M.S.E.

MSE is a great school to be at. We have lots of fun clubs like orcherstera ,STLP,chores,and academec team.We also have lots of teachers like Mrs.Shaw ,Mrs.Ensor ,Mrs.Terry,Mrs.Ginter,Mrs.Anderson.We also go on lot's of fun field trip.About three weeks ago the whole forth grade went to 4h camp in carlile,we did lots of fun stuff like archy,bird blind,fishing,soil and obsticle course and the night hike.

ale-8

`ale-8 is Kentucky's soft drink.it has been bottled in Winchester since 1926.the CLARK COUNTY FAIR a late one the winning entry.wainscott began bottleing soda water and several flavored drinks in a plant north main street in winchester ,kentucky,in may 1902 .in 1906 he introduced roxa kola ,a popular rival to the cola drinks then avalible .expermint with ginger blended recipes acquired during extensive travels. two years later awarehouse was constructed on an adjacent lot, and six years  after that , a two -story syrup room was added to the main building

ale8one.com

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ruth hunt candy

It all started in in mt.sterling Kentucky home where Ruth tharpe hunt served homemade goods to her bridge club.In 1921 she decided to start a small candy buisness. Today still located in Mt,sterling ruth hunt candies remains a Kentucky landmark.The location is in Kentuky ,Mt.sterling  maysville road lexington Kentucky. in 1921 ruth tharpe hunt reagan to sell confections that her friends had always loved.The most famous is blue Monday. http://www.ruthhuntcandy.com/

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bluegrass music

Bill Monroe  is the father of bluegrass. he invented the style, invented the name, andfor the great majority of the 20th century ,embodiedthe art form. Biginning with his Bluegrass Boys in the 40s.Monroe defined a hard-edged style of country that emphasized intrumel virtuosity,close vocal harmonies,and a fast, driving  tempo. The musical genre took its name from the Blue Grass Boys ,and Monroe's music forever has defined the sound of classicai bluegrass  --a five-piece  acoustic string band,playing preciselyand rapidly,switching solos and singing in a plaintive ,high lonesome voice.Not onley did he invent the very sound of the music.


http://www.allmusic.com/

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Crowheart Butte

Crowheart Butte is located in Fremont County on the way to Dubois.

The Eastern Shoshone had a good hunting tround in the Warm Valley (Wind River Mountains) until other tribes and white men tried to take it over. Chief Washakie sent his wife and a messenger to meet with the Crow's Chief Big Robber. Washakie suggested that the Crow hunt in the Owl Creek Mountains and leave the Shoshone with the area around Crowheart. The Crows wanted to wage a fight instead. Whoever wins would get the hunting grounds and the other tribe would have to leave.
Crowheart Butte was so named because of Washakie's victory. He displayed Big Robber's heart on his lance at the war dance after the battle.

Post researched and written by Ms. Gonzales' 4th grade class
References: WY State Dept. roadside sign at Crowheart
www.WindRiverCountry.com

Pictures from our home

Mrs. Rogers has had her faithful camera out again, and has taken some pictures from a Sunday drive around her home - the area known as Red River Gorge. We have a post about the gorge in which you can read a little about it, but I thought you might enjoy seeing some primary source pictures.

 

Driving through the gorge - had to stop and take this lovely picture

in the valley

There are lots of springs like this coming out of the mountains. In some places, this is the only drinking water people may have unless they drive to town. The water company will tell you this water is not safe to drink, but people have been drinking it for generations. It is always clear and cold. And yes......Mrs. Rogers has had a drink from several of these springs on hot summer days : )

There are lots of large rock outcroppings such as this in the Red River Gorge

See the hiker and his dog?

Kentucky farm - I think this horse is a breed called the Rocky Mountain

Mist on the mountains

The building in the back is the remains of an old one room school house that my husband's relatives attending as children.

