Wyoming Trivia (Renamed) (Sheridan, Cody, Big Horn: hiking, outside, desert)

[Poletop]

Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge takes its name from the Shoshoni word for the Green River: Seeds-kee-dee-Agie, meaning 'River of the sage hen".. OK Elk hunter, I will agree with you and are correct. You get to ask the next question..

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by Poletop

Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge takes its name from the Shoshoni word for the Green River: Seeds-kee-dee-Agie, meaning 'River of the sage hen".. OK Elk hunter, I will agree with you and are correct. You get to ask the next question..

Thanks Poletop. I knew the River was referred as that, but didn't know there was a particular stretch of the Green.

Ok, here's the next one.

The Bozeman Trail was protected by 3 major forts. Which one was the largest and how long was it in existance?

[KynaMH]

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say Fort Phil Kearny 1866-1868

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by KynaMH

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say Fort Phil Kearny 1866-1868

Outstanding, Ft Phil Kearny it is. You're up.

[KynaMH]

I'll stick with the Forts topic I guess. What was the original name of Fort Reno? (I don't think this was covered anywhere before, apologies if it was).

[Froggie Legs]

Fort Connor... wonder why they changed the name...

[KynaMH]

Good question. I don't know but I'd hazard there was a change in command, and new commanders often like to rename things. But yeah, Fort Connor is correct So quiz away, Froggie Legs!

[Froggie Legs]

Which school stood on the banks of the Wood River on the W Bar Ranch, when was it built, how did it get its name, and where is it now?

[ElkHunter]

Sorry, a slight interruption in your normal broadcast.

About Ft Connor, in case anybody wanted to know. It was founded by Brig. Gen. Patrick E. Connor as a "Temporary post" and later, when they made it a permanent post it was renamed to Ft Reno. By the way, Brig. Gen. Patrick E. Connor is kind of famous around here. The cabin I live in is located on the Connor Battlefield. My neighbor has dug up rifles, sabers, and some tin cups.

Exert from the history books:

"Brig. Gen. Patrick E. Connor founded Fort Connor in the summer of 1865 on the north bank of the Powder River about 180 miles northwest of Fort Laramie, Wyo., in hostile Sioux country as a temporary base for his Powder River Expedition. In November the Army renamed the post Fort Reno. The following summer Col. Henry B. Carrington, laying out the Bozeman Trail defense line, added blockhouses and bastions at two corners of the cottonwood stockade and strengthened the garrison. For 2 years Fort Reno, as well as newly founded Forts C. F. Smith and Phil Kearny, Wyo., protected the trail as best it could from the continual attacks of the Sioux Red Cloud and his Cheyenne and Arapaho allies. In 1868 the Indians burned all three forts when the Army evacuated them in accordance with the Fort Laramie Treaty."

Sorry to interrupt, please return to your normally scheduled Trivia Questions.

[Poletop]

The only Wood River that I know of in Wyoming was up above Meeteesee. I would have to guess maybe the old Dick Creek school. Built around 1890s sometime after the gold discovery up in Kirwin...My guess that it is now located in the Old Trail Town in Cody..