tv Cities Tour- Sheridan WY PAAHTV CSPAN September 27, 2019 7:36pm-8:34pm EDT
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sheridan, wyoming. for eight years, we have traveled to bring historic sites to our viewers. you can watch more at s --an.org/cittie /citiestour.rg next hour, wehe will hear from local historians and experts about this city situated along the big horn mountain range. known for its cowboy culture. in about 15 minutes, we will hear about the conflict between the u.s. army am american indian tribes and a little later, we will hear about the impact paul mining had on the area. ofbegin with the history
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[indiscernible] >> all right. one, two, three. the nationals final rodeo. >> there's no place better to be the second week in july than sheridan, wyoming. we put on a world class event and we just love to invite you all to come to sheridan. >> o say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hail by the twilight's last gleaming
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>> i tell you what, this week is the biggest week in sheridan. economically and entertainment-wise. it's good because 89 years ago, sheridan was dead as a door nail. there was nothing going on. so some citizens decided, we need to have a rodeo to provide some economic opportunity and entertainment and that was their charter and it still is. so here we are 89 years later. we're still doing the same thing and we hope the founding fathers will be proud of that. in 1928 and 1929, a financier family named j.p. morgan, they bought the historic p.k. ranch outside of town. for years they had a big rodeo out in the fields. it was such a big deal. i think there were cars in 23 states. this is in 128. came to. the people of sheridan said, if they can do it, why can't we do
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it here? so a group of concerned citizens got together and formed a committee and they decided, we're going to have a rodeo. they didn't just start out on a small scale. they wanted to have a big professional rodeo from the get-go. and they put it all together and in 1931 they had their first professional rodeo in sheridan, wyoming. and here we are today. a rodeo is eight events, different stock events, from bucking horses, livestock roping, steer wrestling. kind of the old cowboy skills brought to the modern day era. it all started out, obviously some ranch somewhere, they had a contest of some bucking horses. >> we're one of the top 30 rodeos in america and that's determined by the amount of prize money that you add to your event. our rodeo competitors come from all over the united states. it was interesting. we had people from louisiana, michigan, wisconsin, entered
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today. obviously a lot of the rodeo contestants are from texas, oklahoma, wyoming certainly has a lot of rodeo contestants. last year in terms of our rodeo, we had people registered for our rodeo to watch our rodeo from 49 of the 50 states in america and we're going to get delaware this year. i'm just pretty sure. but we had people from all over the united states here, 49 of 50. our rodeo stock, the rough stock that we have come from sankey pro rodeo, which is in montana, and they subcontract some of the other stock out too. but they've been a long-time -- i think they've been with our rodeo for about 23 years, some of the very best in the business. >> our job, from sankey rodeo, is we provide all the livestock for rodeos across the country. that includes everything from the cattle to the bucking horses to the bulls. we have 64 horses of ours that we brought, we leased 15 horses from a company out of canada. for the tie-down roping, we 100
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head of animals. for the steer wrestling and team roping, we have 100 head of each of those animals as well. >> the animals that are involved in the rodeo, particularly the animals in the rough stock events, that's what they're born to do. and they're born to -- these aren't animals that are trained to do that. it's what they're born to do. and if you think about it, they spend most of their life in a pasteur, eating hay and they actually work eight seconds a day, 20 times a year. and that's their job. very truthfully, the prca and us particularly, we put animal welfare first and foremost. and we really believe in the welfare of the animals and we take the very best care of them that we can. >> these guys are bred to be animal athletes. it's not like a dairy cow, it's not like a beef animal. they're bred totally different. they're bred to be an athlete. no different than the horses. they're bred to be athletes. it's a totally different deal. so their nutrition is totally different. their care is totally different. i always tell people, if you're on a good bucking bull, it's like winning the bow vine lottery, because you're cared
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for the best, from acupuncture to whatever it is that they need, we'll give them, and their nutrition-wise is specifically for what they're bred to do. they're going to do their career and not want for anything. at the end of it, they retire, they get turned out to maybe breed some cows and then they're going to die of old age underneath a tree out in pasture. >> one thing different about the sheridan, wyoming, rodeo is we like to keep a small-time feel to it. we don't want it to it to become some big economic thing. we want it to be a community event. we want it to be -- we don't want to get too big for our britches, if you know what i mean. >> making their way out here is the blue moon -- they represent the lakota. >> another thing that makes us unique is our indian relay races which we started here in 1997. it's become a premier event of the rodeo. it's not a prca event. it's purely a sheridan, wyoming,
