The National Historic Trails Center
Wyoming Chronicle visits the National Historic Trails Center in Casper. The Center has been providing visitors with valuable and interesting information regarding the Oregon, California, Mormon and Pony-Express Trails for over a decade.
My Oregon Trail Adventure - RV Road Trip Intro
Here's an intro video of my RV road trip following the Oregon Trail from Independence, MO to Pendleton OR. I took this trip in May & June of 2017.
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Riding a Wagon Across the River at the National Historic Trails Center
On this Airstream Life vLog, we head to the National Historic Trails Center in Casper Wyoming. This is a free museum run by the BLM. It was a great stop! The artwork was beautiful, the exhibits taught us a lot, and there was a lot of interactive information which we love! I got to ride a covered wagon across the river, luckily I made it safely across ;) Afterward, we headed into downtown Casper to try and catch an event at Davis Street Station. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see the movie we had planned, but it was still a fun evening exploring the city.
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Road Trip: Following The Oregon Trail
Last year I stumbled on the diaries of women who had travelled the Oregon Trail. My interests, up until then, had been ancient as well as modern Native American history. I travelled to many sacred places in the Western states.
Now I'm looking at history from a different point of view - that of the emmigrants. History from a white perspective is not foreign to any of us. But the voices of many people are not included in history as I was taught.
Having read many diaries and stories of women on the westward trails I wanted to see what they so often talked about seeing.
But I was travelling from the west, going east! This made following the trail a little tricky...and I consider this trip a preliminary. I'll be coming back this way again!
This video is a little introduction to the trail. In the following weeks I will present sections of the trail, what I saw and learned, and the experience of some of the early settlers. And I'll present it the right way...going from the east to the west.
It's been a lot of fun. It has taken much longer than I anticipated it would take but I am almost at the end. Or should I say the beginning?
Resources for this video in addition to my photos:
Covered Wagon Women, Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851, Volume 3 and 1852 Volume 4, University of Nebraska Press
Outlasting the Trail, The Story of a Woman's Journey West, by Mary Barneyer O'Brien, published by Two Dot
1920s CASPER WYOMING SALT CREEK OIL FIELD PETROLEUM PRODUCTION NITROGLYCERIN FRACKING 58314
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Made in the late 1920s or early 1930s, this silent movie made by the Burlington Railroad and titled Petroleum shows the oil industry in and around Casper, Wyoming including the Salt Creek Field. The Salt Creek Oil Field around the town of Midwest, Wyo., about 40 miles north of Casper, is still producing oil today and was at one time the largest producing oil field in the world. At 1:12 a sweeping panorama reveals the working field while at 1:25 hundreds of pipes -- possibly thousands -- await disposition. At 1:38 an oil well is constructed as a concrete foundation is laid. At 2:16 the steel tower is erected. At 2:30 the drill is ready for the drilling crew and at 2:40 drilling commences. At 3:24 a drill bit heads down into the shaft. At 4:05 nitroglycerin is prepared for shooting the well. This is a form of fracking that utilizes explosives -- using an iron container about the size of a large thermos, nitro, stick a blasting cap on it, send it down the well, and then send a weight down to detonate it. BOOM. At 6:07 a gusher is produced. At 6:30 pumpjacks are seen pumping oil into receiving tanks.At 7:40 the electrical plant powering everything is shown. At 8:25 a gas plant is shown. At 9:30 crude oil is pumped to a refinery 45 miles distant via a pipeline. Various stills where different types of refined product made are shown. At 12:00 a paraffin plant is shown. A million pounds of paraffin wax are shipped per week according to a title card. At 13:16 drums of oil are loaded for shipment on railroad boxcars. At 14:10 a worker cleans coke from the stills, an incredibly dirty job. At 14:40 coke is loaded by wheelbarrow into railroad cars. At 15:20 tank cars are filled with product. At 16:47 some of the staff of the Burlington Railroad are introduced including J.G. Grisinger, superintendent of the Casper Division. (According to an issue of the Burlington Hawk-Eye Gazette, Mr. Grisinger left the job at Casper in 1931 to take a job in Burlington, Iowa, so this dates the film to about 1930). Also shown is trainmaster Hinshaw, master mechanic Melker, agent G.S. Scott and others.
