1866 Nelson Story and his hands arrive in the Gallitin Valley thereby completing the first cattle drive from Texas to Montana. The drive in its final stages was completed against order from the Army, after he passed Ft. Phil Kearney, due to Indian hostilities. His men engaged in fights with the Indians along the way. The result of his efforts was the establishment of a successful Montana ranch a good four years prior to another drive of this type.
1867 The first soldier to be interred at the Ft. D. A. Russell Cemetery was.
1877 Former Wyoming Territorial Governor John Campbell appointed American Consul at Basel, Switzerland.
1888 Ella Watson applied for the WT brand. Her application was rejected.
1890 School was canceled in Rawlins due to insufficient water for the school's boiler. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1899 A fire at Ft. Washakie destroyed three buildings. Ft. Washakie was still an Army utilized installation at that time, as well as being the seat of government for the Wind River Reservation, which it still is.
1901 US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
1916 The Cheyenne State Leader for December 3, 1916. Carranza sets to take on Villa and Teachers take on booze.
On Sunday December 3, readers in Cheyenne were perhaps a bit relieved to find that Carranza's forces seemed to be rallying, perhaps meaning that National Guardsmen at the border wouldn't be finding Villistas crossing back over into the United States.
At the same time, teachers came out in favor of Prohibition.
That doesn't really surprise me, and indeed strikes me as natural. I'm not a teetotaler but its rather obvious that alcohol creates a flood of societal problems, quite a few of which teachers have to deal with daily.
Along those lines, it amazes me that in our current era we've not only come to regard the concerns that lead to Prohibition as being quaint and naive, but we're out trying to legalize ever intoxicant we can. Related back to the concerns of the teachers in 1916, just this past week a 19 year old died in this town of, it appears, complications due to the ingestion of an illegal drug. It would seem that the intoxicants that are legal now are quite enough really.
1918 December 3, 1918: Americans in Germany, Wilson to Europe, Women out the workplace door.
Col Charles Howland and staff, Germany, December 3, 1918. Note the Chaplain, far left.
12th Division at Camp Devens, Massachusetts, December 3, 1918. Part of the National Army, it wold be demobilized by the end of January 1919.
The news of the day was pretty typical for the immediate post war. One item to note, however. Strikers employed by a railway in Ohio were demanding that the railway fire its women employees. Chances are that the women were wartime hires and the men wanted them to go, now that the war was over, and their conscripted colleges would be returning. The railway apparently had ignored a prior promise to let them go.
And Wilson's troubles with some members of Congress were becoming more and more evident.
1919 December 3, 1919. The Carlisle News Hits the Press.
Banner headlines appeared in the local press on this day in 1919.
It was a sad end, as we related yesterday.
And already it was noted his wound was not fatal.
And so this phase of the story concluded.
1924 Oil strike near Lovell.
1944 It was reported that a serviceman from Tensleep had asked for his mother to send coffee. Attribution, Wyoming State Archives.
1979 A Western airlines 737 bound for Sheridan landed by mistake at Buffalo.
2014 Colorado's Governor Hickenlooper apologized to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes for Colorado's actions leading to the November 29, 1864 Sand Creek Massacre.
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