The Johnson County War,also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War,was a range conflict that took place in Johnson County,Wyoming from 1889 to 1893. The conflict began when cattle companies started ruthlessly persecuting alleged rustlers in the area,many of whom were settlers who competed with them for livestock,land and water rights. As violence swelled between the large established ranchers and the smaller settlers in the state,it culminated in the Powder River Country when the former hired gunmen to invade the county. The gunmen's initial incursion in the territory alerted the small farmers and ranchers,as well as the state lawmen,and they formed a posse of 200 men that led to a grueling stand-off. The siege ended when the United States Cavalry on the orders of President Benjamin Harrison relieved the two forces,although further fighting persisted in the following months.
Thomas Horn Jr.,was an American scout,cowboy,soldier,range detective,and Pinkerton agent in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West. Believed to have committed 17 killings as a hired gunman throughout the West,Horn was convicted in 1902 of the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell near Iron Mountain,Wyoming. Willie was the son of sheep rancher Kels Nickell,who had been involved in a range feud with neighbor and cattle rancher Jim Miller. On the day before his 43rd birthday,Horn was executed by hanging in Cheyenne,Wyoming.
Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney was an American journalist,lawyer,and politician. A Democrat,he served four complete terms as a U.S. Senator from Wyoming on two occasions,first from 1934-1953 and then again from 1954-1961.
Robert Walter Weir was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School. Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the United States Military Academy. His best-known work is Embarkation of the Pilgrims in the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington,D.C. More than 450 of his works are known,and he created many unsigned paintings that may never be attributed to him.
The Wyoming Military Department is part of the Government of Wyoming. Its primary components are the Wyoming Army National Guard,and the Wyoming Air National Guard.
The New York City Fire Commissioner is the civilian administrator of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY),appointed by the Mayor of the City of New York. There have been 34 commissioners excluding Acting Fire Commissioners,and 38 commissioners including Acting Fire Commissioners. This is since Manhattan and the Bronx consolidated with Brooklyn,Queens,and Staten Island to form The City of New York in 1898. The current Fire Commissioner is Laura Kavanagh,who had held the office since February 16,2022 as interim Fire Commissioner,but on October 27,2022,she was appointed as Fire Commissioner.
The Wyoming Stock Growers Association (WSGA) is an American cattle organization that started in 1872 among Wyoming cattle ranchers to standardize and organize the cattle industry but quickly grew into a political force that has been called "the de facto territorial government" of Wyoming's organization into early statehood,and wielded great influence throughout the Western United States.
Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming,as well as the county seat of Laramie County,with 65,132 residents,per the 2020 US Census. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne metropolitan statistical area which encompasses all of Laramie County and had 100,512 residents as of the 2020 census. Local residents named the town for the Cheyenne Native American people in 1867 when it was founded in the Dakota Territory.
There is evidence of prehistoric human habitation in the region known today as the U.S. state of Wyoming stretching back roughly 13,000 years. Stone projectile points associated with the Clovis,Folsom and Plano cultures have been discovered throughout Wyoming. Evidence from what is now Yellowstone National Park indicates the presence of vast continental trading networks since around 1,000 years ago.
Austin Edward Ford was an American publisher and Fire Commissioner of New York.
William Thomas Campbell Grower was a United States Army Officer in the American Civil War,1861 to 1865,and serving as the Major of the 17th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment (1861–1863) and Colonel of the 17th New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment (1863–1865).
The Cheyenne and Northern Railway was a railroad in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The railroad was incorporated in 1886 to build a line from Cheyenne,Wyoming into northern Wyoming and Montana. The line extended 125 miles (201 km) to Wendover on the North Platte River. It was absorbed by Union Pacific Railroad subsidiary Union Pacific,Denver and Gulf Railway and later became part of the Colorado and Southern Railway when the Union Pacific went into receivership.
The Goodnight–Loving Trail was a trail used in the cattle drives of the late 1860s for the large-scale movement of Texas Longhorns. It is named after cattlemen Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving.
Brevet Brigadier General Lester Sebastion Willson,,was a U.S. Civil War officer in the Union Army,Assistant Quartermaster General of New York,and a Montana merchant and politician in Bozeman,Montana. He was married at Albany,New York,on March 2,1869,to Miss Emma D. Weeks,a native of Vermont. He died in Bozeman,Montana,on January 26,1919.
The William Sturgis House was built by cattle baron William Sturgis in Cheyenne,Wyoming in 1884. The Shingle Style house was designed by architect George D. Rainsford,a New York architect who moved to Wyoming to raise Morgan horses and Clydesdales. While horse breeding was his principal occupation,Rainsford continued to practice architecture,designing many of the houses in the neighborhood surrounding the Sturgis residence.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cheyenne,Wyoming,USA.
The Big Horn Expedition,or Bighorn Expedition,was a military operation of the United States Army against the Sioux,and Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming Territory and Montana Territory. Although soldiers destroyed one Cheyenne and Oglala Sioux village,the expedition solidified Lakota Sioux and northern Cheyenne resistance against the United States attempt to force them to sell the Black Hills and live on a reservation,beginning the Great Sioux War of 1876.
Cattle towns were midwestern frontier settlements that catered to the cattle industry. The economies of these communities were heavily dependent on the seasonal cattle drives from Texas,which brought the cowboys and the cattle that these towns relied upon. Cattle towns were found at the junctions of railroads and livestock trails. These towns were the destination of the cattle drives,the place where the cattle would be bought and shipped off to urban meatpackers,midwestern cattle feeders,or to ranchers on the central or northern plains. Cattle towns were made famous by popular accounts of rowdy cowboys and outlaws who were kept under control by local lawmen,but those depictions were mostly exaggeration and myth.
Henry Sturgis Russell was an American military and government official who served as commander of the 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry and as the first commissioner of the Boston Fire Department.
Thomas Robert Reid was an American politician who served in Wyoming House of Representatives as a Democrat.
