Small Arms and Light Crew Served Weapons Collection, National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.
This is a sample of the collection. The collection is much larger than this.
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Saturday, September 21, 2013
September 21
1890 It was reported that every county in the state elected a female school superintendent. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1897 The New York Sun ran an editorial that answered a question from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon: "Is there a Santa Claus?" Suffice it to say, this annually run article was run a bit earlier in the year than generally supposed.
1904 Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph dies on the Colville reservation in northern Washington at the age of 64.
1909 Municipal natural gas service starts in Basin. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1916 The Cheyenne Leader for September 21, 1916. State Troops Expect Orders
During this week Wyoming would receive visits from both William Jennings Bryan and Charles Everett Hughes. Included in the big news, however, was that the Wyoming National Guard was expected to go to the border.
1917 The Wyoming National Guard had gone to the Mexican boarder as infantry. . .
and they'd been mobilized in 1917 as such as well.
But they wouldn't be going to France as infantry.
Today the news hit that the unit was being disbanded and reformed into artillery, machinegun, and ammunition train units.
I'm not sure what happened to the machinegun and ammunition train elements, or if those actually happened. They likely did. I do know, however, that the artillery unit was in fact formed and is strongly associated with the Wyoming Guard during the Great War.
This was not uncommon. As the Army grew, the Army would be taking a lot of smaller units such as this and reconstituting them as something else. Both Regular Army and Guard units experienced this.
It's hard to know what the men thought of this. A lot, but not all, had served and trained as infantry just the prior year along the border. Did they have a strong attachment to it? Hard to know. Were some relieved, perhaps, that their role, in some instances, wouldn't involve serving as infantrymen in the trenches? We don't know that either.
1918 A victory against the Turks . . . and the Flu spreads. Casper Daily Tribune, September 21, 1918.
1916 The Cheyenne Leader for September 21, 1916. State Troops Expect Orders
During this week Wyoming would receive visits from both William Jennings Bryan and Charles Everett Hughes. Included in the big news, however, was that the Wyoming National Guard was expected to go to the border.
1917 The Wyoming National Guard had gone to the Mexican boarder as infantry. . .
But they wouldn't be going to France as infantry.
Today the news hit that the unit was being disbanded and reformed into artillery, machinegun, and ammunition train units.
I'm not sure what happened to the machinegun and ammunition train elements, or if those actually happened. They likely did. I do know, however, that the artillery unit was in fact formed and is strongly associated with the Wyoming Guard during the Great War.
This was not uncommon. As the Army grew, the Army would be taking a lot of smaller units such as this and reconstituting them as something else. Both Regular Army and Guard units experienced this.
It's hard to know what the men thought of this. A lot, but not all, had served and trained as infantry just the prior year along the border. Did they have a strong attachment to it? Hard to know. Were some relieved, perhaps, that their role, in some instances, wouldn't involve serving as infantrymen in the trenches? We don't know that either.
1918 A victory against the Turks . . . and the Flu spreads. Casper Daily Tribune, September 21, 1918.
1920 A committee of Dubois businessmen was formed to support road and other improvement efforts. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
Dubois in 1920
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