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rodeo event. to start off the rodeo, you'll be able to see how exciting it is. and it brings a lot of people here that might not be that interested in the rest of the rodeo events. they come to see the indian relay race. we have a great partnership with the indian relay team and indians in general. we have had a great relationship since the rodeo. >> they decided in 19 1 that they wanted to have the indians. they just did. and in those days, the indians would walk down from the reservation to be part of this show and in those days, there
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was no television before anything else. they had huge night shows and things called like cowboy days and indian nights and stage these big shows. so they have always been an integral part of it. and it has ebbed and flowed over the years. it's become a thing of beauty. >> first event and people want to find a debate spot to watch. if you never seen indian relay racing, it is spectacular. that is the event that most of the people talk about at our rodeo. >> there have been many challenges. shortly after the first rodeo in 19 1 and it became financially challenged, make it a go and make a profit to carry on the next year. that has been a continuous problem. they didn't have the rodeo in 1942 and 1943. in 1944, they started up again in a modest manner. so the 1950's was the doldrums
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and got to the point in 1950 when the rodeo said to the community, do you want to have the rodeo or not. they took a poll and said, we want to have the rodeo. so we were alive again and got more community support. over the decades, community support from sponsors and businessmen and it ebbed and flowed and since the 1990's, this flowed. >> typically, we end up around 22,000 around our four-day event. our facility seats 6,000. we will be sold out on friday and saturday. we are hoping to hoping to have 20,000 to 22,000. and not to mention all the other events that go on in town and how many events people will attend those. >> it brings $5 million into the community, motels, hotels, restaurants, bars, businesses. economic impact is pretty good. and the dollars get turned over several times. it's the biggest economic event in sheridan, wyoming, that's for sure. >> it has been carried on by citizens and a lot of trials and tribulations and held true to the western culture and it has become an integral part of the community and nobody can imagine sheridan, wyoming without the rodeo.
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and 50 years -- [indiscernible] >> right now we are at the himic sheridan inn. it opened in 1893. it is connected to buffalo bill coty. he had his show right here on the porch and it is connected to the history and culture to wyoming as a whole. buffalo bill is connected to wyoming. he spent a lot of time of different sections auditiononning could yougirls and cowboys. so he would come to sheridan, set up shop and look for authentic performer. the folks that would come were doing from shooting guns on the lawn to using ropes to any of the other crazy stuff that would happen. horses on the lawn, cowboys and could yougirls and the tribe and the northern cheyenne so you have a group of characters. it looks much today like it did back when it was first constructed in 1892, the exterior. the white clap board building and inside it has been renovated over the several ownership groups. and completely renovated the rooms. each one named for a character. the original 1893 i buffalo bill bar which is the most historic bars. weather is pretty tough and wreaks havoc on places like this so to have a piece like this in the heart of our downtown. we get calls at the visitor center who want to come and
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>> here, the landscape is an artifact, so when people come in, it is our job to help them understand how this line shapes the narrative. we had a lot of people that come , but when theyng come in and we start to talk about the main landmarks, ec crucialrt to absorb how the artifact that we preserve in wyoming, how that has shaped westward expansion. that we haveves kind of grown up with, but maybe untilt truly understood theget out here and realize
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conflict. >> located in traditional native american lands, before played a central role in an armed conflict between native americans and the u.s. from 1866 three u.s. army installations situated along the byil, the fort was commanded henry carrington. >> carrington was hired to build the fort and he decided to put the fort in a location where we are today and set of moving it up north sheridan of the river. we've had strategists come through that have said this is strategically smart location to place the fort, it has natural benches and carrington had drawn
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out the plan before he came west and he decided this was going to be the best place for it. july and on his way, read cut delivered the message that he will have the fight every day that the military is here and it is at that point that keratin really realizes how in over his head he is. they think they are at peace. ofy understand the history nominated expansion in the west. by 1866, he had heard the story of how all the tribes have been dispersed throughout north -- when randindy
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allying, hes in asked them together and make a very strong showing against the fort. we think there was an attempt on december 19 where there were probably 1500 disappointed warriors, but on that day, for carringtonason -- said he told everyone not to cross because he cannot send any d any battles. they would train is attacked as -- the woulds wood train was attacked as it usually was.
