cheyenne at 150 1867-2017

a special publication by the tribune eagle Celebrate ’s Sesquicentennial this Summer with Family and Friends!

FREE EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES: JULY 4 Kickoff in the Park Romero Park, 1317 Parsley Blvd., 11am - 4pm Celebrate the naming of the city at a ceremony on the banks of the Crow Creek. Mayor Orr will speak about Cheyenne’s founding, history and heritage. Activities for kids of all ages; beverage available for purchase, or bring your own! Annual July 4th fi reworks show that evening at Frontier Park.

AUG 6 Interfaith Gathering AUG 10 History Comes Alive! Celebrating 150 years of faith Historians talk about Cheyenne’s AUG 7 Meet the Mayors rich and diverse history, heritage Happy BirthdaySeven living mayors share their and culture; displays and videos memories and vision at this AUG 12 Family Day Celebration roundtable discussion Classic car show downtown; then AUG 8 Encapsulating Time afternoon of family fun at the park! Time capsule dedication with AUG 12 Gala in the Gardens students, Mayor Orr, City Council; A black-tie evening event (paid) at opening of centennial time capsule; the new Cheyenne Botanic Gardens’ games and displays CheyenneGrand Conservatory AUG 8 150th Party on the Plaza AUG 12 Tap in to History PRESENTING SPONSOR: A birthday party with a huge Downtown pub crawl via the cake, food, live music, and a trolleys; take in historic buildings fi r e w o r k s fi n a l e ! and maybe a specialty craft brew! Complete list of events with details at Cheyenne150.com

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DOWNTOWN CHEYENNE: 1904 DOWNTOWN CHEYENNE: 2017

Stimson Collection, Wyoming State Archives Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune Eagle

Credits what’s inside Cover image: from the editor How Cheyenne got started ...... 5 Blaine McCartney, Key events in Cheyenne history ...... 8 WTE photo editor; s the city of Cheyenne n The evolution of what is archivist historic celebrates its 150th now known as F.E. Warren n Bill Dubois, local histo- Cheyenne’s industries evolve ...... 10 photograph by Aanniversary this Air Force Base and the role rian and son of famous Cheyenne, military base J.E. Stimson, year, the Wyoming Tribune it has played through the Cheyenne architect grow together ...... 12 courtesy of the Eagle staff set out to tell decades. William Dubois II Wyoming State some of the stories and n Stories of many of the n Jill Pope, Visit Spirit of Cheyenne Frontier Days Archives profile many of the key well-known politicians, Cheyenne director of remains strong ...... 15 figures who have had a role celebrities and Wild West operations Managing Editor: Cheyenne’s historic buildings ...... 16 Brian Martin in the city’s history. figures who have either Our sincere gratitude We didn’t undertake this visited or called Cheyenne also goes out to Mona Lee Cheyenne’s lost treasures ...... 18 Assistant effort with any crazy idea home. Pearl, chairwoman of the Famous people who have Managing that we could provide the If these tales whet your Cheyenne 150 celebration Editor/Section definitive history of appetite for more, we hope planning committee, and called Cheyenne home ...... 20 Designer: Wyoming’s Capital City. you’ll visit our website, the rest of her team for all of Cheyenne: Then and now ...... 22 Nicole Lebsack Rather, we hope this special WyomingNews.com, where the hard work they have put section will give you some you’ll find longer versions into this year’s celebration. Famous people who Online/ visited Cheyenne ...... 24 Features Editor: insight into what it must of some of them, along with We hope you enjoy this Josh Rhoten have been like here on the additional images and other commemorative magazine, Wild West characters who high plains back in the sum- coverage related to the as well as all of this year’s passed through Cheyenne ...... 28 WTE staff mer of 1867 and how things city’s anniversary. Plus, 150th anniversary events. writers: have evolved since then. inside this section, we have See you there! The hanging of Tom Horn ...... 31 James Chilton, Among the stories you suggested a small sampling History in Lakeview Cemetery ...... 32 Joel Funk, will find inside are: of some good books that you Sincerely, Kristine Galloway, n How Cheyenne got the can turn to, just as we did. Cheyenne: Tree City USA ...... 34 Becky Orr, nickname “Magic City of We couldn’t have tackled Books about Cheyenne ...... 37 Sarah Zoellick the Plains.” such a large project without n The reason for the rise the help of some key re- Events to celebrate city’s WTE staff and fall of the cattle barons, source people in our com- 150th anniversary ...... 38 photographers: and the impact they had on munity, including: Brian K. Martin Jacob Byk and Former Cheyenne mayor on Cheyenne that can still be n Suzi Taylor, Wyoming Managing Editor, Blaine McCartney city’s past, present and future...... 40 seen today. State Archives reference Wyoming Tribune Eagle UNCLE CHARLIE’S: A CENTURY SERVING CHEYENNE

The Galeotos family came to Cheyenne more than 100 years ago with the innovation of bona fide business owners. Gus (Charlie) Galeotos first introduced the city to a coffee house across from the Cheyenne Railroad Depot and invited his brothers, Sam and Peter, to join the effort. By 1916, the Galeotos brothers opened a candy company where the Hynds building now stands in downtown Cheyenne. A fire abruptly destroyed the shop and forced the brothers to relocate next to the Atlas Theatre, where they operated Athens Candy Company in the area for the next two decades. Offering customers candies and homemade ice cream, they even made deliveries by horse-drawn wagon. When the company moved to 100 W. 17th Street, a café and delicatessen were added and became Blue Bird Café in 1938. A tavern was soon launched when the city began issuing liquor permits. Back then, the cafe offered Pork Tenderloin for $.95 and Chicken soup for $.25.

Now, Blue Bird is Uncle Charlie’s Restaurant, Tavern and Liquor Store. Opened by the sons of Sam and Helen Galeotos in 1976, the family has been serving Cheyenne at 6001 N. Yellowstone Rd. since 1977.

The restaurant has grown substantially since then.

“When it first opened, it was fine dining and well ahead of its time,” longtime general manager Tom Nowak said. “It was table side, Flambe, Bananas Foster, all that stuff. It has evolved considerably.”

Offering a full-service menu, cocktail bar and package wine, beer and liquor, Uncle Charlie’s is truly a one-stop-shop for celebrations, get togethers or after-work drinks.

The tavern evinces a casual, pub-style atmosphere with a comprehensive menu including house-made salads, burgers, pasta, sand- wiches and dozens of freshly made appetizers. Their secret weapon, the Charlie Dip, is a must-try, Nowak said. Open seven days a week and regularly hosting banquets, rehearsal dinners and appetizer parties, it’s one of Cheyenne’s leading spots for large parties and events for groups as small as 10 and as large as 100. Even private party rooms are available for reservation.

Complete with an extensive bar and more than 900 different labels of fine wines, an impressive selection of craft, imported and do- mestic beers and collection of premium liquors, Uncle Charlie’s is sure to quench even the most obscure thirst.

Being a staple in Cheyenne for so long, the restaurant is a regular haunt for many locals, and has served a number of high-profile figures just passing through, including governors and politicians during Frontier Days.

“We’ve kept a non-chain atmosphere over this long of a tenure and we've created a lot of friends in terms of people who’ve lived here a long time and they, in turn, bring new people,” Nowak said.

Uncle Charlie's has withstood the test of time to become one of Cheyenne’s oldest and most eclectic local watering holes and eater- ies.. Whether you’re grabbing lunch with a friend or watching the game unescorted, “Chuck’s” is there with cold beer and hot wings.

6001 N. Yellowstone Road • Cheyenne, Wyoming • (307) 778-7704 or (307) 778-7775 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 5 How Cheyenne got started

By Becky Orr chose the route he wanted all Wyoming Tribune Eagle along, one that goes through Cheyenne. Imagine Cheyenne without Physical obstacles made a house, store, street or even the other westward routes a tree. unworkable. Add to that the absence of “They couldn’t go over the schools, churches and parks mountains. They and the almost constant pres- couldn’t go up through the ence of the wind, and you’ve South Pass because they got a pretty good idea what wanted to maintain a certain Cheyenne was like when it all grade by not getting too began. steep,” Ehernberger said. On July 4, 1867, the spot On July 4, 1867, about 400 that Gen. men celebrated the nation’s Grenville birthday at an isolated spot Dodge, a on Crow Creek set up by U.S. chief engi- Army soldiers, according to neer for the the book “Cheyenne: A Union Pacific Biography of the ‘Magic City’ Railroad, of the Plains” by Bill O’Neal. selected for Although there is some Dodge the future debate about who named the railroad town new boomtown, it’s likely the was part of a vast expanse of decision fell to those men windswept prairie. gathered for the holiday. “There was nothing here,” The railroad put Cheyenne on the map and is the reason for the city’s existence. Gen. Grenville Dodge Dodge did not attend, as he said Jim Ehernberger, a local picked the spot for a Union Pacific Railroad town in 1867, and the city blossomed almost overnight. and others in his expedition railroad expert. “It was wide- This photograph, taken around 1911, shows the magnitude of the rail yards in Cheyenne and their group continued to survey open range land. A lot of maps importance to the Union Pacific Railroad. Wyoming State Archives the area. showed it as a great American The soldiers there had desert with few trees. And it Railroad laid tracks west Frontier Days Old West the southwest corner of his been assigned to protect was .” across the country. They Museum. city is located in south Cheyenne, especially against The arid desert plain was were part of a feverish race to The surveyors named the Cheyenne and is easily vis- the recent actions of the ar- home to a few Native Amer- establish the nation’s first pass Sherman Hill, which is ible in a wide-open area des- ican Indian tribes, including transcontinental railroad the highest point on the first ignated with a historic mark- ea’s Native Americans. The the Cheyenne. But as far as with the goal of reaching the transcontinental railroad. er. The area can be reached Indians had killed three sur- the city of Cheyenne, it all Pacific Ocean. The unique geography of from Dey Avenue south of veyors working in Wyoming, began with the railroad. Union Pacific leaders sent the area provides a way for West Jefferson Road, located including two who were not If it weren’t for the rail- Dodge to scout the vast prai- locomotives to cross the on the south side of a flat far from Cheyenne. road, Cheyenne wouldn’t be ries and peaks in the West. . The area pathway about 100 yards east The soldiers soon would here today. His job was to find the best is called “The Gangplank” of Dey Avenue. be stationed at Fort D.A. cross-country route for the because it provides a long, Dodge platted the site for Russell, located near railroad west from the gradual grade from the Cheyenne largely because Cheyenne. All about Omaha, Nebraska/Council Plains to the Laramie Moun- Crow Creek was nearby. Construction of the fort, the railroad Bluffs, Iowa, terminal. tains. Today, Interstate 80 “He loved Crow Creek which would become F.E. Dodge and fellow survey- runs parallel to “The because of the constant sup- Warren Air Force Base, The Union Pacific Railroad ors in 1867 discovered an Gangplank” from Cheyenne ply of water,” Kassel said. began in October 1867. “was the reason for “amazing pass between to Laramie. Steam locomotives required The Fourth of July celebra- Cheyenne’s existence” and Cheyenne and Laramie that Dodge envisioned large amounts of water to run tion at Crow Creek in 1867 its first industry, according to would allow the railroad to Cheyenne as an important successfully. included speeches by UP Phil Roberts, a history pro- get through the mountains division point on the UP rail- A few options were avail- officials. A sense of isolation fessor at the University of faster and easier than any- road line – a designation that able for possible railroad was present, too, based on an Wyoming. place else,” said Michael meant a town had a good shot routes west. But Dodge se- account by Col. Silas In 1867, thousands of men Kassel, assistant director/ at permanence. lected the best option, Seymour, an executive with working for the Union Pacific curator at the Cheyenne The place Dodge picked for Ehernberger said. Dodge See Started, pages 6-7 PAGE 6 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017