The Salt Creek Oil Field is located in Natrona County, Wyoming.[2] By 1970, more oil had been produced by this field than any other in the Rocky Mountains region and accounted for 20 percent of the total production in Wyoming.
Petroleum seeps in the area were known before 1880, but oil strikes near Lander led to claims by Schoonmaker and Iba. In 1889 the first well to strike oil was drilled in the Shannon pool by P.M. Shannon, president of the Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Company, who in 1895 built an oil refinery in Casper to process the oil. Dr. Porro, an Italian geologist working for the Dutch company Petroleum Maatschappij Salt Creek in 1906, located the Dutch No. 1 near a large oil seep south of the Shannon wells, which was drilled in 1908. The gusher well reached an oil sand after drilling through 1,000 feet (300 m) of shale.
In 1915, a portion of the Teapot Dome was made Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 3.
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National Frontier Trails Museum
Visit the National Frontier Trails Museum in Independence, Missouri and learn all about the Sante Fe, Oregon, and California Trails!
The Bozeman Trail: A Rush to Montana's Gold
The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. Cutting through the heart of Indian country. It became a flash point for a clash of cultures that would explode into warfare, destruction and tragedy. First telecast March, 2019.
Goodbye Colorado & Hello Wyoming & Horses!
On this Airstream Life vLog, we leave the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont and travel north just over the border to Terry Bison Ranch in Wyoming. Steve explains a 2-week job we've taken which will have us traveling and seeing a TON in Wyoming over the next 2 weeks. We hope you will enjoy the extra adventures as much as we will! We also go on an awesome trail ride to end the evening. Stay tuned for bison and more Wyoming adventures!
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Wild West Adventures in Lander Wyoming
We took a trip up to Lander Wyoming for the Raptor Offroad Communities 2018 Wyoming Trail Days. High Speed Offroading and mountain biking in the desert.
5-9-15 Sprin.....uh Winter trip to Pole Mountain Wyoming
May 9th 2015 took the Jeep to Pole Mountain area of Wyoming SE of Laramie and W of Cheyenne.
Left the house this morning with pouring rain, and it quickly changed to snow at the Wyoming border. Stayed that way the rest of the day.
nothing too crazy today but we did find some nice offroading with MUD west of I-80. just a fun day driving around.
Trip to Fort Casper.mov
A visit to Fort Casper, in Casper, Wyoming.
WAY OUT WEST IN WYOMING 1960s TRAVELOGUE DEVIL'S TOWER CASPER GRAND TETON JACKSON HOLE 68294
This late 1960s color travelogue film about Wyoming is narrated by Jack Douglas as part of the America! Television series. Buffalo and antelope roam on a plain. Deep Conestoga Wagon wheel ruts are shown along the Oregon Trail. Register Cliff has names and 1850s dates etched in (:15-1:31). A newspaper clipping from July 10, 1891 celebrates Wyoming’s statehood. A horseback rider walks next to 1960s vehicles at the 75th anniversary Wyoming State Fair Pioneer Days in Douglas. A “reserved parking for horses” sign is shown. The Rexall Drugstore has a teepee. A woman wears an 1850s feathered hat next to a mountain man (1:32-3:09). The parade has a dancing Sioux Indian, a high school marching band, Cancan girls, a boy’s drum corps in which a member falls down, a blue-tail fly float, Smokey the Bear, a bicycle-built-for-two, and a frozen mountain man float (3:10-4:03). Rodeo, activities include children riding calves, Brahma bull-riding steer wrestling, and barrel racing. Sioux Indians ride horses. A posse hangs a man. A beard shaving contest takes place (4:04-5:50). Natural landmarks include the Ayres Natural Bridge and Devils Tower National Monument. The Indian explanation is depicted in drawings (5:51-7:15). Prairie Dog Town occupants entertain picture-taking visitors. A prairie dog eats a carrot (7:16-7:53). Colorful cliffs line Alcova Lake. (7:54-8:38). Hell’s Half Acre post office overlooks rocky badlands (8:39-9:16). Downtown Casper full of 1960s cars is followed by Old Fort Caspar. 