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one of those men is definitely crazy horse, a very young warrior and a man with [inaudible]trong as a warrior. they are largely marching they are going and completely worn out and now they are trying to walk to these engagements, so the train is attacked and they head up just north of here about four miles and we don't know the conversation that happened. is the core of a lot of speculation about what happens, but for whatever reason, they decided to go over.
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who knows if they thought a small band of warriors were there, i can take them. at that point, carrington realizes that read cut has been incredibly successful and can totally overwhelm them if they wanted to. they were ready to take their life into their own hands if they wanted. men gathered all the other one guy thed gays said if theyse and come down, lighted. of incredible
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despair from that perspective. for red cloud and his army, an incredible victory. they have successfully gathered in a time they would not completelyght and wiped out a huge part of the able body section of the fort. for whatever, they are able to survive the winter and by the time you get through, you have and thated weaponry gets us to august 2 and they are a little bit more prepared for red cloud's strategy. morning, they hear a shot is aealize maybe there force near them about four miles
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west of where we are today. together a small wagon box and taken a bunch, laid them on the ground and absolutely jammed it full. now, they don't have to stand up to load them. they have the updated weaponry and it looks like the same gun. day atey gathered that the second box, they started to attack the woodcutting cap and can't --ood cutters -- cutters.all the wood
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26 civilians and soldiers lived through that out of 34 and we don't know how many of red -- forcesurces survived. what a shoot out for four hours. largely uneventful except for the smaller engagements through 1868,nter and by april the signing of the treaty and that is basically the concession that red cloud has won the war and the forts are abandoned. they were very glad to see them go we imagine.
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when people walk away, i hope they have learned how to absorb expansive,d just the wide-open landscape that they have gone to travel to and how valuable it is to our quality of shapesto learning what >> next on our visit to sheridan, wyoming, we take you to the brinton museum to see some of the western and native american art that makes up the collection. >> the brinton museum is a very complex institution. only are we an art museum, but andre also a history
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national has -- natural history museum as well. we lie on 600 acres of beautiful ranchland. we interpret the ranchland and history and dative -- native american history. our hope is to give people of you of why this area is important and why it deserves to be preserved and seen by people from all over the world. comes to the big horn mountains in 1910. i will legends say that is when he decided to own a minute -- own a ranch, which he does in 1923. the purchase of the ranch in 1923 served as the impetus for his collection. it becomes his repository for collecting. he buys over 200 works by edward bahrain.
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lots of hans kleibers. in 1936.rematurely he has his -- he has 650 works of art. museum owns an important piece of western art, the painting of the fight on the little bighorn by frederic remington. it is one of two versions of the fight that he did. it is in black-and-white. brinton was a wise collector. he could collect great keep -- great paintings in the black and white realm because they were illustrations. they had less value than the color work at that time. bradford is well educated.
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he is a young graduate at the sheffield school of engineering in 1904. helen is six years is elder. she never married. upon his death, he leaves the ranch to helen, that upon her death, she is supposed to open into the public so they can see how they lived. even in the 30's, he understood most americans were living the way he was laying -- living. we are the front of the honor of the planes nations, brinton's exhibition of planes native american material. it is a testament to the importance of the gallatin family. iny are magnificent patrons this gallery in particular is very treasured by the crow. years iscourse of 40 adopted into the tribe, is made
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an honorary crow medicine woman. the family benefits by receiving importantpieces of crow art. us andl see that behind that formed the nucleus of this exhibition. headdresses,te which are very important and very spiritual within the crow tribe, those are not things that would be given to anybody. it shows the reference that the tribe holds for edith gallatin. is a washer from the 1830's. it represents the height of that. -- that period of art. you can see the owner has decorated it with some of his war deeds. on atdeeds are carried the back.
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the shirt was probably made in the early 1830's. by britishn 1865 army officer and eventually finds its way to america. we were fortunate to acquire it. my hope is people will be able to come here and see different aspects of various plains tribes , the blackfeet, the crow, the lakota, the northern cheyenne, the apache in this museum, all being very important to that cultural part of the history of the 1860's back to the 1760's, the bison culture. a story -- that is the story we are telling. are important not only because of that marvelous plains indian collection that we have acquired, but also, they are integral in introducing bradford brinton to add noreen.
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boreen. born a california artist in san leandro california. importantbly the most cowboy artist in that area. he actually was a cowboy. remington and charlie russell were not. borein really was. he worked on ranches throughout california and mexico. he was a marvelous draftsman. you can see that illustrated in this drawing. just a beautiful piece. of ink. master he becomes good friends with frederick britton. -- bradford brinton. he collects 200 pieces of his work. we are in the brinton house. this is the original part of the institution.
