So, jest wonderin' ...... do people who work in golf resorts get to take vacations? If so, there's a ton of great stuff to do up here in NW Wyoming too.....come on up and I'll let you help me clean the chicken coop, then we can have a barbeque on the deck. We'll set up Motel 5 1/2 for ya, and the next morning we can head for Yellowstone, or the Wild Horse Range (that's just a few miles from us) go fossil hunting in the Pryors, spend the day up on the Big Horns.....you pick!! All of those places are day trips from Oleo Acres.
Okay, a few interesting facts about my adopted state:
Firsts, for women:
Wyoming's first territorial governor, John Campbell, signed a bill granting women the right to vote, own property, sign legal documents and make that signature as binding as a man's, and hold public office. That was in 1869.
First woman Justice of the Peace in South Pass City, 1870
First all-woman jury, 1870, in Laramie.
First woman court bailiff in the entire world, 1870, Albany County
First woman state official - Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1894
First town governed entirely by woman, Jackson - Mayor, Town Council and town marshall.
First woman governor in the US, she served from 1925 until 1927, then in 1933 President Roosevelt appointed her as the first woman to head the US mint, which she held until 1953.
Other Firsts:
1st US Forest Ranger Station
1st. National Park (Yellowstone)
1st National Forest (Shoshone)
1st National Monument (Devil's Tower)
1st National Wild Horse Range
1st Business west of the Missouri River (Laramie, 1834)
1st State to have a county library system
JC Penney's opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1st Evening interscholastic football game to be played under artificial lights.
Interesting facts:
The Red Desert in South Central Wyoming doesn't drain either to the east or the west. The Continental Divide splits there and runs around the desert on all sides, so the Basin has no drainage.
The Wind River and the Big Horn River are actually the same river with two different names, and it flows through the Wind River Canyon south of Thermopolis, Wyoming. The point where the river widens slightly and changes names is known as "The Wedding of the Waters." It is one of the few rivers in the world which changes names midstream.
Thermopolis, Wyoming, is almost as thermal an area as Yellowstone Park. It boasts the largest mineral springs, and admission is free to all. There are even a few cones formed by mineral deposits as hot water bubbled up from the earth dotted throughout the town, and they still have hot water coming out of them, adding to the height of the mineral cones.
http://www.wyomingtourism.org/things-to ... -Park/2507
The rock on top of Heart Mountain, just outside of Cody, is 300 MILLION years older than the rock formation it sits on. Geologists are still trying to figure out how that happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Mountain_(Wyoming)
Okay, a few interesting facts about my adopted state:
Firsts, for women:
Wyoming's first territorial governor, John Campbell, signed a bill granting women the right to vote, own property, sign legal documents and make that signature as binding as a man's, and hold public office. That was in 1869.
First woman Justice of the Peace in South Pass City, 1870
First all-woman jury, 1870, in Laramie.
First woman court bailiff in the entire world, 1870, Albany County
First woman state official - Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1894
First town governed entirely by woman, Jackson - Mayor, Town Council and town marshall.
First woman governor in the US, she served from 1925 until 1927, then in 1933 President Roosevelt appointed her as the first woman to head the US mint, which she held until 1953.
Other Firsts:
1st US Forest Ranger Station
1st. National Park (Yellowstone)
1st National Forest (Shoshone)
1st National Monument (Devil's Tower)
1st National Wild Horse Range
1st Business west of the Missouri River (Laramie, 1834)
1st State to have a county library system
JC Penney's opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1st Evening interscholastic football game to be played under artificial lights.
Interesting facts:
The Red Desert in South Central Wyoming doesn't drain either to the east or the west. The Continental Divide splits there and runs around the desert on all sides, so the Basin has no drainage.
The Wind River and the Big Horn River are actually the same river with two different names, and it flows through the Wind River Canyon south of Thermopolis, Wyoming. The point where the river widens slightly and changes names is known as "The Wedding of the Waters." It is one of the few rivers in the world which changes names midstream.
Thermopolis, Wyoming, is almost as thermal an area as Yellowstone Park. It boasts the largest mineral springs, and admission is free to all. There are even a few cones formed by mineral deposits as hot water bubbled up from the earth dotted throughout the town, and they still have hot water coming out of them, adding to the height of the mineral cones.
http://www.wyomingtourism.org/things-to ... -Park/2507
The rock on top of Heart Mountain, just outside of Cody, is 300 MILLION years older than the rock formation it sits on. Geologists are still trying to figure out how that happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Mountain_(Wyoming)