This view down 16th Street likely was made in the 1860s. Early-day Cheyenne was a “Tent City” with a hodgepodge of false- front build- ings and shanties that housed grocery stores, banks, res- taurants and laundries. Wyoming State Archives

name of “Magic City of the Plains.” Pacific route had one thing in com- during his visit in 1868. The account To meet housing demand, carpen- mon: the prevalence of Hell on appears in the online Wyoming Tales ters transported wood from other Wheels towns. and Trails publication. towns and brought them to the new These were “portable” towns that Ferguson wrote that he saw a Started city. followed railroad workers from one “high-carnival gambling saloon and UP also owned city lots selling for end-of-track location to another. other places of immoral character. Continued from 5 $150 each in July. But just three Operators of Hell on Wheels towns Vice and riot had full and unlimited Union Pacific. Years later, he com- months later, the price had skyrock- would dismantle their businesses in control,” he wrote. mented that there wasn’t a house on eted to $3,000 a lot. one location when railroad workers Kassel said lurid stories about the the empty prairie land or even In his book, O’Neal included a com- moved out. They’d stow their build- city were common in the press. enough lumber to build a house for at ment from William ings in their wagons “As soon as the railroad got to least 50 miles. Kuykendall, one of “The wickedness is and set them up again Cheyenne, so did the telegraph. And Still, any sense of loneliness would Cheyenne’s earliest unimaginable and at the next town on the the newspaper reporters here loved be gone quickly. Within a few days of pioneers about the trail. to send stories back East for publica- frantic pace of the appalling. Almost Cheyenne attracted tion in New York, Washington, D.C., the celebration, hundreds of people boomtown. arrived in Cheyenne after news got “Houses were erect- every other house plenty of honest busi- Boston and even London, England, out that the creation of a new railroad nessmen, but the newspapers,” he said. ed by day and night,” is a drinking saloon, town was at hand. Kuykendall wrote. chance to make so By August 1867, the town had a When railroad crews reached “Sometimes for two or gambling house, much money so quick- magistrate, a mayor, fire chief, three Cheyenne on Nov. 10, 1867, crowds three days, there’s not ly from unsuspecting police officers and 900 residents. of people were waiting for them. a break in the sharp restaurant, dance UP workers drew When the population exploded to Cheyenne’s population had jumped to sound of hammers.” hall or bawdy.” throngs of the desper- 11,000 not long after, the police force 3,000 from the time the route was Lodging was at a ate to town as well. could not keep up. announced to the day tracks arrived. premium, as guests at The Rev. Joseph W. Cook Murderers, gam- “Terrible things were happening to Almost overnight, tents popped up one Cheyenne hotel blers, thieves, conmen people who did not have their wits that housed grocery stores, banks, slept two to a bed, whether they knew and prostitutes followed on the Hell about them in Cheyenne,” Kassel restaurants and laundries. Dentists each other or not. on Wheels circuit. said. and doctors hung out their shingles. On Aug. 10, Cheyenne elected H.M. The Rev. Joseph W. Cook was Murders were common. “Pistols Enterprising business people built Hook as mayor and filled many other alarmed when he arrived in are almost as numerous as men,” the hotels and boarding houses, some offices. Cheyenne just six months after its editor of the Daily Leader wrote in with wood false fronts and the rest By Feb. 21, 1868, there were 6,000 creation. 1867. “It is no longer thought to be an made of canvas. residents in town, the Daily Leader “The wickedness is unimaginable affair of any importance to take the Many hastily built shanties cov- newspaper estimated. However, an and appalling,” Cook wrote, accord- life of a fellow human being.” ered the new town, all along what is optimistic Grenville Dodge suggest- ing to a passage from O’Neal’s book. Not long after Cheyenne’s creation, now Lincolnway. ed a census of 10,000 people. “Almost every other house is a drink- people could buy a drink in 70 places By October 1867, Cheyenne al- ing saloon, gambling house, restau- in town, according to www.wyo ready had two printing houses, a post Hell on Wheels rant, dance hall or bawdy.” history.org. office and a telegraph shop. The town Railroad surveyor A.N. Ferguson But soon, those from Cheyenne grew so quickly it gained the nick- All railroad towns along the Union had little good to say about Cheyenne churches got involved, successfully FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 7 supporting a city ordinance to close But the cattlemen’s legacy lives on laying on May 18, 1887. counts differ, it’s thought that he saloons for four hours on Sunday. The in other ways. Cheyenne was one Local Masons and members of the encouraged Cheyenne’s leaders to new law was enforced, but barely. of the first cities in the United States 17th Infantry from Fort D.A. Russell organize a that offered events Still, signs of civilization were to have electric lights, a perk that took part in the festivities, according like horse racing and bucking and peeping through. The first school a poor municipality could not to the book, “The Magic City of the bull riding. opened in 1867 with 114 pupils. afford. Plains.” Col. E.A. Slack, editor of the Tired of crime and mayhem, sev- Such wealthy men built a first- Construction of the center section Cheyenne Daily Sun-Leader, sup- eral men formed a Vigilance rate opera house in 1881 for resi- of the state Capitol was finished on ported the idea and encouraged other Committee in December 1867 to root dents to enjoy, even those of meager March 29, 1888. townspeople to do so, too. out the riffraff. means. The two wings were added in April What resulted was the first “They didn’t keep a list of mem- They also established an elite 1890, the year Wyoming became a Frontier Day on Sept. 23, 1897. bers; they wore masks, and they members-only fraternity called the state. Construction of the House and William Frederick “” didn’t tell on each other,” Kassel said. Cheyenne Club, a huge building Senate chambers was completed in Cody led the parade. At first, these men tried to scare constructed in 1881. Here, gentle- March 1917. About 4,000 people paid 15 cents those who broke the laws. But later, men dressed in their formal best for bleacher seats and 35 cents for vigilantes made good on promises to could sip only the best liquor, smoke grandstand seating. Admission to the hang the offenders. They summarily expensive cigars and dine on cuisine Frontier Day gives park was free. strung up at least five men before prepared by French chefs. The club the city an identity Today’s Frontier Days boasts the they put away their masks. No vigi- covered a block on 17th Street and world’s largest outdoor rodeo and lante was arrested. Warren Avenue during its short- A spectacular modern event performances by musical superstars. lived heyday. known as Cheyenne Frontier Days In 2016, for example, 259,193 peo- had its start in 1897 as a way to help a ple attended CFD events. Visitors Rise and fall city that was down on its luck. After also enjoy free pancake breakfasts, of cattle barons Capitol construction the cattle industry went bust in elaborate parades, art shows, an marks a new era 1887, Cheyenne was doing its best to Indian Village and a free perfor- UP’s decision to locate its route survive. mance by the U.S. Air Force through Cheyenne and not For many years, many Cheyenne At the same time, the Union Pacific Thunderbirds jet flying team. helped establish the cattle industry residents had wanted their city to be Railroad wanted to help itself by At the first CFD, cowboys had to in Cheyenne and the rest of the seat of state government. helping Wyoming and Colorado bring their best bucking horse with Wyoming, according to www.wyo In 1886 – four years before towns along its route. Railroad offi- them to compete. Now, professional history.org. Wyoming became a state – the Ninth cials wanted to increase the number cowboys vie for more than $1 million The cattle baron era in Cheyenne Territorial Legislative Authority of passengers and hired travel pas- in cash prizes, riding roughstock and other parts of Wyoming lasted approved the construction of a state senger agent Frederick Angier to provided by CFD under contract with from 1868-87 and created fabulously Capitol in Cheyenne. come up with a solution. a third-party contractor. wealthy men, who showered collat- On Sept. 9, 1886, supporters broke He helped towns develop festivals CFD helped Cheyenne establish an eral riches on Cheyenne. ground on the site. Hundreds of peo- that visitors could reach by excur- identity that is recognized through- Investing money in cattle was con- ple crowded to watch the cornerstone sions on the railroad. Although ac- out the world. sidered a safe, sure way to make money in the 1870s and 1880s. Someone who invested $4.50 in a full-sized animal, for example, typically could earn a return of $30 to $40. The lure of easy money gave rise to cattle barons, many of whom moved here from the East and from other countries. Their wealth contributed to Cheyenne becoming the richest city in the world per capita in the early 1880s. Eight of its 3,000 residents were millionaires at one time; most of them were cattle barons, who built lavish homes along what’s now Carey Avenue. Townspeople took to calling the area Millionaire’s Row. All this ended during the devastat- ing winter of 1886-87. Blizzards and subzero temperatures killed thou- sands of cattle. Many of their owners In a light-hearted gesture, the first Cheyenne Frontier Day Committee in 1897 delivered an engraved “resolution of thanks” to a lost everything they had overnight. Capt. Pitcher at Fort D.A. Russell for all of the military’s work on the event, according to the book “Let’s Go, Let’s Show, Let’s Ro- Most of the mansions on Million- deo” by Shirley Flynn. Committee members wore fancy top hats and frock coats and hitched a mule to an expensive phaeton aire’s Row were torn down long ago. carriage and a team of oxen to a top-of-the-line luxury coach. Wyoming State Archives PAGE 8 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017

March 9, Sept. 23, 1911 July 1968 1897 Nov. 8, 2016 Jan. 2, 1949 April 22, 1990 1883

1870 1890 1910 1930 1950 1970 1990 2010 Photos by Wyoming State Archives and Wyoming Tribune Eagle

July 4, 1867 Nov. 20, 1903 Oct. 3, 1964 November 1887 Aug. 1, 1985 Sept. 8, 1920 March 3, 2006 150 years of Cheyenne: Key events