Gannet Peak

Gannett Peak is the highest peak in Wyoming. It is considered to be mountain man country. It has five rugged glaciers on its flank, the largest glacier in the American Rocky Mountains. It is remote and considered an exciting alpine mountaineering challenge to climb to its top. The mountain was first climbed in 1922.This trip is best tackled by strong and experienced climbers with a great stamina and who are well acclimated to high elevations.The trip includes trans-versing glaciers that contain deep crevasses that in the early spring that can lay hidden under the coat of shallow snow.
web sites
http://www.pinedaleonline.com/
http://www.priroda-drustva.blogspot.com/
http://www.abebooks.com/ 
http://www.visitpinedale.org/.

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Fort Bridger Treaty

The 1863 Fort Bridger Treaty with the Eastern Shoshones represented part of a process to clear a corridor for safe travel for  whites emigrating to the west and for railway and communication routes. This Treaty come on the heels of two important events: first the Homestead Act of 1862 created a mechanism to encourage white settlement in the Western territories of the United States.Second,and more important to the Shoshones,the Bear River  Massacre in early 1863 made it quite clear that the Untited States was prepared to go to great lengths to compel Shoshones west of Wyoming to comply with demands for passage.Above all political documents, this one is the most important for the Eastern Shoshones. The Treaty of Fort Bridger , 1868, established the boundaries of the Wind River reservation and guaranteed to the tribe a lasting relationship with the United States. Unlike the earlier Treaty of Fort Bridger , 1863, which merely described the outline of Shoshone Country, a territory that lay west of the Wind River Mountains, the 1868 Treaty gave the tribe the right to occupy what had been their hunting grounds. 


Information found at :Windriverhistory.org 

Dinosaurs in Wyoming

We never thought about dinosaurs when we thought about Wyoming, until we started this project. We learned that dinosaur bones have been found in Wyoming, and that there are museums that focus on dinosaurs. We also found a couple of interesting facts, which we have listed below:


In the summer of 2003  Frank and Cris Bliss discovered there first dinosaur fossil from the Hell Creck formation.

                                http://wyomingdinosaur.com/

Scientists are still learning about the age of dinosaurs and tourists of all ages are learning with them.Digging for fossils  is dirty work,but its work that teaches.

     http://away.com/itinerang/unitedstates/dinosuars-wyoming-montana.html

The Continental Divide

The Continental Divide is the term used to designate the line of elevated land that seperates areas drained to opposite sides of a continent. In North America it is also called the great divide,and seperates west ward flowing and east ward flowing waters. It runs through many US states, including Wyoming.

Grand Teton National Park

Located in northwestern Wyoming, Grand Teton National Park preserves a spectacular landscape rich with majestic mountains, pristine lakes and extraordinary wildlife. The park's world-renowned scenery attracts nearly four million visitors per year.

All About Devils Tower

There are always new things happening at Devils Tower National Monument. Rock climbing is a big deal here.

On July 4, 1893 local rancher William Rogers became the first person to climb the tower after constructing a ladder of wooden pegs driven into cracks in the rock face. Technical rock climbing techniques were first used to ascend the tower.

Devils Tower National Monument is right in the North-Eastern of Wyoming! It holds a tower of hot rock from a volcano that rises 865 feet from the Mountains bordering the Belle Fourche river.

http://www.peakware.com/peaks.html?pk=62&view=photos#1

Crops and agriculture of Wyoming

Wyoming has cows and calves. Their crops are wheat, sugar ,beats, beans, barley,corn,oats and hay. Wyoming ranks 8th nation wide in barley production, 20th in hay and 33rd in wheat production. Number of farms in Wyoming = 11,000. Average farm size is 2,726 acres. Total farm land = 30.2 million acres. Wyoming is a cattle country with about 861 of the states total agriculture  receipts being generated by livestock products. 781 of total agriculture receipts can be attributed to bees, cattle, and calves. Hay is the top crop in Wyoming.



http://www.netstate.com/economy/wy_economy.htm   

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My old Kentucky home

The song ''My Old Kentucky Home'', words and music by Stephen Collins Foster, was adopted by the Kentucky legislature as the Kentucky state song on March 19,1928. Foster lived at Federal Hill, which was built between 1795 and 1818. Federal Hill was the name of the building that is now referred to as the My Old Kentucky Home state park.There is a theater there that plays an outdoor production of the story of My Old Kentucky Home.

htt://www.netsates symb/song/ky-my-old-kentucky-home.htm

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Montgomery County High School sports

Montgomery County high school's mascot is the Indian.Our colors are red,white,and blue.We have football,basketball,soccer,wrestling,baseball and several academic based teams. The high school does a large theatre production every year. Sports are really big in our county and we have a large following.


