Cow Town, Coal Town & Boom Town - Gillette Wyoming
Our history series continues as we take a look at some of the rougher times in our areas history. Gillette Wyoming went from cow town to coal town and eventually to boom town with some growing pains involved.
From bad press, to bad people, Gillette has grown wiser and better and became a great place to call home.
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PO Box 667
Gillette WY 82717
Join us on our journey as we leave a life in corporate america to come back to Wyoming and help on the family ranch.
Our Wyoming Life features our Wyoming ranch and our ranch family. Giving you a look into the workings of ranching from raising cattle to raising and harvesting crops. Erin will join you weekly out of the garden, showing you how she helps provide for our family through growing produce and selling at local farmers markets, and Mike will take you along as he tends to the animals and land of ranch, from calving to fencing to planting and harvesting hay.
Q&A Heart Mountain, Health Care, and Citizens United at Fall 2012 Saturday U
Q&A Heart Mountain, Health Care, and Citizens United at Fall 2012 Saturday U
September 26, 2012 (UW News Services) —
After a morning of classes, participants at the Fall 2012 Saturday had the opportunity to ask questions while enjoying a free lunch. Below is a description of Saturday U and the day's events.
What remains of Wyoming's World War II Heart Mountain Japanese-American Relocation Center? What does health care reform mean for Wyoming residents? How has the Supreme Court reshaped the political landscape for election 2012?
Three University of Wyoming professors will answer those questions at Saturday U -- the university's free one-day college education program -- from 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, in the National Museum of Wildlife Art Cook Auditorium in Jackson.
Saturday U is a collaborative program that connects popular UW professors with lifelong learners in Jackson Hole. Offered twice a year, Saturday U is sponsored by the university, the UW Foundation and Wyoming Humanities Council; and presented by Central Wyoming College, the National Museum of Wildlife Art and Teton County Library Foundation.
Listed are program topic descriptions and UW representatives lecturing. Individuals can attend any or all of the sessions.
9-10 a.m. -- Wyoming's Heart Mountain Relocation Center: A Living Legacy, Eric Sandeen, professor and chair, UW American Studies Program. During World War II, more than 14,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were detained in barracks at the Heart Mountain Center between Cody and Powell in Park County. After the war, eager homesteaders carted off these temporary structures and incorporated them into local farms and ranches. Many remain to this day -- some easily identifiable, others thoroughly disguised as homes, sheds and out buildings.
What do these buildings reveal? Sandeen asks. How did their inhabitants change the character of the Big Horn Basin?
10:15-11:15 a.m. -- What Does Health Care Reform Mean for Wyoming? Health Exchanges, Medicaid & Provider Challenges, Anne Alexander, economist and director of International Programs. The Affordable Care Act and healthcare provision present special challenges to Wyoming. Many parts of the Cowboy State have extremely limited access to primary care, and the state's small population presents challenges for financing insurance pools as well as recruiting and retaining primary care providers. What are the challenges and long-term trends for health care in Wyoming, from financing to workforce needs?
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. -- Election 2012: Democracy in the Wake of the Citizens United Decision, Jim King, professor and head of the Department of Political Science. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission altered the landscape of campaign finance, opened the door for the creation of Super PACs, and generated volumes of commentary about the decision's effect on the political process. What did the court say in Citizens United and how has the electoral process been changed as a result? What are the myths and realities of campaign financing today?
12:45-1:45 p.m. -- Lunch and roundtable with all three speakers, plus audience question-and-answer session in the Wapiti Gallery.
For more information about Saturday U, visit the website at uwyo.edu/SaturdayU/ or contact Teton County Library adult humanities Coordinator Oona Doherty at (307) 733-2164, ext. 135; or email odoherty@tclib.org.
Video by UW Television, Outreach Technology Services
Camera/Editor: Ali Grossman apg@uwyo.edu
Copyright 2012 UW Television
Ranger of the Lost Art
Learn about rediscovery of the WPA/Federal Art Project poster series and the continued tradition today. Artists Doug Leen and Brian Maebius discuss the history of the program and how, using one surviving poster and photographs found through 20 years of research, they painstakingly reconstructed the original set. Today over 30 national parks are represented through their contemporary designs.
Cultural Landscape of the Upper Tongue River Valley in Rosebud County, Montana (2007-12)
Birney, Montana is one of the West's most historic and well-preserved ranching communities.
Located in the upper Tongue River drainage, Birney is a place where families still raise horses, ranch cattle and grow hay, remaining on land settled by their ancestors four and five generations ago.
Settled in the early 1800′s, after the U.S. Army's war with the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians had ended, the upper Tongue River valley is also a landscape filled with ancient archaeological sites and traditional places important to the history and culture of the Cheyenne, Crow, and Lakota people.
This documentary tells one piece of the Upper Tongue River story, the history of the Birney ranching community in the words of the people who call Birney home. We thank all the people who made it possible to collect and tell this story.