July 4, 1867 – The site for Cheyenne is many permanent structures. A site was also was replaced in 1922 with Memorial from around the West. Their numbers were selected by Gen. Grenville Dodge. Dodge selected for Camp Carlin between Cheyenne Hospital. After changes in ownership and a boosted by the decision of local business was the chief engineer for the Union Pacific and Fort D.A. Russell. The camp provided merger with the DePaul Hospital, the name and schools to close, leading to a pretty Railroad and selected the site for a division supplies to several forts. was changed to Cheyenne Regional Medical hefty group in attendance. Admission to point because of its location at the foot of Center in 2006. Pioneer Park was free for the event, though the Rocky Mountains. From that point on, Sept. 19, 1867 – The Cheyenne Daily those looking for a seat would have to pay the trains would need to do serious climbing Leader is first published. The Leader was November 1887 – The Union Pacific Depot 15 cents for bleacher seats or 35 cents for to get through the mountain passes. As the first newspaper in the city and a direct is completed. By this point, Cheyenne had grandstand seats. The first Frontier Day construction of the railroad moved closer to ancestor of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. The become a bustling city, with several large shared some of the pageantry of today’s the site, the city’s population grew rapidly to first issue was just four pages, with single buildings. To keep up with growth, the version, but included a wide variety of accommodate workers, and the legal and issues costing 15 cents and yearly subscrip- railroad agreed to build the sandstone events and spectacles closer to a Wild West shady industries that could profit from tions totaling $12. The second newspaper structure we see today at a cost of show than the organized rodeo seen today. them. Nearby, Fort D.A Russell was estab- started in the city was The Frontier Index, $100,000. The building was designed by Van lished on the same day. which followed the Union Pacific west via Brunt and Howe of City. Work start- Nov. 20, 1903 – Tom Horn, a , for- the railroad. ed in 1885, and when it was finished, the mer Pinkerton detective and notorious stock Aug. 10, 1867 – Cheyenne elects a govern- structure could be seen from around the city. detective, is hanged at the courthouse in ing body, with H.J. Hook as the first mayor Sept. 29, 1867 – The Rev. W.W. Baldwin, a Cheyenne. He was found guilty of shooting and Ed Melanger as the first city marshal. circuit minister from Colorado, conducts a March 29, 1888 – The center section of the and killing 14-year-old Willie Nickell. Horn First Methodist worship service at city hall, Wyoming State Capitol is completed. The maintained his innocence, but was hanged September 1867 – Construction of Fort and the Methodist Society is established. In Capitol was made possible by an act of the on a gallows in the county courthouse. D.A. Russell begins. The fort was created to 1869, church members bought two lots legislative assembly in 1886. Built in parts, protect the Union Pacific Railroad and was from the Union Pacific Railroad for $1 and the structure imitated the classic design of 1908 – Offices are converted to the Atlas named for Union Army Gen. David A. built a white-frame church on 18th Street. the U.S. Capitol and featured a gold-leafed Theatre. The construction of the original Russell. Russell lost his life in the Civil War A new church made from red sandstone was dome. The wings of the building were com- building could be as early as 1887 or as late when a piece of shrapnel hit his heart during built in 1890 at the same location. The new pleted in 1890, the same year the state was as 1888. What is clear is that the building a battle in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. church – still used today – was dedicated on admitted to the union. originally served several purposes and was Records show that temporary log huts for Easter Sunday, April 14, 1894. later converted by architect William Dubois. enlisted men were finished in September, Sept. 23, 1897 –The first Cheyenne Frontier The final product could hold 550 people and with more permanent accommodations 1883 – St. John’s Hospital is built for Day is held. This single-day event would featured a stage, penny arcade, confection- going up in October and November. Unlike $21,000 on land donated to the city by the eventually grow into the multi-day spec- ery and soda fountain. That version closed in Cheyenne, the development of the base was railroad on 23rd Street. This was the first tacle seen today. Organized by city leaders 1929, reopening as The Strand Movie an orderly one, with several phases and permanent hospital built in Cheyenne. It on relatively short notice, visitors came Theater until 1955, and then the Pink Pony FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 9

Nightclub. The building is currently owned by came to town. Woodson asked his friend the Crow Creek Greenway Committee computer in 2017, which was 2.5 times more the Cheyenne Little Theatre Players, who Harold Holmes for help, and he offered to brought the idea of a trail through the city powerful. The center’s completion marked a formed in 1927. They bought the theater in modify a camper into a food truck. Business forward. This plan would eventually grow into change in Wyoming’s economy toward digital 1971 after leasing it for some time. was booming during CFD, and after making the current Greater Cheyenne Greenway services, thanks to a cooler climate, tax code several more trucks, Holmes and Woodson system, which stretches 37 miles around the benefits, and utility infrastructure in the form March 9, 1911 – The Plains Hotel opens in bought the franchise rights in 1969. They city. of cheap electricity. downtown Cheyenne and impresses guests named their restaurant after the first store with plush carpets, tile floors and genuine owner – John. Currently, Taco John’s has March 3, 2006 – The Cheyenne Depot June 1, 2016 – Cheyenne Public Safety marble appointments. Each guest room had a restaurants in 25 states and is one of the becomes a national historic landmark. Center opens. Funded by $25 million in sixth- telephone and access to a bathroom. largest fast-food Mexican restaurants in Wyoming state and federal representatives penny sales tax revenue, it currently houses were present at a special ceremony for the all Cheyenne Police Department and county Oct. 31, 1913 – Cheyenne hosts a ceremony America. The company’s headquarters is still event. The designation came after a signifi- dispatch operations, Cheyenne Fire and at town hall “welcoming” the Lincoln Highway located in Cheyenne. cant restoration and the building becoming Rescue administration and the city’s to Wyoming. Travelers from the East had Aug. 1, 1985 – Known as The Flood of ’85. Six the home of the Cheyenne Depot Museum. Emergency Operations Center. The interior been coming through the Cheyenne area for inches of rain fell on Cheyenne during the Thanks to that restoration, and a change in features metal beams and brick pillars from generations, but the Lincoln Highway finally evening hours when a super-cell thunder- ownership to the city and county in 1993, the the original 1920 structure and has space offered a paved and consistent route. Visitors storm parked over the city. Creeks swelled to Cheyenne Depot is once again a popular open for future growth. from the big cities of the East were looking to the size of rivers, and streets filled with water. meeting spot and host location for community experience the wide-open West in their new In all, 12 people died and 70 people were hurt. events like concerts and farmer’s markets. Nov. 8, 2016 – Marian Orr is elected as the cars on the road. Wyoming was at the top of The storm would have lasting impacts in the first female mayor of Cheyenne. Orr worked their lists, and with routes to Yellowstone city, as stormwater control became a major Oct. 15, 2012 – NCAR-Wyoming as a lobbyist in Cheyenne before her election National Park and Devils Tower added shortly issue in the following generations. That legacy Supercomputing Center opens near and ran on a campaign of servicing the city’s after, the state quickly became a popular road goes through the rededication of Pando Park Cheyenne. The first computer housed at the needs before its wants. After former Mayor trip destination – even as that term was still as a retention pond to the present-day debate National Center for Atmospheric Research Rick Kaysen announced he would not seek in its infancy. over the downtown Civic Center Commons Supercomputing Center was Yellowstone, re-election, 10 candidates formally filed for which was used by scientists across the the open seat, with the two women in the Sept. 8, 1920 – The first flight of the project. nation to study weather, oceanography, race advancing to the November general Transcontinental Airmail Route lands in April 22, 1990 – Citizens bring an initial pollution and much more. At the time, election. Orr won a narrow victory over Cheyenne. With this, the Cheyenne Airport proposal for a recreational trail in Cheyenne. Yellowstone ranked among the 20 fastest in became part of the Chicago-to- Amy Surdam, pulling in 55.9 percent of the In honor of Earth Day in 1990, a group called the world and was joined by the Cheyenne leg of the Columbia Transcontinental Airmail vote. Route. The airport was the highest point on the Transcontinental Air Mail route and was known as the most difficult. Only 14 other airports in the country were designated as airmail stations. Jan. 2, 1949 – A massive blizzard hits Wyoming. The storm raged across the state in one form or another for nearly two months. Snowdrifts were reported up to 20 feet high, and the average temperature was consis- tently below zero. By its end, it had killed 17 people, 55,000 head of cattle and 105,000 sheep. 1957 – F.E. 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By Joel Funk $400,000 congressional appropria- Wyoming Tribune Eagle tion in May 1920. “The airmail started coming Cheyenne’s biggest industries through Cheyenne in 1920, and then have changed and evolved through you have airlines coming in the late time. Even so, the forces that created 1920s and ’30s,” Ewig said. the city continue to drive the local While transportation isn’t economy 150 years after its founding Cheyenne’s biggest employment in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. sector in 2017, it continues to be a For example, none of the industries driving factor in the city’s success. that have come to define Cheyenne With the growing Colorado Front and its workforce would have been Range, Cheyenne’s industries are possible without the railroad. From also driven by outside forces, said that, it developed into a military com- Randy Bruns, Cheyenne LEADS munity, briefly saw a cattle boom and chief executive officer. established itself as the capital of “Cheyenne is very well-situated in what would become the state of transportation corridors, which are Wyoming. economic corridors,” he said. Today, its physical location as a Today, sectors such as warehouses travel corridor, as well as its proxim- Workmen from the Union Pacific Wheel Shop pose for a photo around 1890. The UP and distribution, technology and ity to the growing Colorado Front selected Cheyenne as the location for the depot, necessitating shops such as this data centers, entrepreneurial small Range, continues to make Cheyenne one, which were big job creators at the time. Wyoming State Archives business ventures, health care, man- thrive. And while many communities ufacturing, mining, retail and others in the state fall into a constant boom- are employing thousands in and-bust cycle, Cheyenne is more Cheyenne. While some of these insulated from the market forces. might seem unrelated to the early Thus, it continues to grow, and lead- railroad days that built the city, ers are optimistic about the historic Bruns said they show Cheyenne city’s future. continues to benefit as a transporta- tion hub. Transportation and A military community economic corridor A Fort D.A. Russell soldier poses with a As the railroad was developing, Cheyenne was founded in the 19th caisson-wagon and mule in the 1920s. native people in the West were un- century because of its geographic Wyoming State Archives happy about the encroachment on location. As the nation looked to build their lands. This led to the establish- the railroad that would connect the months of its founding. Like all ment of military outposts along the eastern and western edges of the such end-of-the-tracks towns, local railroad’s route, including Fort continent, the area that became businesses started providing ser- D.A. Russell, with the site being Cheyenne was found to be a gateway vices for workers. Being a location chosen in summer 1867 on the through the Rocky Mountains. for a major depot and repair shops same day the city of Cheyenne was “The railroad came through, which ensured Cheyenne’s future as an designated. created the city of Cheyenne, which important railroad town, according “What has really helped Cheyenne created the territory of Wyoming – to author Gregory Nickerson online to be as great as it is is that, shortly there’s no question about that,” said at www.wyohistory.org. In addition The first flight of Central Air Mail in after Cheyenne was founded, Fort Rick Ewig, associate director of the to those supplying basic materials Cheyenne on May 31, 1926. D.A. Russell was founded as well,” American Heritage Center at the and services, entertainment busi- Wyoming State Archives Ewig said. “(The military outpost from 1997 to nesses thrived in Cheyenne’s early and railroad) are so intertwined as 2016. years, Nickerson wrote. Cheyenne eventually became one far as making them both more of a Cheyenne would grow rapidly to a Again benefiting from its designa- of 14 terminal cities for the Trans- success than they would have been population of 4,000 within a few tion as a Midwest travel passage, continental Air Mail Service after a on their own.” FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 11

