Wyoming Trivia (Renamed) (Rock Springs, Cody, Eden: newspapers, Spanish, pottery)

[WyoNewk]

That's interesting! I don't think I'd want to live in Starve Valley!

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by WyoNewk

That's interesting! I don't think I'd want to live in Starve Valley!

Today it's not bad. They got 3 grocery stores now.

[jody_wy]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

Ha! I knew that one!

The name of Wyoming’s Star Valley comes from Starvation or Starve Valley, a name the area gained during bitter winters in the late 1880s. Many cattle were lost in the severe winter of 1889, when more than 40 inches of snow fell during two days and nights in March. Among the towns in the valley, which lies between the Salt River Range in western Wyoming and the Webster Range in eastern Idaho, are Afton (pop. 1,818), Alpine (pop. 550), and Thayne (pop. 341)

nope not what I looking for ,,,,, the ________ river valley

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by jody_wy

what was Star Valley called before it was called Star Valley

The Salt River Valley.

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/W...in_Star_Valley

First Mormons of record in the valley were 40 emigrants, miners
from England, employed in 1858 by F.W. Lander to work on the Lander
Cut-Off of the Pacific Wagon Road. By 1870 Church cattle were
summer pastured in the valley. In 1879 the Church directed the
colonization of the valley. In August 1880 apostles Moses Thatcher
and Charles C. Rich renamed Salt River Valley to Star Valley and
dedicated it for settlement by organizing a branch of the Bear Lake
Stake with Charles Drake Cazier as president with 21 members in 5
households in the valley. 1880 census shows 45 persons in the valley.
1900 census shows 2,219. In 1892 the Star Valley Stake was formed with
7 Wards. The rock meeting house in Auburn was built in the winter
of 1889 and the tabernacle in Afton in 1905. In the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints Sesquicentennial year 1997 there exists
the Afton and Thayne Stakes. There are 15 wards including Smoot,
Osmond, Fairview, Salt River, Afton 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, Grover, Auburn, Bedford, Thayne 1st and 2nd, Freedom and Etna/Alpine, with a combined membership of 6,214. Welcome to Star Valley.

[jody_wy]

yes CapnRn,

The old rock church is a historic place now with summer mellow dramas, Butch Cassidy and mat Warner bout went to dances there as well.

[CptnRn]

OK next question: 167 million years ago, dinosaurs walked along the ocean shoreline in Wyoming. Where can you find their tracks?

[Froggie Legs]

Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite (http://www.geo-sciences.com/rgdttracksite.htm - broken link)

Red Gulch, Shell Wyoming?

[CptnRn]

You've got it Froggie Legs, your turn.

Dinosaur Tracksite

Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite
At BLM's Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, you can imagine yourself walking along an ocean shoreline 167 million years ago with dozens of other dinosaurs, looking to pick up a bite of lunch from what washed up on the last high tide. The ground is soft and your feet sink down in the thick ooze, leaving a clear footprint with every step you take.
The discovery of rare fossil footprints on public lands near the Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway close to Shell, Wyoming, could alter current views about the Sundance Formation and the paleoenvironment of the Middle Jurassic Period.

[Froggie Legs]

What is the location of the archeological site where, in the 1940's, the discovery of spear points and knives dating back to the earliest known evidence of man populating Wyoming? What is the name of the site and the name of the location in Wyoming?

[CptnRn]

I'm not certain, that description could fit several sites, but I will take a stab at it. Could this be the Yuma campsite near Eden, Wyoming?