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for the first 50 years of this history, it was the main thing to see here. to these takes back 1800s. william lives here with his wife in 1910 when he sold the biggest part of the ranch to the gallatin family. brinton buysford the house. he puts it into this shape in 1928 after a remodel. it,as five bedrooms in including bradford's big bedroom. when brinton remodeled it, he made sure every bedroom had its own bath. it was a good home for a country gentleman. this was the repository for his art. this was to relax and have a good time. sheridan was the heartbeat of the dude ranch industry.
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there were lots of dude ranches and bradford had good relations is -- relations with those people. is whatory of this area gives rise to that marvelous museum building. what we would like visitors to walk away with is a better picture of what the west was. andasn't all indian fights cowboys herding cattle. it was more refined than anybody ever thought it was in this area. thats a part of history most people thought had ever existed out here. >> the c-span cities tour is exploring the american story. john is the first and third weekends of each month as we take both in american history tv on the road. to watch videos from any of the places we have been, go to c-span.org/cities tour.
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follow us on twitter at c-span cities tour get up next, we continue our look at sheridan, wyoming, as we visit a horseshoe maker. romagne -- >> as you drive around, you can see the cultures western based. we don't have a lot of people. we have more horses than people in wyoming. western lifestyle and riding horses comes of fairy or. -- a ferrier. a ferrier is a big piece in a large puzzle.
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without a qualified ferrier to keep your horses feet in mind, you won't be able to compete. your horse won't be able to move. it's a blacksmith, but a concentrated blacksmith. head of horses we were training here. we spent a lot of money with the local ferriers i have my girlfriend come up and tell me about this college program they had at sheridan college. some courses take 15 weeks and some take a year and a half. mine was 15 weeks out of sheridan. the next year, i rode heavy with the guys that were here. i started getting my own clients' horses, and over the years, i've created a clientele where i am full-time supporting my place here in my lifestyle is shoeing horses.
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>> i think a lot of people are trying to reinvent the wheel. you can read books and i have them in those cabinets that show you from the 18th -- the 1800s to the early 1900s, the thing we have changed in shoeing as we have a process to make nicer tools, which makes crisper lines. that annville is 200 years old. nothing has changed. you can reinvent the wheel, but you will always go back to the basics. basics is what horseshoe ring was founded on. hand making a shoes, you shoe for two hours. 5-6 pieces in the foot -- and the fire. foot, the second time to burn the clip and and a third time for a final burn the
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new nail up and finish. dealing with the horse, you have to do it every day. a lot of "testimony of truths -- a lot of ferriers are losing horsemanship. it's getting along with them. that's 90% of our time, learning to be around the horses and not get in a fight with them. with aget in fight horse, it will probably be a long day. with horses comes "testimony of truths -- with horses comes ferriers. you can't have one without -- a horse without one. it's a huge part of the culture. there are 6, 7, 8 of us, that just serve sheridan, and we can't cover all of the horses. with everything comes a ferrier. skills, nobody
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could do anything. you'd be stuck with horses with sore feet and broken out and can't travel ride and don't hold up over time. coming up, i would look at sheridan continues as we visit ,he trail and historic site home of former u.s. senator john fromdrick who served 1917-1933. >> a lot of times you hear the american rags to riches story. john kendrick embodies that. he started out with nothing. and a lot ofwork intelligence, he worked his way up. -- end was his home and it was very modern when it was built. it is 14,000 square feet with 10 electricity, five
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intercom stations and essential vacuuming system. it was a very modern home in sheridan. the price to build it was $164,000. you could buy a three bedroom house with running water for $3000 at the time. came to wyoming as a penniless orphan cowboy on a cattle drive. in true american rags to riches stories, he became a cattle baron and a three term senator. 1857 andrn in texas in was orphaned at an early age. he didn't go to school formally passed the fifth grade. his first real job was when he was 15. he was breaking horses for room and board. by the time he was 22, he had signed on for a cattle drive. it was supposed to bring 3000 head of cattle from the gulf of mexico at the texas trail to wyoming. he made the cattle drive.