Shortly after Fort D.A. Russell was founded and the railroad arrived in Cheyenne, the Army founded the PAST 50 YEARS OF LARAMIE COUNTY INDUSTRIES Camp Carlin freight depot. Hundreds 1969* 1977 1987 1997 2007 2015** of soldiers posted at the fort and camp – including three companies of Total 28,151 36,652 43,181 50,275 61,206 66,805 African-American troops – supported employment the local economy. Top 5 employers Plenty of support sectors were 5,115: Services 6,235: Services 8,561: Services 11,452: 10,837: State 11,395: State needed to provide products and ser- Services and local and local 4,759: State 5,966: Retail 7,461: Retail government government vices for the military and railroad and local 9,475: Retail industries as well. Merchants, gam- government 5,671: State 7,289: State 7,075: Retail 7,149: Retail blers, lawyers, accountants, clerks and local and local 8,592: State 3,958: Retail and more came to Cheyenne to make government government and local 4,385: 4,747: government Accommodation Accommodation a living in what was deemed the 3,709: Military 4,241: Military 4,560: Military and food service and food Magic City of the Plains because of its 4,383: Finance, 2,627: Public service rapid growth. 3,354: Public 3,675: Finance, insurance and 4,253: utilities and Eventually, training for the utilities and insurance and real estate Construction 4,723: Health transportation transportation real estate Spanish-American War and World care and social 3,883: Military 4,196: Health assistance War I made Fort D.A. Russell one care and social of the largest military posts of the assistance 4,397: early 20th century, writes author Construction Marguerite Herman for website www.wyohistory.org. That brought a great boost to local industries during *First year official and consistent eco- **Most recent year official and consistent Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis the time, with public transportation nomic data available for Wyo. counties economic data available routes taking soldiers from the fort to Cheyenne’s downtown. But the fate of the military outpost Cheyenne.” Ewig said. The future of changed in the mid-20th century. The cattle boom brought enormous “This would certainly have hurt After being transferred to the U.S. wealth to the , Cheyenne and helped the city that the Magic City Air Force in 1947, it was renamed with Western reporting cattle in six became the capital otherwise,” he The state is still subject to the F.E. Warren Air Force Base. This counties were worth nearly $7 mil- said. evolution led to it becoming one of the whims of energy commodity mar- lion in 1882. “It’s seen as fortunate Cheyenne biggest missile-command bases in kets, but Cheyenne’s diverse indus- Though the industry would bust remained the capital, because inter- trial profile has kept it relatively the United States. The decision to because of a number of complicating repurpose the outpost was tied to the ests in other communities were real- insulated from such economic dis- factors in the late 1880s, great izing it would help their communities tress, said Wenlin Liu, state of fact it was located in a metropolitan wealth was brought to the city to have the capital located there.” Wyoming Economic Analysis city with diverse support sectors through the cattle boom. This led in In 2017, local, state and federal Division chief economist. for its service members, further part to establishing Cheyenne as a government jobs are the largest em- “The larger proportion of the gov- demonstrating a reciprocal relation- capital city. ship between Cheyenne and the ployer in Laramie County. ernment sector, but also less in the military. mining sector, means the Laramie The capital city County economy avoids a lot of these boom-bust fluctuations,” he said. A cattle boom and bust on the plains Time will tell what’s to come for The railroad brought another in- Cheyenne’s destiny as the capital Cheyenne’s industries. In 2017, dustry boom to Cheyenne in its for- city of Wyoming was tied to the indus- Bruns said optimism remains high mative years: cattle. Some cattle tries that brought wealthy easterners the city should continue to grow. grazing already took place in the to its isolated land. However, for that to happen, he said prairie around Cheyenne before “The territorial government the younger generation now entering 1867. But by 1871, around 60,000 was located here (because) the own- the workforce will have to play the cattle grazed within 100 miles of the ers of all those cattle – (who) were same role as many of Cheyenne’s city, according to an article by using free public range and not pay- founders to further its continued Samuel Western on www.wyo ing for anything except for the cattle success. history.org. In the decade between themselves – wanted to be in close “If you look at Cheyenne’s early 1870 and 1880, a history written by proximity to the government,” said history, a lot of the leadership in the the Centennial Historical Committee Phil Roberts, UW professor of Wyoming’s first female secretary of community tended to be reasonably published in 1967 found “literally history. state, Thyra Thomson, shakes hands young people,” he said. “We need to millions of cattle” came through While some wanted to see the capi- with Rep. William Harrison in front of make sure we create opportunities Wyoming in an era when “Cheyenne tal located elsewhere in the future, her state Capitol office. She remained in for our young population to assume a was regarded as Wyoming, and Cheyenne prevailed in becoming the the position for almost 25 years. lot of those civic leadership roles in Wyoming was regarded as center of the territorial government, Wyoming State Archives the community.” PAGE 12 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 CHEYENNE, MILITARY BASE GROW TOGETHER By Sarah Zoellick to be done. … (But) they Wyoming Tribune Eagle wouldn’t do anything ini- tially because we were not a Camp Carlin: Cheyenne and the U.S. permanent post.” military base to its west The first troops to be sta- Forgotten have grown up together tioned at the fort worked as during the past 150 years railroad patrol, watching supply depot after literally being estab- over railroad construction A once bustling but now long-lost lished on the same day. workers and serving as Army supply depot dubbed Camp The city and Fort D.A. escorts. Carlin was located halfway between Cheyenne and Fort D.A. Russell, as it was initially “Our initial use, or mis- named, each started off with Russell shortly after both came to sion, was to protect the rail- be. ramshackle structures and road workers as they built unknown futures, as work- the railroad across The supply post, situated near the ers and soldiers set up camp Wyoming, and then we sup- Union Pacific Railroad lines and here to continue building plied supplies from the Crow Creek, officially was called and protecting a transconti- railroad up the Bozeman the Cheyenne Depot, but some nental railroad authorized trail for the Indian wars,” suspect that got confusing as the by the An infantry bandsmen inspection at Fort D.A. Russell in the Taylor said. train depot downtown took shape. Northern 1920s. Wyoming State Archives Author Bill O’Neal, in his It is thought to have been called Congress 2006 book, “Cheyenne: A Camp Carlin, or Camp Carling, during the residences and workplaces Early history Biography of the ‘Magic after its first leader, Lt. Col. Elias B. Carling of the Army Quarter- Civil War. of some of the country’s City’ of the Plains,” wrote The U.S. Army started master Corps. Both the military leaders. that one of Cheyenne’s sur- The base became a Fort D.A. Russell in 1867 to city and fort, veyors found the body of Camp Carlin eventually became now named National Historic Land- offer protection from Native another surveyor, riddled the country’s second-largest mark in 1975 after previ- Americans as the railroad Warren Francis E. with arrows, on July 18, quartermaster depot, sending food Warren Air ously being entered on the took shape here, in what was 1867, about 6 miles east of and other military supplies by National Register of Force Base, stayed their known at the time as the town, presumably killed by wagon train to 12 Army posts and Historic Places. respective courses, chang- . It was Arapahoe Indians. And three Indian agencies – some being ing and adapting over time. “How many Air Force named after Gen. David A. hundreds of miles away from here. bases will be turning 150 in earlier that month, on July 5, And as the mission and pur- Russell, an officer killed in the near future?” said Paula two railroad employees Unlike Fort D.A. Russell, Camp pose of one has evolved, so action while fighting for the Taylor, director of the reportedly were killed at a Carlin was manned by hundreds of has the other. Union Army in the Civil War. ravine of Crow Creek. civilian personnel, which included Warren ICBM and Heritage “We originally had wood- While Cheyenne has Museum at F.E. Warren Air O’Neal quoted Francis E. teamsters, packers and laborers. grown from a pop-up tent en structures that were Warren, for whom the base The camp was composed of 16 Force Base. “This opportu- considered deplorable, city along the railroad to the nity that we have here is currently is named, as say- large warehouses and many shops according to a major who capital of the 44th state to very unique, and it’s some- ing nearly 50 years after his for blacksmiths, saddle makers, enter the Union, the base thing that we should all was sent out to check out the 1868 arrival here that carpenters and more. More than has seen infantry, cavalry acknowledge and treasure.” quality of housing,” Taylor “Cheyenne was then a city 100 wagons and five pack mule and field artillery units Although initially plotted said. of shanties and tents, camps trains operated from the depot, make way for missiles when as a post to protect railroad “He had the best room on and covered wagons,” and and 1,000 mules were often housed in the corrals. the Army made way for the workers from Native post when he came to stay, “the prevailing idea seemed Air Force. American attacks, Taylor and they only allowed him to to be that in six months The camp was ordered to be aban- Flimsy wooden structures said the fort went on to sup- stay in it once they scooped hardly a stake would be left doned in 1890 after most Indian and crude log cabins erect- port many other wars and all the snow out of it,” she to mark the location of (it).” tribes began living on reservations ed before the base became insurrections and anything continued. Despite those preconcep- and many Army posts in the area official eventually were the American military was “At the end of his report, tions, though, the city and closed. Only a small stone marker, replaced with majestic involved in going forward. he said it was the most de- base formed an early bond. standing where the camp’s flag brick buildings and homes That included the Spanish- plorable housing he’d ever O’Neal noted that the Daily pole used to be on what is now F.E. that have stood the test of American War, World War I seen in the military, and Leader newspaper in Warren Air Force Base, remains. time and still serve as the and World War II. that, yes, something needed Cheyenne said just a year FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 13 after the fort and city came to in 1944; country music sing- be that, “One of the most Visiting history er-songwriter Chris LeDoux, important adjuncts to the whose father also was sta- prosperity of Cheyenne is The Warren ICBM and Heritage tioned here; actor James Earl Fort D.A. Russell.” Museum at F.E. Warren Air Force Jones’ wife, actress Cecilia The post became a perma- Base is open to the general Heart, who was born on base; nent Army installation in public. The museum, which turns Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr., 50 years old this year, features a 1884 when the U.S. Depart- the first black man to become dress uniform of David A. ment of War designated it as a general in the U.S. military; Russell, for whom the original and Maj. Walter Reed, who such because of its strategic post was named, along with was instrumental in estab- location on a major railroad Francis E. Warren’s writing desk, halfway between the Mexico a trunk of his daughter’s, and lishing the U.S. military’s and Canada borders. It was various missile memorabilia and medical corps. at that time that the brick uniforms. “The medical corps wasn’t structures still in use on established until 1889,” base today began to be The museum is open Monday- Taylor said, adding that two Wednesday and Friday from constructed. posts were chosen for for- 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Thursday from mally training them: Fort The oldest structures still 1 p.m.-4 p.m. It is closed week- on base, dubbed “dollhous- D.A. Russell and another ends and holidays. To schedule a post. Three men in a cherry picker Examples of the three different es,” continue to house mili- visit, which must be done at tary families stationed here. “So we’re the beginning of bolt together the Minuteman missiles that F.E. Warren has least 48 hours in advance, the medical corps,” she said. display at the Warren Air Force been responsible for can be seen “As funding became avail- contact museum director Paula “That’s why he was here. We Base main gate in June 1964. today right outside the base able, and (based on) what- Taylor at 307-773-2980 or officially trained the first set Wyoming State Archives ever plans that the quarter- by email at paula.taylor.1@us. entrance. WTE/file of medical hospital stewards master had on file that were af.mil. (nurses).” post became an artillery continuously, for nearly 40 approved to be used, they Each year, the public can training center in 1900. years. would build new structures William “Billy” Mitchell, tour a few of the historic In the 1930s, as America “(We) should have been each year,” Taylor said. whom the Air Force recog- homes at F.E. Warren Air entered World War II, the closed down, but because of “(That’s) why there are dif- nizes as the “Father of Air Force Base during Fort D.A. post transitioned to serving Sen. Warren, we were kept ferent plans at different ends Power”; and Gen. Mark Russell Days, a celebration as a Quartermaster Training open to present day, and of the post.” Clark, who commanded of the base’s history that Center for the Army. that’s why we’re 150 years The country’s War Allied forces in Italy during takes place during the first The post also housed near- old this year,” Taylor said. Department reportedly World War II. weekend of Cheyenne ly 1,000 German and Italian In the wake of Army down- spent $400 on trees and Other famous figures who Frontier Days. prisoners of war in 1943, sizing after World War II, the bought 50 bushels of grass have spent time at the base some of whom died and were U.S. Air Force, still in its seed from Omaha to beautify through the years are singer- buried in the cemetery on infancy, took over Fort F.E. the permanent post. songwriter Neil Diamond, Modernizing base. Warren and has carried it Some noteworthy histori- whose father was stationed the mission President Herbert Hoover along to its modern-day mis- cal residences on base are here; legendary Rat Pack renamed the post Fort sion. As a result, F.E. Warren those of Gen. John J. “Black member Sammy Davis Jr., Fort D.A. Russell’s mission Francis E. Warren in 1930 to Air Force Base, as the instal- Jack” Pershing, son-in-law of who was stationed here after providing protection from honor longtime Wyoming lation was formally re- Francis E. Warren; Gen. being drafted into the Army Indians continued until the U.S. Sen. Francis Emroy named in 1949, is considered Warren, a Massachusetts the country’s oldest continu- farm boy and Civil War vet- ally active base in the Air eran who moved to Cheyenne Force system. in 1868 at the request of his “We never closed our hometown friend, Amasa R. doors,” Taylor said. Converse. “There are older posts in Warren, a Medal of Honor the system, but they’ve recipient, grew into one of the opened and closed … that’s most influential political and the difference.” economic figures in the city In 1957, the base became and state’s history, taking on the country’s first operation- several leadership positions al Intercontinental Ballistic at various levels of govern- Missile (ICBM) unit, respon- ment – including mayor of sible for 24 Atlas missiles, Cheyenne, territorial gover- ready to be launched from nor and the first above-ground silos in east- of the state of Wyoming – ern Wyoming, western before being named to fed- Nebraska and northern eral office. He then served in Colorado. Fort D.A. Russell barracks, buildings 220-232, circa 1910. Stimson Collection/Wyoming State Archives that capacity, though not See Grow, page 14 PAGE 14 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017

