugwater	Feb. 22, 2012 06:49am
Chugwater - I-25 between Chugwater and Exit 73, WY 34	Feb. 22, 2012 06:49am
Wheatland - I-25 between Exit 73, WY 34 and Wheatland	Feb. 22, 2012 06:49am
US 89
Jackson - US 26/89/191 between Moose and Moran Jct	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
US 191
Rock Springs - US 191 between the Utah State Line and I-80	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
Jackson - US 26/89/191 between Moose and Moran Jct	Feb. 22, 2012 06:43am
US 287
Laramie - US 30/287 between Rock River and WY 34	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Medicine Bow - US 30/287 between Medicine Bow and Rock River	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Medicine Bow - US 30/287 between Hanna Jct and Medicine Bow	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Rawlins - I-80 between Rawlins and Exit 235, Walcott Jct	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Rawlins - US 287 / WY 789 between Rawlins and Mile Marker 23	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
WY 34
Laramie - WY 34 between Bosler and the Platte/Albany Cty Line	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Wheatland - WY 34 between the Platte/Albany Cty Line and I-25	Feb. 22, 2012 06:49am
WY 130
Laramie - WY 130 between Mile Marker 35, Westbound Closure Gate and Centennial	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Laramie - WY 130 between Centennial and Laramie	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
WY 210
Laramie - WY 210 between Curt Gowdy State Park and I-80	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
WY 321
Chugwater - WY 321 between Chugwater and I-25	Feb. 22, 2012 06:49am
WY 789
Rawlins - I-80 between Exit 187, Creston Jct and Rawlins - EASTBOUND	Feb. 22, 2012 06:46am
Rawlins - US 287 / WY 789 between Rawlins and Mile Marker 23