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the second time, he was a foreman. he stayed in wyoming. he was foreman for several ranching outfits. at this time, he started purchasing his own head of cattle for himself and had permission from his employers to run them with the main herd. be successfulto at managing his herd and his finances. signed on as the superintendent of the converse cattle company. up becominggs ended the basis for his own cattle company and he went on to own 10 ranches. the owi,ranch, called was located in montana. sheridan was the closest town. he built his dream home in sheridan. we are in the library, which he used as his home office. the walls have golden oak. are enclosed with
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glass doors. he was offered a position in the territorial legislature. he declined it that time. he decided to focus on his ranching. was elected from sheridan county to be a state senator in cheyenne for a two-year term. he ran for governor and was elected. he became the second democrat to be governor in wyoming. he was known for working with the republican legislature. he was known for getting along with his opponents. he was a popular governor. sign worker's compensation, a mother's pension act, the public utilities commission, he was well-liked. he was elected as the u.s. senator, even though he did not run. allowed toates were
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elect their senators by popular vote. it wasn't up to the state senate anymore. mr. kendrick and his opponent were both asked to run for u.s. senator and they both declined. people didn't care because they nominated both of them in a write-in campaign. he won the election by 3000 votes. his very first duty as a set -- a senator was to sign or decide to sign the declaration of war against germany in 1917. this was a heavy personal decision for him. if the war continued long enough, he had a teenage son who would be old enough to register for the draft. he did sign the declaration. he went on a fact-finding mission with other politicians to the front lines with europe. the reports they sent back helped congress decide on
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staffing needs. he was known as a reformer intent on rooting out corruption. this was evident in his teapot dome scandal. transferredding supervision of the u.s. naval oil reserves from the navy under the supervision of the dependent of the interior. or of interior -- the secretary of interior gave excessive oil rights to oil companies. oily sinclair with sinclair was granted those rights. ann leslie miller, independent oil man who became governor of wyoming, saw trucks with the sinclair oil logo holding julie newcomen into the teapot dome area, he became suspicious. senator kendrick who introduced a resolution to open an investigation into it.
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this became the biggest political scandal until watergate in the 1970's. his primary areas of interest as a senator or land-use, irrigation and conservation. the mountains like of jackson wyoming would be threatened by commercial development and overuse. he was the senator who proposed the bill to create teton national park. calvin coolidge signed an executive order creating teton national park. theas instrumental in creation of several dams. one of them is the dam outside of casper, wyoming. that's a big project. when you live in an in -- a windy, arid area, like central wyoming, having access to stored water instead of depending on rainfall is a big deal. brought toion farmers and ranchers allow them
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to produce crops and raise feed for the livestock. it would be called the kendrick project. they still refer to it as the kendrick project. backed legislation for arizona's boulder dam, now known as the hoover dam. he was elected to the senate in 1916 and served until 1933. he served for three full terms. helping getting teton national park and helping with these things that benefit ranchers even today, it leaves a lasting legacy. >> the c-span cities tour of sheridan, wyoming continues. the sheridan county museum to hear about the impacts call mining has had on the area. -- coal mining. -- coal mining has had on the area. >> it has its start in the past
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in sheridan and wyoming as a this area's history before it became a state. most people might not realize it, but wyoming used to be ather -- used to be subtropical reason and at one point we were in ocean. -- an ocean. that has all factored into the deposits of fossil fuels within the state, whether the national gas -- natural gas, oil, coal, and so that prehistory set the stage for modern day sheridan. 1880, the first outcroppings of coal or discovered in sheridan on private lane. the landowners at that time have that they could not only mine coal for their personal use, whether it is with
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their outbuildings and their homes, and they also begin the business of the taking of that coal. they would offer it for delivery to residents of sheridan or they offered it to a fee so residents could come out and mine as much coal as they could carry to town. that went on for a while until the burlington northern arrived in 1892. it was at that point that sheridan experienced an economic boom, and not just with coal. coal was one of the dominating factors of the boom, because they not only wanted coal for their trains, they wanted to be able to ship it to their eastern markets. the next year in 1893 is when we really see the first coal camp, which would transition into a and that was the dietz
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community, founded by several businessmen of the sheridan community. tothis time, it is important realize that mining was one of the most dangerous jobs in the american west. especially -- mining would especially see catastrophes that would lead to a larger movement of the minor community on a national scale. even with the dangers of the minds, we still had immigrants from across europe and even japan moving to sheridan county to participate in the mines. this immigration flux we see the formation of monarch in have another, we coming about, which would be renamed kearney veil. 1911, another is brought into
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existence as well. the story of mining is very important to the history of sheridan county. to of the ways that we aim tell it within the museum setting is through the two dioramas that are within the exhibit. monarch during a time during which monarch was experiencing great growth. of theer is a view mountain and shows the various rooms and operations that went into the mining process. before things transitioned into stripmining, that many people know and recognize today. of all the mining communities wyoming,heridan, acme, and monarch are the two that have some remains of what was once there.