don’t blow away. The following year, a year The missile closest to after the Korean War began, GROW Interstate 25 is the Peace- the base population report- keeper. The middle missile is edly was clocking in at more Continued from 13 the Minuteman III, and the than 12,000. one closest to the base is the “We were the first to have According to a recent eco- Minuteman I. nomic impact report from our operational wing avail- A transporter erector re- able to launch all of our mis- F.E. Warren Air Force Base, cently was added to the base the base had 4,237 personnel siles out of a squadron,” entrance area as well. Taylor said. in fiscal year 2016, with The area also features a around 1,000 of those people The Minuteman I missile, Bell UH-1F Huey helicopter stored in underground being civilian employees. that was used to transport That number includes offi- launch silos, replaced the Minuteman I personnel to Atlas in the early 1960s. Then cers and enlisted military and from missile sites be- personnel, but not their the Minuteman III missile, tween 1966 and 1980. Several the first ICBM to feature families. airmen spent 400 hours re- As the base grew up and its multiple warheads – each storing the helicopter, com- mission transitioned in the programmable to attack a pleting the project in 2000. late 1950s to supporting the different target – replaced the Although helicopters are Pilot Maj. Duke Waren checks his instrument panel in his UH-1N country’s fleet of ICBMs, city Minuteman I missile by 1975. still active at F.E. Warren, Huey helicopter during a flight over Laramie County in March 2015. Ten years later, the Air the base is somewhat unique Although helicopters are still active at F.E. Warren, the base is some- residents lost their once- Force introduced the in that it is an Air Force base what unique in that it is an Air Force base without an active runway unfettered access to it. Peacekeeper missile, which without an active runway for for fixed-wing aircraft. Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune Eagle But the base’s new missile featured 10 independent fixed-wing aircraft. mission did bring with it a changed three times – and its “Our open house (during renewed need for coopera- warheads – making it the most “We had an airfield in 1919 mission has changed several CFD) is re-enactments of the that was out of dirt, and it was tion with the city. powerful ICBM in the world. times – one thing has held military, so we’re still doing Spirit of Cheyenne Frontier Days primarily used to transport For instance, housing was The country’s Peacekeeper strong: its connection to the what they did over 100 years mail across the United built in Cheyenne for the missiles were deactivated in Cheyenne community. States,” Taylor said. “Other later,” she said. workers so they could go out 2005, and the Minuteman III “We’ve never had one with- people used it, including The military remains heav- and build the Atlas missile missiles were modified to out the other – we’ve sup- Eddie Rickenbacker in 1919, ily involved in CFD events, housing systems, Taylor feature only one warhead. ported each other all along,” supplying numerous volun- Currently, the base is re- who landed on it, didn’t know said. Taylor said. teers for concerts and other “There was a lot of unity in strong more than a century later sponsible for 15 missile alert there was a ditch across it, “And one of the ways that and flipped his plane.” happenings, marching in working together, and that’s facilities and 150 Minuteman you can see that support is parades and being honored Wyoming Tribune Eagle III missiles located in eastern Rickenbacker, a Medal of what really makes us so Cheyenne Frontier Days during the rodeo on Military Wyoming, western Nebraska Honor recipient, is known for unique compared to the other involvement,” she continued. Monday. In 1897, Loveland, Colorado, had and northern Colorado. being America’s most suc- military installations in the “The base has been highly Regarding public safety, its popular Corn Roast Festival. Examples of the three cessful fighter ace in World involved in every Cheyenne Air Force system,” she said. Taylor mentioned that the Greeley, Colorado, residents could different missiles that F.E. War I. Frontier Days from 1897 to The 2015-2017 90th Missile base helped respond to the look forward to Potato Day. Warren has been responsible present day.” Wing Commander, Col. 1979 tornado and the 1985 And, for the first time, Cheyenne for can be seen today right Post troops re-enacted Stephen Kravitsky, who Friendly neighbors flood, along with many other folks could enjoy Frontier Day. outside the base entrance – Indian wars in the early years recently events. The first Frontier Day occurred on all filled with cement so they While the base’s name has of Frontier Days, Taylor said. ended his In the earliest years of the term as base Sept. 23, 1897, and lasted six hours. city and post, firefighters on commander, While the Colorado events cel- post helped fight frequent said the im- ebrated the towns’ agricultural boun- flare-ups in town, and mili- portance of ty, Frontier Day honored Cheyenne’s tary firefighters still respond the base’s Western heritage. to large blazes in the city relationship About 4,000 people attended the hometown festival during the first and surrounding area to this Kravitsky with the local day. community year. They paid 15 cents for a bleach- Retired Col. Gerald M. cannot be overstated. er seat or 35 cents for a spot on the Adams wrote in his 1996 “This year marks our 150th grandstand. Canons fired at Fort D.A. book, “The Post Near anniversary,” he said. “We Russell, steeple bells rang at church- Cheyenne,” that a local news- are the first Air Force base to es and whistles sounded at Frontier paper in January 1950 char- achieve that milestone, and Park to signal the start of the rodeo. acterized the base as being we share that accomplish- Now, the event lasts 10 days and Cheyenne’s leading industry, ment with the community. features , huge parades, top- with more than 8,000 airmen The city and the base have flight entertainment, pancake break- and their families living on grown up together, and over fasts and an Indian Village. base or in the city, and the the years, we have developed In 1897, the best bronc rider at city supplying some 900 into an inseparable entity Frontier Day took home a grand prize Atlas Missile Site No. 1. Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune Eagle civilians to work on base. with a rich heritage.” of $25 (about $714 in 2015 dollars). 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Joaquin Real of Santa Paula, Calif., hangs on in the saddle bronc riding competition during the 120th Cheyenne Frontier Days on July 30, 2016, at Frontier Park Arena in Cheyenne. WTE/file Sam Scoville rides “Sen. Warren” during Cheyenne Frontier Days, circa 1907. Wyoming State Archives Spirit of Cheyenne Frontier Days strong more than a century later Wyoming Tribune Eagle The owner of the toughest bucking successful Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild Prairie Rose Henderson and Tad horse collected about $100 ($2,857 in West Show. Lucas. In 1897, Loveland, Colorado, had 2015). Members of Central Wyoming’s Celebrities and newsmakers were its popular Corn Roast Festival. Today, bronc riders can earn more Tribe took part, too, and part of CFD since the start. In the Greeley, Colorado, residents could than $10,000 at CFD, depending on started a tradition that continues early days, the notables included look forward to Potato Day. how many events they win. today with the Indian Village and the Buffalo Bill Cody – a true superstar of And, for the first time, Cheyenne There is some disagreement about American Indian performances that his day – and former U.S. President folks could enjoy Frontier Day. who started Frontier Days. Even accompany every pancake breakfast. Theodore Roosevelt. The first Frontier Day occurred on money is on Col. E.A. Slack, editor of Steer wrestling was added to CFD’s In the 1930s, famed burlesque star Sept. 23, 1897, and lasted six hours. the Cheyenne Sun-Leader newspa- rodeo in 1915. Calf roping, bull riding Sally Rand performed at Frontier While the Colorado events cel- per. He wrote about the idea in his and bareback riding became regular Days and caused quite a stir with her ebrated the towns’ agricultural boun- newspaper. events during the 1920s. fan dance. She married Turk Green- ty, Frontier Day honored Cheyenne’s Others say Frederick W. Angier, a In several cases, the horses earned ough, a handsome and successful Western heritage. traveling passenger agent for the more money than the riders. Large cowboy and movie stuntman. To no About 4,000 people attended the Union Pacific Railroad Co., thought it crowds came out to watch equine one’s surprise, their union didn’t last. hometown festival during the first up as a way to attract people from legends like “Steamboat,” the world In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, the year. They paid 15 cents for a bleach- Denver and other areas to Cheyenne. champion bucking horse. list of stars at Frontier Days included er seat or 35 cents for a spot on the Angier’s job was to urge business- It’s not clear when women started Fred McMurray, Dennis Morgan, grandstand. Canons fired at Fort D.A. men in towns along the rail lines to to compete at the event, but informa- Arthur Godfrey, Lawrence Welk, the Russell, steeple bells rang at church- organize festivals. tion shows they may have been a part Lone Ranger Clayton Moore, es and whistles sounded at Frontier Some historians credit both men of the wild horse races since 1899. Michael Landon from television’s Park to signal the start of the rodeo. for working together on the idea and By 1900, women raced horses for “Bonanza” and Robert Conrad of Now, the event lasts 10 days and bringing it to reality. the $25 top prize. Cowgirls some- “Wild Wild West.” features rodeos, huge parades, top- City boosters decided to continue times competed in events like bronc The history of CFD is one written flight entertainment, pancake break- the event the next year because of the riding and roughstock in the very with the help of volunteers and a fasts and an Indian Village. success of its first outing. early days. strong community spirit. It continues In 1897, the best bronc rider at The 1898 celebration was expand- Many of these women became today when Cheyenne welcomes the Frontier Day took home a grand prize ed to two days, and 6,000 people outright stars of the rodeo. Audiences rest of the world during the last full of $25 (about $714 in 2015 dollars). watched a performance of the wildly loved cowgirls like Mabel Strickland, week of July. PAGE 16 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne’s historic buildings

