This entry more likely belongs at our Today In Wyoming's History blog, as it isn't so much of a church item (well maybe it is) as a history item. Note how particularly early this Oregon Trail event was, 1836. Well before the big flood of travelers starting going over the trail in the late 1840s.
1863 John Bozeman leaves Ft. Laramie to scout a trail to the Yellowstone Valley. The trail would become the Bozeman Trail.
1876 The Army commences to inform the widows of the Little Big Horn Battle of the loss of their husbands at Ft. Abraham Lincoln.
1890 The streetcar line in Cheyenne running from Capitol Ave. to Lake Minnehaha completed. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1899 The Wyoming Battalion received its orders in the Philippines to return to the U.S. Attribution: On This Day.
1918 Because the Germans doing it seemed like such a good idea? Now the Allies opt for intervening in Russia.
And Woodrow Wilson decided that the U.S. would participate in it, over the objections of Army which advised against it.
Everything about Russia during World War One has a certain pipe dream quality to it. The Western Allies had hoped from day one that the giant nation would prove to be a vital and decisive ally. It did turn out to be a handful for the Germans, who ultimately defeated it, but the German hopes for what they had defeated and their greed meant that the fruits of that victory were never realized.
Following Russia's collapse into civil war the Allies hoped that the situation could be restored and a new republican government would rejoin the war, a hope that was folly at best. Ultimately that hope lead to the decision to intervene in Russian affairs, putting the Allies into the extraordinary position of fielding expeditionary forces that would deploy direction into a civil war when, at that very time, the Allies were on the verge of loosing the war themselves on the Western Front.
Perhaps it is somewhat understandable, but only somewhat. There was really no earthly way that Russia was coming back into World War One. Moreover, the force needed to insure a quick White Victory, which is what would have been necessary to achieve that result, just wasn't there. . . which suggests that the Allies thought the Reds weren't really as powerful in 1918 as they were. Not that they were not challenged, to be sure. The Whites were also powerful at that time and the Communist government had seen an uprising on July 6 and 7 from the left, in the form of an attempted seizure of the government by the Left Socialist Revolutionaries. Russia was a mess.
But the Allies, in the midst of the largest war since the Napoleonic Wars, weren't going to be able to reverse that.
Indeed, in the American Army's case, they weren't even going to be given a clear mission.
Everything about Russia during World War One has a certain pipe dream quality to it. The Western Allies had hoped from day one that the giant nation would prove to be a vital and decisive ally. It did turn out to be a handful for the Germans, who ultimately defeated it, but the German hopes for what they had defeated and their greed meant that the fruits of that victory were never realized.
Following Russia's collapse into civil war the Allies hoped that the situation could be restored and a new republican government would rejoin the war, a hope that was folly at best. Ultimately that hope lead to the decision to intervene in Russian affairs, putting the Allies into the extraordinary position of fielding expeditionary forces that would deploy direction into a civil war when, at that very time, the Allies were on the verge of loosing the war themselves on the Western Front.
Perhaps it is somewhat understandable, but only somewhat. There was really no earthly way that Russia was coming back into World War One. Moreover, the force needed to insure a quick White Victory, which is what would have been necessary to achieve that result, just wasn't there. . . which suggests that the Allies thought the Reds weren't really as powerful in 1918 as they were. Not that they were not challenged, to be sure. The Whites were also powerful at that time and the Communist government had seen an uprising on July 6 and 7 from the left, in the form of an attempted seizure of the government by the Left Socialist Revolutionaries. Russia was a mess.
But the Allies, in the midst of the largest war since the Napoleonic Wars, weren't going to be able to reverse that.
Indeed, in the American Army's case, they weren't even going to be given a clear mission.
1922 Seven gamblers were arrested in Yoder, in the garage of a deputy sheriff. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1922. Thursday, July 6, 1922. Casper and Oil
1976 Frederic Hutchinson Porter, an architect responsible for the design of several important buildings in Cheyenne and a Cheyenne resident, died.
The big news in Casper was that the Texas Company, generally referred to as Texaco, was coming to Casper. It would build a refinery on the edge of what became Evansville, referred to in these articles as the lands belonging to the Evans Holding Company.
The refinery was one of three in operation here when I was young, including the giant Standard Oil Refinery and the Sinclair Refinery, the latter of which had been built originally by Husky Petroleum. Only the Sinclair Refinery remains in operation. The Texaco refinery closed in 1982. The Standard Oil Refinery closed for good in 1991.
1976 Frederic Hutchinson Porter, an architect responsible for the design of several important buildings in Cheyenne and a Cheyenne resident, died.