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A Thoroughbred Horse

A Thoroughbred Horse has legs that seem too long for their bodies.        

A Thoroughbred is a particular breed, the fastest breed in the world.

About three hundred years ago,some people in England tried to “create”a new breed of horse.They  would cross two kinds of horses,each of which had certain strengths.

Kentucky with its mild climate and lush blue grass, became an unofficial  center of the Thoroughbred Horse breeding in America.

An officially registered horse has a number tattooed inside its lip.

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Stewart,Gail.The Thorughbred Horse.Minneapolis,Capstone Press

http://www.junglegui.com/free-sports-wallpapers/wallpapers/thoroughbred-horse-racing-1024x768.jpg

Arapaho Tribe

By:5w3The Arapaho lived in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas.

The Arapaho tribe in the north lived in communities called reservations, which is land owned by their tribe.

The reservation is under control by them.They share it with the Shoshone.

The Arapaho religion involved belief in a powerful spirit world.

Today, there are about 4,500 Arapaho.

The Resourses are ...

World Book Encyclopedia 2004

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Chief Washakie's greatness

Chief Washakie said "The white mans government promised that if we, the Shoshone, would be content with the little patch allowed us, it would keep us well supplied with everything necessary. Chief Washakie, 1804-1900, was a chief of the Eastern Shoshone of Wyoming. He was noted for his exploits in fighting and also for his friendship with the white pioneers. When wagons and trains were passing through Shoshone country in the 1850s, Washakie and his people aided the overland travelers in fording streams and recovering strayed cattle. He was also a scout for the US Army.

World Book 2004.
www.shoshoneindian.com

Fremont County Wyoming

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 Fremont County was created in 1884. It was named for General John Charles  Fremont, who was a surveyor and explorer searching for the ocean in 1842. His group of  20 men were guided by Kit Carson and Enos, a Shoshone Indian. The Wind River Reservation covers much of Fremont County. The reservation is shared by the Shoshone and Arapaho Indians. Fremont County produces more than half of the uranium in Wyoming, which is second in the United States uranium production.

Jade is also found in Fremont County which is also Wyoming's state gem stone.

Nellie Taylor Ross"First Womem Govener"

       Nellie Taylor Ross was born November 29, 1876 in St. Joseph Missouri. Her mother, Elizabeth Blair Green Taylor, was a descendent from a family that claimed a distant kinship with George Washington. While visiting relatives in Tennessee, she met and fell in love with a young lawyer, William Bradford Ross He moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, before marrying Nellie Taylor Ross in 1902. She then became the first woman Governor. She died in 1977.
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http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/pio/ross_n,htm

Boom and Bust/Oil and Gas

Nothing so dramatically illustrated the fact that Wyoming's economy remained dependent on natural resources, specifically energy resources,as the mid-1970 energy boom and the ensuing bust in the 1980's.Boom and Bust meant that Wyoming was making alot of money because of the oil and gas they had.

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Oregan Trail

It was the longest overland trail at 2,000 miles long.It goes though prairies and deserts and it crosses mountains in Missouri.Those on the trail traveled up the Platte river and its North Bank to Fort Laramie,Wyoming. Travel on the Oregan Trail was a test that tested strength and endurance and it allowed to travel to new land.

We found our information from a book called the World Book N to O on page 850-856.

http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/CS/SSB/images/Oregon_Trail/road.jpg

Buffalo Bill Cody

He was born as William Frederick Cody in February, 1826 in Scott County, Iowa. Served in the American Civil War, worked as U.S. army scout. From 1867 to 1868, he hunted and killed appr. 4,280 buffalo working with the government on U.S. expansion.He was a great shooter. Public interest encouraged him to put together a live wild west show. He died in 1917.

Found at http://www.biography.com/people/buffalo/bill/cody-9252268ffalo/bill/cody-9252268

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