TIVOLI BUILDING

One of the highlights of down- wife, Carol, purchased the Tivoli town Cheyenne is the three-story Building in 2006, completed exten- Tivoli building at West Lincolnway sive renovations in 2007 and used it and Carey Avenue. as his campaign headquarters in Built in 1892 at a cost of more than 2010. As a result, the building is $15,000, the Tivoli has spent much fashioned for use as office/banquet of its long history as a bar/saloon space. and restaurant, changing hands Local businessman Sam Galeotos from time to time. It also was known bought the Tivoli Building from the for serving as a brothel. Meads in October 2016. He said at The year the Tivoli was built, the that time that Cheyenne Frontier Cheyenne Daily Sun newspaper Days once owned the building, and reported that the building’s fixtures it also was the former headquarters were as fine as could be seen west of of the Greater Cheyenne Chamber Chicago. The newspaper described of Commerce. The Wyoming State Capitol pictured in The Wyoming State Capitol pictured the building as having “palatial Freedom’s Edge Brewing Co. 1888. Wyoming State Archives in 2016. Blaine McCartney/ quarters” and said its antique oak also briefly operated out of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle furniture was “very massive and Tivoli before moving to a more handsome.” industrial-type space on Pioneer Current Gov. and his Avenue near 15th Street. WYOMING STATE CAPITOL Twenty-one years after Cheyenne going extensive restoration renova- came to be, and two years before tions, set to be completed before the Wyoming officially became a state, 2019 legislative session. its skyline changed with construc- Statues of Esther Hobart Morris, a tion of the center section of the leader of Wyoming’s suffrage move- Wyoming State Capitol. Two side ment and the first female justice of wings were completed in 1890, just the peace in the United States, and in time to celebrate statehood, and Shoshone Chief Washakie stand in an expansion approved in 1915 front of the Capitol. An 18-foot sculp- made the building what it is today. It ture of a horse and rider, called “The is now on the National Register of Spirit of Wyoming,” is on the west- Historic Places. ern side of the building, while the The territorial government ap- eastern lawn features a large bison proved construction of the Capitol sculpture. The Tivoli Building pictured in 1987. Wyoming State Archives in 1886 and chose Cheyenne for its The Cheyenne Daily Leader home. Materials imported from reported in July 1890 that, “In all around the country went into build- Cheyenne, which is pre-eminently ing the Capitol – sandstone from a city of handsome buildings, no Rawlins; flagstone from Fort structure compares in massiveness Collins, Colorado; black and white and beauty with Wyoming’s state- marble from Vermont and Italy; house, a noble structure at the head stained glass from England; and of Capitol Avenue. The Capitol lumber from Ohio. surroundings contribute in no small The state Capitol sports a 50-foot- degree to its attractiveness.” wide gold-leafed dome, visible from The Wyoming State Museum has miles away. Both the Senate and on display an original hand-forged House of Representatives chambers nail from the Capitol, as well as an were fashioned with stained-glass ivory-and-gold gavel used by the ceilings featuring the state seal. first state Legislature and other The building is currently under- items. The Tivoli Building pictured in 2016. WTE/file FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 17

CHEYENNE DEPOT

Now home to a visitor informa- clock tower; however, the clock, tion center, railroad museum, res- with four 6-foot, 4-inch-wide faces, taurant/brewery and offices in- each facing in one of the cardinal stead of a passenger terminal, the directions, was not placed in the Cheyenne Depot is a landmark that tower until 1890. According to a has a rich history of welcoming nomination form for the National visitors to the city. Register of Historic Places, the It, too, is listed on the National clock tower originally featured a Register of Historic Places. breezeway at its base so wagons and Situated at the terminus of carts could pass under it. The nomi- Capitol Avenue, opposite the state nation form describes the The Atlas Theatre in the early 1970s. Wyoming State Archives Capitol, the Union Pacific Railroad Romanesque-style depot as the Depot was built at a time when most distinctive depot built by the Cheyenne was maturing and com- Union Pacific in the 19th century. ing into its own. Major renovations to lengthen To keep up with growth, the rail- the east end of the building took road agreed to build the depot at a place in 1922, and it was redeco- cost of $100,000. It was constructed rated in 1929. of sandstone from Fort Collins, Union Pacific reportedly donated Colorado, in 1886 and 1887. When the building to the city of Cheyenne the depot opened to the public, it and Laramie County in 1993. Many reportedly featured waiting rooms upgrades and renovations have finished with red oak for men and taken place since, including the women, and the women’s waiting addition of a plaza area between the room had a fireplace and cushioned depot building and West furniture. Lincolnway that is used for a vari- The Atlas Theatre pictured in 2016. WTE/file The most prominent feature of ety of community events, from the depot building is its six-story concerts to farmers markets. ATLAS THEATRE Constructed around 1887 to be Players, a group of volunteers used as offices and a tearoom, founded in 1929, began leasing the what’s now known as the Atlas building in 1966, changing the Theatre at 211 W. Lincolnway in name back to Atlas and renovating downtown Cheyenne came to be in the long-unused auditorium space about 1908. It was added to the to present annual summer old-fash- National Register of Historic ioned melodramas that still take Places in 1973. place there today during Cheyenne According to a 1972 nomination Frontier Days. The CLTP bought form for the National Register of the Atlas in 1971. Historic Places, the Cheyenne A recently formed ad hoc com- Daily Leader newspaper reported a mittee of CLTP called The Friends day before the opening of the Atlas of the Atlas is working to restore Theatre that the theater had been and preserve the theater through a The Cheyenne Depot pictured in 1906. Stimson Collection/ described as the “prettiest show- long-term project that will modern- Wyoming State Archives house west of the Missouri.” ize the performance and audience Initially, the space converted by space and repurpose the now- architect William Dubois could vacant second and third floors to- hold 550 people and featured a ward the front of the building. stage, penny arcade, confectionery The group announced in May of and soda fountain. The Atlas of- this year that the Cheyenne fered traveling vaudeville acts, Downtown Development Authority followed by silent movies. It closed awarded it a façade renovation in 1929 and reopened as The Strand grant that first requires the group to Movie Theater, showing sound raise matching funds. pictures until 1955. Around the A painted, asbestos stage curtain early 1960s, a nightclub called the with advertisements that dates Pink Pony is said to have operated back to the days of the original Atlas briefly in the lobby area. Theatre continues to hang in the The Cheyenne Little Theatre performance space today. The Cheyenne Depot pictured in 2012. WTE/file PAGE 18 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Lost treasures live on only in history