11th Ohio Calvary reenactors play the bugle and raise the flag. The Casper Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps perform (9:17-11:32). The Lander one-shot antelope hunt is explained. A Shoshone chief in full ceremonial clothing and headdress blesses the bullet for Wisconsin Governor Knowles. The Medicine Man uses a flint knife to make him a blood-brother, and a magic pouch is hung around his neck. The Shoshone perform a traditional hunting powwow dance around the nighttime campfire (11:33-13:18). The Cody Buffalo Bill Museum includes displays of William Cody’s belongings and advertising posters for his Wild West show. The Whitney Gallery of Western Art has a Buffalo Bill sculpture by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and paintings by Remington, Schreyvogel, Russell, and Paxson’s “Custer’s Last Stand.” (13:19-16:00). Jackson Lake is overshadowed by the Teton Mountains. Clouds cover the Grand Teton (16:01-17:05). Black bears sit at the side of the road or stand on hind legs to look into a 1964 Rambler Classic 770 car window at Yellowstone National Park. Elk, moose, and pronghorn antelope graze in the grassy meadows (17:06-18:14). Shown is a geyser at Yellowstone Lake, Morning Glory Pool Hot Springs, Dragon’s Mouth Spring, Black Dragon Cauldron, Clepsydra Geyser, Mammoth Hot Springs, the Minerva Terrace, and Old Faithful Geyser (18:15-20:00). Waterfalls shown are Gibbon Falls, Yellowstone Upper Falls, and Lower Yellowstone Falls (20:01-20:38). An arch of elk antlers is shown at Jackson Hole. Along Main Street are wooden boardwalks as sidewalks. The magician act at the Pink Garter Theatre is shown (20:39-23:08). Jack Douglas gives the America! sign-off (23:09-23:24).
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Welcome to Cody Wyoming! Home of the Buffalo Bill Museum and East Entrance to Yellowstone!
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Cody is a town in northwest Wyoming. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West has 5 museums. These include the Buffalo Bill Museum, tracing William F. Cody’s life with multimedia displays, and the Draper Natural History Museum, with wildlife exhibits. Nearby, Old Trail Town is a re-created frontier town with 1800s log cabins and a saloon. Buffalo Bill Scenic Byway winds past craggy cliffs to Yellowstone National Park East Entrance.
4K City Walks: Billings Montana Downtown Tour - Virtual Walk Walking Treadmill Video
In 4K City Walks: Billings Montana Downtown Tour - Virtual Walk Walking Treadmill Video we take you around Downtown Billings, past hotels and restaurants. We go by several breweries and restaurants as well, including Last Chance Pub and Uberbrew, and The Sassy Biscuit and the Burger Dive. It was a cold blustery day and I was using a new z-axis stabilizer for the DJI Osmo Pocket camera and an external mic adapter.
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Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population estimated at 109,550 as of 2018. Located in the south-central portion of the state, it is the seat of Yellowstone County and the principal city of the Billings Metropolitan Area, which has a population of 171,677. It has a trade area of over 500,000
Billings was nicknamed the Magic City because of its rapid growth from its founding as a railroad town in March 1882. The city is named for Frederick H. Billings, a former president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. With one of the largest trade areas in the United States, Billings is the trade and distribution center for much of Montana east of the Continental Divide, Northern Wyoming, and western portions of North Dakota and South Dakota. Billings is also the largest retail destination for much of the same area.
The city is experiencing rapid growth and a strong economy; it has had and is continuing to have the largest growth of any city in Montana. Parts of the metro area are seeing hyper growth. From 2000 to 2010 Lockwood, an eastern suburb, saw growth of 57.8%, the largest growth rate of any community in Montana Billings has avoided the economic downturn that affected most of the nation from 2008 to 2012 as well as the housing bust. With more hotel accommodations than any area within a five-state region, the city hosts a variety of conventions, concerts, sporting events, and other rallies. With the Bakken oil development in eastern Montana and western North Dakota, the largest oil discovery in U.S. history, as well as the Heath shale oil discovery just north of Billings, the city's growth rate stayed high during the shale oil boom. Although the city is growing, its growth rate has diminished markedly with oil price declines in recent years.