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acme's powerplant still stands. other structures with the water tower and the st. thomas church. with the dioramas, they provide an opportunity for visitors to see that at one point in time it was a thriving community. and others that we identify as being a necessity for community survival. and yet, because of these communities, we are at the mercy of the company's finances. they provide the opportunity not only to see monarch striving, -- we see the book people coming into monarch. several factors went into the decline of coal within sheridan county. one is that stripmining became more popular required -- he came more popular.
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mine started losing financial resources due to a number of factors. in 1910, the monarch mine suffered a catastrophic fire. production for significant amount of time. in 1911, there was a financial crisis not only on a state level, but a national level. coal was needed for the world f -- war effort during world war i. until september 1 of 1953 that monarch is a community ceased to exist. sheridan coal company notified residents in may that they had until that september to essentially get out. tried tohe museum, we
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show the cultural aspects of these communities. they were not made to be temporary institutions. they were supposed to last. theocus, for example, on fact that each community had a band. everyone played the instrument they were comfortable with. they were able to put together a band. we really do try to provide visitors with an opportunity to understand the legacy and the time of coal on a larger scale than what they are used to. and to have a greater understanding of the impact and story that is coal, not only from the immigration standpoint, economic might andas provided the county
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its period of time. >> the c-span cities tour concludes its lookup of sheridan, wyoming as cyrus western, a representative in the wyoming state legislature talks about the economy and infrastructure of the area. the 51st district encompasses the western half of sheridan county, all the way to the montana border. we have a little bit of everything. there were blue-collar neighborhoods in my district. there are a lot of ranchers as well. >> how would you describe to someone living in a different things you arehe concerned about regarding this district? >> the concerns i share are similar to those throughout the county and state. haveo we ensure we quality, high paying for the next generation?
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one of the things we are reading about is people concerned in the state is the economy. can you describe for us what they are concerned about and what is going away that they need to be replaced? we are >> >> an extractive industry state. they have been good to us for many years. coal, oil and natural gas and other ones. those are the ones that have paid the bills for the last 50 years. right now, cole's best days are behind us. coal's best days are behind us. how do we adapt for the economic future we want. -- want? as a community in the state, we are going through this. week, 700 miners were
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laid off. this is serious anxiety about what the future will look like. there is heavy-handed regulation from the previous administration. for theest driver reason why coal is the way it is is because of natural gas. it's plentiful and cheap. and is companies generation facilities are using it as a cheap and viable .lternative that is reliable that's when the biggest dryers. -- drivers. how do we adapt is the thing we are wondering. and brightestung go to where the jobs are. californiaouston or or new york city. i don't blame them, one of the things the sheridan -- that
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sheridan has going on for, as we are diverse compared to the rest of the state. we have these manufacturing companies that are pretreating in a big way -- contributing in a big way. >> what i was learning about was the big game corridor. describe to us why migration is an issue, the conservation, and how does it affect infrastructure? >> making sure we have this beautiful place for generations to come. aboutof folks really care having a healthy environment that they can hunt and fish and recreate in. we are proud of our big game. we've all sorts of different species. vehicle collisions are a big problem.
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dearoming, it is 4500 mail diane year from vehicle collisions. the bigger game species are a big concern for humans. two or three people died a year. one of the things that is affected to that is building these mitigation sites. an underpass or an overpass where these migrating herds, when they migrate into the mountains in the summertime and then down to the feeding grounds during the winter, building a structure is a huge impact for these herds and helping them maintain healthy population levels. they are very expensive. the reduced mortality by about 90%. they are very expensive to build. we are trying to figure out creative ways to come up with the ways to build them. want to have large swaths of high-quality habitat for everything.
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we need to have communities where we can build homes, but i know a lot of people are paying attention to this and they want to see a great outcome. they care about the species, whether it is helping them or wildlife enthusiasts just like seen them doing well and being healthy. >> our visit to sheridan, wyoming, is in american history tv explosive. we should it to you today to seduce you to c-span cities tour's. we have traveled for eight years bringing historic sites to our viewers. you can listen more at c-span.org/cities tour. >> next, president trump speaks at a reception to honor hispanic -- hispanic heritage month. after that, the president of columbia talks about the future of his country. wisconsinmakers with congressman
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