By Joel Funk “It was gorgeous,” Pope said. “All director of the American Heritage offerings, impressive furnishings, Wyoming Tribune Eagle the performers wanted to come here Center at the University of Wyoming saloon and billiard parlor. because we had railroad access to it. from 1997 to 2016. Ornamental carvings and lighting Cheyenne’s historic structures are And not just from the U.S., but from The rich from the East and made for a beautiful atmosphere for a big part of what residents and visi- several countries.” England came to the establishment to hosting distinguished visitors. In tors love about the city. Whether it’s Opening night at the three-story enjoy fine dining, drinks and enter- the early 20th century, President the Atlas Theatre, Tivoli Building, Opera House in May 1882 saw the tainment. But after the cattle boom Theodore Roosevelt also visited the Cheyenne Depot or Wyoming State entire city join in the excitement. The bubble burst in the late 1880s, the hotel. Capitol, their characteristics fasci- Cheyenne Daily Leader newspaper club was left behind as many of the The Inter-Ocean was one of nate those who gaze upon them. reported the venue was, “A lasting industry barons fled the area. Cheyenne’s first buildings to feature But some of the city’s greatest proof to all comers of the intelligence The building was eventually pur- electric power. In 1916, a blaze de- structural treasures are lost to time and refinement of this little city of chased by the Cheyenne Chamber of stroyed the hotel, apparently started and dust. Whatever becomes of less than 4,000 people.” Commerce, serving as its headquar- by electrical wiring. The fire burned Cheyenne’s historic structures, Need for repairs and renovations at ters before it built a new office near- through the bitterly cold night, with “Once they’re gone, they’re gone the Opera House, however, dogged by. A block of store buildings would several people perishing as a result. forever,” said Jill Pope, Visit its short time in operation. A fire in come to occupy the site that was once Sitting as a vacant lot for many Cheyenne director of operations for 1888 caused hundreds of dollars in home to the opulent club after it was decades, the site is now the home of visitor services. damages before it was sold by its demolished in 1936. the Hynds Building. “We have lost some of our trea- corporate owners for $5,000. Another sures,” she said. “I hope we do take fire in 1902 ended its era as an enter- care of the ones we have remaining. If tainment venue, as the stage was Mansions on nothing else, for our children to un- destroyed. The building was torn Millionaires Row derstand history in that way.” down around 1960. Cheyenne’s economic boom in the late 19th century saw a remarkable number of wealthy residents in the area. To house their families and host social events, these elites built a se- ries of mansions along 17th Street and Ferguson Street, which today is Carey Avenue. These homes came to Inter-Ocean Hotel be known as Millionaires Row. The ornate structures housed fa- In the late 19th century, downtown mous local notorieties such as was the hub of Cheyenne’s economic Erasmus Nagle, Francis E. Warren, Opera House activity. Opening in 1875, the grand M.E. Post, E.W. Whitcomb, David In the early 1880s, several of The Cheyenne Club Inter-Ocean Hotel, located on the Dare, Henry Hay and Joseph Carey. Cheyenne’s most prominent resi- corner of what is now Capitol Avenue The most impressive home on dents came together to raise funds to The Cheyenne Club became a and Lincolnway, spoke to the city’s Millionaires Row belonged to Carey, build an elegant venue for perfor- prominent part of the community bustling success at the time. dubbed the Carey Mansion. Located mance art on the corner of what is during the peak of the city’s cattle Cheyenne’s premier three-story on what is now Carey Avenue be- now 17th Street and Capitol Avenue. boom in the late 19th century. Built in hotel was built by B.L. Ford, an tween 21st and 22nd streets, the Seeking to add a metropolitan flair 1881 on the corner of 17th Street and African-American from Chicago. It three-story mansion’s exterior in- to the area that was still evolving Warren Avenue, it was a clubhouse hosted President Ulysses S. Grant cluded an elaborate façade. Interior from its status as a tent-and-shack for the Cheyenne elite. when he visited in October 1875. features included ornate ceilings and railroad stop, the Opera House’s “The Cheyenne Club really dem- Many other famous locals and travel- frescoes, fireplaces, chandeliers and short history remains one of onstrated the wealth there was in ers made the hotel a popular gather- oriental rugs. Cheyenne’s most fondly remem- raising cattle in the Wyoming ing spot through the years, drawing “It was the most magnificent home bered lost treasures. Territory,” said Rick Ewig, associate people in with its extraordinary food there ever was here in Cheyenne,” FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 19

said local historian Bill Dubois. “It Library, commonly called the was built in 1921 on House Avenue, was very, very elegant.” Carnegie Library, opened its doors at and the old Cheyenne High School Some of the homes still remain on the corner of 22nd Street and Capitol building became Laramie County 17th Street between downtown and Avenue. School District 1’s Administration Holliday Park. In addition to creating Laramie Building. County’s first public library, the In 1960, Cheyenne’s East High funds also brought architect William split the student population, and Dubois to Cheyenne to supervise its Cheyenne High School was renamed construction. He would go on to de- Cheyenne’s Central High. sign plans or supervise building Bill Dubois was a public school projects for some of Cheyenne’s most teacher for several decades in famous structures, including the Laramie County School District 1. state Capitol and Atlas Theatre. In 1959, he went to Cheyenne High The Carnegie Library was demol- Old Cheyenne High School School to be hired for his first job at offerings, impressive furnishings, ished in 1971 when the Laramie Carey Junior High School. saloon and billiard parlor. Carnegie Library County Library was moved to its Today, Cheyenne is home to three At the time, 22-year-old Bill Dubois Ornamental carvings and lighting second location at 28th Street and primary high schools and one alter- said he wasn’t too impressed by the made for a beautiful atmosphere for Cheyenne residents struggled to Central Avenue. native high school. But in 1875, the old building. “It was pretty rundown hosting distinguished visitors. In make a library work in the city’s for- William Dubois’ grandson, Bill city was home to the Wyoming by the time I knew it,” he said. “It was the early 20th century, President mative years. In 1899, the Laramie Dubois, said the Carnegie Library – Territory’s first high school. an old-looking building.” Theodore Roosevelt also visited the County Library Auxiliary Assoc- in addition to the old Consistory Cheyenne High School was located After the school district’s admin- hotel. iation was formed by Robert Morris, Building that was torn down decades on the corner of 22nd Street and istration operations moved to the old The Inter-Ocean was one of who sent a plea to philanthropist ago – is the biggest loss of his grandfa- Central Avenue. The first class of stewardess’ school for a brief period, Cheyenne’s first buildings to feature Andrew Carnegie for funds to build a ther’s projects in Cheyenne. graduates in June 1878 consisted of the old Cheyenne High School was electric power. In 1916, a blaze de- library. Carnegie eventually offered “I feel a great loss when they are two young women by the names of torn down around 1963. (Photo cour- stroyed the hotel, apparently started $50,000 toward a free public library. gone,” he said. “There’s no way you Frankie Logan and Ella Hamma. tesy of the Stimson Collection/ by electrical wiring. The fire burned In May 1902, the Laramie County can resurrect them.” A new Cheyenne High School Wyoming State Archives.) through the bitterly cold night, with several people perishing as a result. Sitting as a vacant lot for many decades, the site is now the home of BUNE E the Hynds Building. RI AG T L Wyoming Home was established in 1998 G E N and exists with the idea of providing a This is how I 2015 st Mansions on M for everyone who has a passion for it. O 2017

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Mildred Harris (1901-1944) KEY PEOPLE WHO HAVE Born in Cheyenne in 1901, Milred Harris went on to become CALLED CHEYENNE HOME one of the Neil Diamond Gowdy died in his Florida home in most famous 2006 at the age of 86 after suffering early-Ameri- (1941-) from leukemia. can film stars. Her father, Born in Brooklyn, Gowdy reportedly launched his Edmond Harris, served as New York, in 1941, longtime broadcasting career the superintendent of the famous singer-song- here on a whim while recovering Wyoming division of the writer Neil Diamond from a back injury that ended his Union Pacific Railroad, moved to Cheyenne time with the Air Force in World which put Cheyenne on the in 1945 when he was War II. He worked first at KFBC map. about 4 years old Radio in 1944, and also as a sports One of Harris’ more memo- because his father, writer at the former Cheyenne Eagle rable roles was in the 1936 Akeeba “Kieve” newspaper. “Three Stooges” movie, but Diamond, was stationed at then-Fort Gowdy went on to cover 16 baseball she is also well known for F.E. Warren during World War II. World Series and All-Star games, 12 marrying iconic comic actor The family is said to have lived here Rose Bowls, nine Super Bowls, 24 Charlie Chaplin when she for four years, and during that time, NCAA basketball Final Four tourna- was just 16 years old and he was 29. Three years later, the Diamond reportedly fell in love with ments and eight Olympics. He hosted couple went through a bitter watching singing-cowboy movies at the “Wide World of Sports” and divorce. No children sur- the local cinema. “American Sportsman” for ABC – vived the marriage. Through his publicist, Diamond many segments of which were filmed Harris is said to have declined to comment on his time in in Wyoming. He also hosted “The Cheyenne for this publication. Way it Was” for PBS and NBC’s “Major League Baseball Game of the Week,” and was behind the micro- Sammy Davis Jr. phone when Hank Aaron hit his then- record-breaking 715th home run in (1925-1990) 1974. Entertainment In 1970, Gowdy became the first legend Sammy Davis sports broadcaster to win the George Jr.’s career spanned Foster Peabody Award for outstand- much of the previous ing journalist achievement. He also century – from just a served as the president of The few years after his Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall birth in 1925 until not of Fame for seven years, and his long before his death peers voted him national sportscast- from oral/throat er of the year seven times. cancer in 1990. But he spent time in Gowdy played varsity basketball Cheyenne during World War II be- National sportscaster Curt Gowdy engaging in one of his favorite pastimes – for and graduated from Cheyenne’s fore it really took off. fishing – on the North Platte River near Saratoga. Wyoming State Archives Central High School before attending Davis, an eventual charter mem- the University of Wyoming. He was ber of Frank Sinatra’s “Rat Pack,” longer experienced the extreme Curt Gowdy inducted into 20 different halls of was drafted into the U.S. Army at 18 discrimination he did initially. (1919-2006) fame in his lifetime, including mul- years old and was sent to Fort F.E. “Back then, people were nicer to tiple outdoors- and fishing-related Warren for training. He was part of him after they decided he was tal- National sports- halls of fame, the Boston Red Sox the Will Mastin Trio, sometimes ented,” said Visit Cheyenne Director caster Curt Gowdy, Hall of Fame and the Wyoming known as the Will Maston Trio, be- of Operations Jill Pope. “He was the radio and TV Sports Hall of Fame. fore that, but had to give up his bud- treated better after that.” voice of the Boston Curt Gowdy State Park, estab- ding entertainment career briefly for Pope said Davis frequented Red Sox for many lished in 1972 between Cheyenne and the Army. It didn’t take long before Baker’s Bar in the 400 block of West years, grew up in Laramie, is named after Gowdy, a his old life and new life merged, 17th Street, which was the only liquor Cheyenne. self-proclaimed compulsive fisher- though, as he was transferred to an establishment at the time open to all Described as a kind man who frequently returned to entertainment regiment. minorities. The owner, Johnny and gentle man who Wyoming throughout his life – often Country music singer-songwriter and rodeo champion In that, Davis is said to have no Baker, was half Indian and half black. took pride in his Wyoming roots, to fish. Chris LeDoux in the early 1990s. Wyoming State Archives FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 21

