1804 The Corps of Discovery leaves St. Louis to explore Louisiana. Louisiana had only belonged to the US, at that point, for one year.
1836 Treaties of Velasco executed by General Antonio López de Santa Anna and Texas provisional president David Burnett recognizing the independence of Texas. It did not fix the boundaries of Texas and Mexico refused to recognize the treaty. Attribution: On This Day.
1890 Weston County elects its first County officers.
1906 The Uinta County Library opened in Evanston. Attribution: On This Day.
1918 Hazime Fukuda of Arminto awarded a patent for a rice based breakfast food.
1987 McDonald Ranch in Laramie County added to the National Registry of Historic Places.
2007 Trappers Point Site in Sublette County added to the National Registry of Historic Places.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
March 12
1836 The Battle of Refugio commences in the Texas revolution. Attribution: On This Day.
1886 The Legislature appropriated $500.00 for Governor William Hale's funeral and for a monument in his honor. Attribution: On This Day.
1888 Territorial Governor Thomas Moonlight hires the legendary Elwood Mead as state engineer. Mead was the founder of Wyoming's water law, which he worked on from the period of 1888 to 1899. He also worked on Colorado's water law during this period. In 1907 he was appointed Chairman of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission in Victoria Australia. He returned to the US in 1911 and became a professor of Rural Institutions at the University of California. He lead the Bureau of Reclamation in the Coolidge Administration. Lake Mead is named after him.
1886 The Legislature appropriated $500.00 for Governor William Hale's funeral and for a monument in his honor. Attribution: On This Day.
1888 Territorial Governor Thomas Moonlight hires the legendary Elwood Mead as state engineer. Mead was the founder of Wyoming's water law, which he worked on from the period of 1888 to 1899. He also worked on Colorado's water law during this period. In 1907 he was appointed Chairman of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission in Victoria Australia. He returned to the US in 1911 and became a professor of Rural Institutions at the University of California. He lead the Bureau of Reclamation in the Coolidge Administration. Lake Mead is named after him.
1890 Big Horn and Weston Counties created.
1917 Buffalo Bill Memorial Association created. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1917 The Laramie Boomerang for March 12, 1917: Laramie Guardsmen to arrive on No. 19.
On Monday March 12, the news came that the Laramie contribution to the Wyoming National Guard had been mustered out of service and taken down to the Union Pacific depot in Cheyenne.
1918 Arthur D. Gilbert of Lost Cabin received a patent for a fish hook.
1917 Buffalo Bill Memorial Association created. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1917 The Laramie Boomerang for March 12, 1917: Laramie Guardsmen to arrive on No. 19.
On Monday March 12, the news came that the Laramie contribution to the Wyoming National Guard had been mustered out of service and taken down to the Union Pacific depot in Cheyenne.
The unit was expected in Laramie that evening.
1918 Arthur D. Gilbert of Lost Cabin received a patent for a fish hook.
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his radio "fireside chats".
1944 Nineteen cars of a Union Pacific train derailed near the location of old Ft.Steele. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
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