The Anasazi The Anasazi lived in Mesa Verde in Southern Colorado. They built homes underneath overhanging cliffs which gave them there nickname Cliff Dwellers. They grew corn, beans, and squash. They were very skilled at pottery. Bingham Canyon Mine Bingham Canyon Mine, located near Salt Lake City, Utah is the largest mine in the entire world and one of the few man-made that can be seen from the cosmos. Its main products are copper, silver, and gold.
The Shoshone The Shoshone are a Native American tribe was located in parts of western Wyoming, and Montana, central, and southern Idaho, and several parts of Utah, Nevada, and Oregon. The Shoshone were also known as the snake nation along with there neighbors the Bannock. In the west the Shoshone lived in roofless grass huts and they hunted fish, birds, and rabbits. In the north and east they lived in tepees, rode horses, and hunted buffalo.
In the 1800’s settlers came to the Shoshone’s territory and soon both grassland and buffalo were disappearing. Many Shoshone were growing worried about there land. Chief Washakie (the chief of the snake nation) thought that the two groups should help each other. He helped the United states defeat the Sioux and the Cheyenne in return he asked for schools and hospitals and a reservation in Wind River Valley. In 1868 Chief Washakie signed the Fort Bridger treaty which established that Wind River Valley and Fort Hall reservation for the Shoshone Indians.
Louis and Clark Captain Meriwether Lewis and lieutenant William Clark led a mission throughout the Louisiana purchase ( includes the rocky mountains) to explore it for Thomas Jefferson. They took 40 people with them.
Gold rush For many years only trappers and Mormons lived in the rocky mountain region until 1849 when golden nuggets were found in a stream near Pikes Peak. Thousands of people came seeking fortune in the rocky mountains. By 1860 a settlement called cherry creek got changed to Denver. But by the 1900’s all the gold had run out and community’s were turning into ghost towns almost over night.
Women’s rights Wyoming isn’t nicknamed the equality state for nothing. You might know that every citizen above 18 has the right to vote now. It wasn’t that way before. Only men got to vote.
In 1848 the fight for women’s rights started at a meeting in Seneca falls New York. Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the women argued that there should be equality between both men and women. They surmised there ideas into a document called the declaration of rights and Sentiments. They basically said that all rights that belong to men should belong to women as well.
In 1851 Susan B Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at Seneca Falls and they discussed what women should be able to do and started getting the group together. In 1872 Susan B. Anthony got arrested for going to a voting place and trying to vote during a presidential election.
In the 1860’s to the 1870’s Stanton and Anthony traveled around the Rocky Mountain region states to speak about there cause and gradually the region gave support to there cause.
Esther Morris of South Pass City had just moved to Wyoming from Illinois in 1869. Esther Morris was a strong speaker and believed in this woman rights movement. She helped convince Wyoming’s lawmakers into making a law that gave woman the right to vote and in December of that year Wyoming women of the age of 21 and older were allowed to vote.
Women in Utah got the right to vote in 1870 the year after Wyoming legislature passed the law 1869.