Area attractions include Pompey's Pillar, Pictograph Cave, Chief Plenty Coups State Park, Zoo Montana, and Yellowstone Art Museum. Within 100 miles are Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Red Lodge Mountain Resort, and the Beartooth Highway, which links Red Lodge to Yellowstone National Park.
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Finding the Call of the WY - That's WY
Three weeks, a tiny house, and Wyoming: Adventure photographers Quin Schrock and Andy Austin share their experiences.
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Devils Kitchen Greybull WY
Drone Footage of Devil's Kitchen just outside of Greybull, WY. The Video isn't the best, i will post a better one at a later date. Music by bensound.com
Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Wyoming (4K/UHD)
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Fort Laramie ist ein ehemaliger Handelsposten und späteres Armeefort am Zusammenfluss des Laramie River und des North Platte River im Südosten des US-Bundesstaates Wyoming nahe der Stadt Fort Laramie. Am 26. Juni 1849 wurde das Fort von der amerikanischen Regierung für 4000 US-Dollar erworben und als Posten der United States Army umgewandelt. Hauptaufgabe des Armeeposten war es nun, Immigranten und Siedler, die hier auf dem Oregon Trail oder California Trail unterwegs waren, vor Übergriffen der Indianer zu schützen. Fort Laramie wurde erheblich erweitert, es entstanden mehrere große Gebäude, die rund um einen großen Appellplatz angeordnet wurden. Heute gehört Fort Laramie zum 1916 gegründeten National Park Service der Vereinigten Staaten. Viele Gebäude wurden wieder hergestellt, aufwendig rekonstruiert und bis ins Detail mit Gegenständen aus der damaligen Zeit ausgestattet.
Fort Laramie is a former trading post and later army fort at the confluence of the Laramie River and the North Platte River in southeastern Wyoming near the town of Fort Laramie. On June 26, 1849, the fort was purchased by the US government for $ 4,000 and converted into a United States Army post. Main task of the army post was to protect immigrants and settlers, who were traveling here on the Oregon Trail or California Trail, from encroachments of the Indians. Fort Laramie was significantly expanded, it created several large buildings, which were arranged around a large mustering area. Today, Fort Laramie belongs to the 1916 founded National Park Service of the United States. Many buildings were restored, elaborately reconstructed and furnished in detail with objects from the time.
BATTLE OF RED BUTTES HISTORY
THIS VIDEO DESCRIBES THE ACTUAL EVENT OF THE BATTLE AT FORT CASPAR WYOMING.... IT IS THE BEST DESCRIPTION KNOWN ABOUT WHAT REALLY HAPPEN AND WHO DID WHAT...IT DECLARES THE TRUE STORY OF WESTERN HISTORY FOR CASPER WYOMING INDIAN WAR AT NORTH PLATE RIVER DURING THE 1800's.....
Thermopolis, Wyoming - Drive
Driving US Hwy 20 through Thermopolis, Wyoming.
Thermopolis is the largest town in Hot Springs County, Wyoming.
Thermopolis is from the Greek for Hot City. It is home to numerous natural hot springs, in which mineral-laden waters are heated by geothermal processes. The town is named for the hot springs located there.
The town claims the world's largest mineral hot spring, appropriately named The Big Spring, as part of Wyoming's Hot Springs State Park. The springs are open to the public for free as part of an 1896 treaty signed with the Shoshone and Arapaho Indian tribes.
City of Gold, South Pass City - Main Street, Wyoming
From the initial discovery of gold in the mid 1800's to the creation of a state historic site, South Pass City has witnessed much of Wyoming's history. In addition to being the site of Wyoming's first big gold strike, South Pass City was instrumental in Wyoming becoming a territory and ultimately a state. It was the birthplace of women's suffrage, the first territory to grant women the right to vote and hold public office. But South Pass City is perhaps best known as Wyoming's first boom and bust town, with hard working and hard drinking miners, loose women, gambling and the entrepreneurial businesses who profited from their dreams of instant wealth.