Mildred Harris moved on from Chaplin with Records artist, took a liking style to help pay his expenses result, she is credited with the prince of Wales. She died to and was inspired by while traveling to rodeo com- being the country’s first-ever (1901-1944) of pneumonia at a young age LeDoux. Brooks even includ- petitions around the country. woman to serve as governor. Born in in 1944. ed the line, “worn-out tapes He retired from rodeo in 1980 State Democrats nomi- Cheyenne of Chris LeDoux” in his and settled with his family on nated Ross for re-election in in 1901, song “Much Too Young (To a ranch in Kaycee, Wyoming. 1926, but she was narrowly Milred Chris LeDoux Feel This Damn Old).” defeated by Republican Harris went (1948-2005) Throughout his career, Frank C. Emerson. on to become LeDoux recorded 36 albums Nellie Tayloe Ross Ross went on to become the one of the American and sold more than 6 million (1876-1977) first woman to direct the U.S. most famous country albums. Mint, appointed by President early-Ameri- music singer- LeDoux’s father was in Nellie Franklin D. Roosevelt in can film stars. Her father, songwriter the Air Force, so the family Tayloe Ross, 1933, and served in that ca- Edmond Harris, served as and rodeo moved around quite a bit. He born in Saint pacity for 20 years. She also the superintendent of the champion attended Cheyenne’s Central Joseph, was appointed vice-chair- Wyoming division of the Chris High School in the ’60s, won Missouri, in woman of the Democratic Union Pacific Railroad, LeDoux is the Wyoming State Rodeo 1876, might National Committee in 1928. which put Cheyenne on the one of several Championship bareback not be a Ross lived the remainder map. entertainers who have called riding title twice during high household of her life in Washington, One of Harris’ more memo- Cheyenne home through the school, and earned a rodeo name, but D.C., where she died in 1977 rable roles was in the 1936 years. He died in 2005 in scholarship from Casper she is certainly someone of at the age of 101. Ross is “Three Stooges” movie, but Casper at age 56 after a College in Casper. By 1970, national importance. buried with her family in she is also well known for lengthy battle with a rare LeDoux was competing na- When Ross’ husband, Cheyenne’s Lakeview marrying iconic comic actor liver cancer. tionally as a professional Wyoming Gov. William Cemetery. Charlie Chaplin when she LeDoux recorded and rodeo cowboy. In 1976, he Bradford Ross, died in office Her home in Cheyenne, was just 16 years old and he marketed 22 albums on his was the world champion in 1924 due to complications built in 1903, can be found at was 29. Three years later, the music label before signing professional bareback rider. from an appendectomy, she 902 E. 17th St. The family couple went through a bitter with Capitol Records in 1992. According to a Country was elected to complete his lived there from 1908 to 1923 divorce. No children sur- The move was said to have Music Television biography term and served as the state’s before moving into the vived the marriage. happened because Garth of LeDoux, he started com- 14th governor from January Historic Governors’ Harris is said to have Brooks, also a Capitol posing songs about his life- 1925 to January 1927. As a Mansion.

Country music singer-songwriter and rodeo champion Chris LeDoux in the early 1990s. Wyoming State Archives First-ever female U.S. Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross works in her Cheyenne Capitol office in 1925. Wyoming State Archives PAGE 22 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017

The following is a sample of everyday life in Cheyenne 150 years ago, as told through articles Cheyenne: in The Cheyenne Leader:

I Nathan Baker began publishing The Cheyenne then and now Leader early on in the city’s life, starting Sept. 19, 1867. LOOKING WEST FROM CHEYENNE DEPOT TOWER

That day, readers likely enjoyed the story about the Sept. 18 city council meeting, which included discussion about the council letting voters decide if games of keno and rondo should be allowed in Cheyenne.

I An editorial on Oct. 24, 1867, started the drumbeat for providing education for young people. Stimson Collection/Wyoming State Archives Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune Eagle “Schools we must have them and have them speedily,” publisher Nathan Baker wrote. ELKS LODGE

I One of the most important days in the city’s early history occurred on Nov. 13, 1867. This was the day railroad crews arrived in Cheyenne to lay tracks. Residents had been anticipating this day for months, wrote the paper.

“The glory belongs to the 13 of November 1867,” according to an article Wyoming State Archives Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune Eagle published on page 3. “Never was any day more auspicious, cloudless and genial.” FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 23

The following is a sample of everyday life in Cheyenne 150 years ago, as told through articles Cheyenne: in The Cheyenne Leader: I The newspaper noted on Nov. 21, 1867, that then and now “rents are enormously high” and “money invested in dwellings will WYOMING DAILY TRIBUNE/WYOMING TRIBUNE EAGLE readily yield from 50 to 100 percent” profit.

I The Nov. 30, 1867, edition advertised a match game of billiards between two “skillful cueists and master of the noble game” for $300 a side. They were to play at Eric Beauvais’ hall.

I “The Julesburg theatrical troupe arrived in town Tuesday evening,” said an article in November 1867. “A Wyoming State Archives Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune Eagle general desire to witness theatrical performances rendered their arrival LOOKING NORTH ON CAPITOL AVENUE very welcome just now.” I A note in the Nov. 21, 1867, edition of the paper said a group of people wanted to form the Cheyenne Bible Society. They planned to order $200 worth of Bibles.

I A defective flue in T.A. Kent’s liquor store started a fire that spread rapidly on Jan. 3, 1870. The daytime fire consumed everything for two blocks. Wyoming State Archives Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune Eagle “All efforts to check the advance of the flames provide unavailing,” the Leader wrote. PAGE 24 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Big names, small stops Presidents, celebrities and even “Papa” Hemingway spent time in Cheyenne

By Kristine Galloway arrived in Cheyenne on a alone. In the hour or so fol- Wyoming Tribune Eagle cold, rainy day, but was lowing, horses and riders greeted with a 17-gun salute. straggled in, sometimes a Many big names have O’Neal wrote, “A short riderless horse and some- drifted through Cheyenne carriage ride brought times a horseless rider,” during its 150-year history. Roosevelt to the Inter-Ocean Lane wrote. Presidents campaigned or Hotel. From the balcony, he Roosevelt’s second visit to visited friends, novelists and was scheduled to review an Cheyenne was in late May actors married their sweet- elaborate parade – which had 1903 as a guest of Joseph M. hearts, and other celebrities to be canceled because of the and Louisa Carey. He arrived stopped through for various weather and sloppy streets.” in the city on horseback, reasons. Roosevelt visited Fort D.A. having ridden the entire way These days, the biggest Russell on horseback the from Laramie to Cheyenne. names come through following morning, accord- Lane wrote that Roosevelt Cheyenne mostly in July for ing to O’Neal. left the University of Cheyenne Frontier Days. But Glenna Lane wrote in “His- Wyoming at 9 a.m. May 30 the city’s brushes with his- tory of Cheyenne, Wyoming, upon a gray horse named torical figures add some Vol. 2” that Roosevelt took Teddy. O’Neal reports the President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady glamour to the story of the U.S. Marshall Frank Hadsell date as May 31. outside St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Records cite the date as “Magic City of the Plains.” and a group of newspaper- Roosevelt changed horses either October 1932 or October 1936. Wyoming State Archives men on the ride with him. twice during the ride, Lane Theodore Roosevelt “Roosevelt had a reputa- wrote. He once again stayed “The president rode wrote in “History of tion for hard and fast riding. at the Inter-Ocean Hotel. Wyoming through the streets Cheyenne, Wyoming, Vol. 2” Former According to one who await- Lane said the citizens of of Cheyenne and out to that Roosevelt’s attendance U.S. ed their return, it was some Douglas gifted Roosevelt Senator Warren’s Terry at CFD required the 9th President three hours later when Roos- with a trained horse he Ranch, 13 miles south of Calvary to provide security Theodore evelt and Hadsell rode in named Wyoming. Cheyenne, where a barbecue for crowd control. Roosevelt supper had been prepared was a popular for him,” Lane wrote. character in By all accounts, F.E. Franklin D. Roosevelt Cheyenne. Warren was a personal friend Another He visited the of Roosevelt’s. former city on at least three occa- Roosevelt made his final president, sions. Roosevelt served as trip to Cheyenne in August Franklin D. president from 1901-09. 1910 upon invitation. He had Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s first visit to just completed a hunting trip stopped in Cheyenne was in September in Africa. Cheyenne 1900, during his campaign According to Lane, “F.G.” while cam- for U.S. vice president along- Bonfils, proprietor of The paigning side presidential incumbent Denver Post and The Kansas for the William McKinley. They won City Post, traveled all the way presidency. that election, and Roosevelt to Khartum to meet Col. He visited became president upon Roosevelt when he came Cheyenne McKinley’s assassination in out of the jungles of Africa with his wife, September 1901. and presented him with Eleanor, in According to Bill O’Neal, Cheyenne’s invitation.” October author of “Cheyenne: A Roosevelt’s visit coincided 1932, and Biography of the ‘Magic City’ President Theodore Roosevelt watches rodeo action at Cheyenne with Cheyenne Frontier they attended of the Plains,” Roosevelt Frontier Days on Aug. 27, 1910. Wyoming State Archives Days that year. Phil Riske services at St. Mark’s FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 25

Episcopal Church. Harry Truman “Bobby has been here, I On the contrary, an entry guess, several times. We with no listed author in President have been here more than we “History of Cheyenne, Harry have been to New York State. Wyoming, Vol. 2” provides Truman I don’t know what the signifi- Sunday, Oct. 11, 1936, as the stopped in cance is, but in any case, I am Big names, small stopsdate the Roosevelts visited Cheyenne delighted to be back here this Cheyenne. If true, that would while cam- morning.” have been Eleanor’s 52nd paigning. He Kennedy visited Cheyenne birthday. served as again almost exactly three According to that entry, U.S. presi- years later. He spoke at the “The party arrived by train at dent from 1945-53. Cheyenne Municipal Airport 10 a.m. to be met by Gov. According to the Wyoming on Sept. 25, 1963, less than Leslie A. Miller, May Archie State Archives website, he two months before his assas- Allison and Brig. General “whistle-stopped” through sination on Nov. 22, 1963, in Charles F. Humphrey, com- Wyoming during his cam- Dallas, Texas. mander at Fort Warren, paign in 1948, and spoke That address is published among others.” from the front porch of the in full on the John F. Kennedy That entry also states the Governors’ Mansion on Presidential Library and Rev. Charles A. Bennett gave June 6, 1948. Museum’s website. the service that Sunday. However, Timothy White “This state of Wyoming, wrote in “History of which has all of the troubles Cheyenne, Wyoming, Vol. 2” that all of us have across the Ulysses S. Grant that Truman spoke from country, nevertheless has the Capitol. He stated Gov. President grown in individual income, Lester C. Hunt and his wife, Ulysses S. so that it is now in percentage Nathelle, hosted Truman, Grant made of growth in the top five states along with his wife and multiple in the United States,” he said. daughter, at the Governors’ stops in “This is due to many rea- Mansion during his stop. Cheyenne sons – the work of the people while he was here, the resources which President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in office and John F. Kennedy you have and, I hope, wise outside St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Records cite the date as after. He national policy on conserva- either October 1932 or October 1936. Wyoming State Archives served as president of the President tion and resource develop- United States from 1869-77. John F. ment, and management of wrote in “History of According to O’Neal, John F. Kennedy campaigns in 1960 at Frontier Park in Cheyenne. Kennedy what nature has given us and Cheyenne, Wyoming, Vol. 2” Grant’s first visit to Former Wyoming Tribune Eagle owner Tracy McCraken is seated visited management of what man that Roosevelt’s attendance Cheyenne and nearby Fort next to him. Wyoming State Archives Cheyenne a has developed from nature.” at CFD required the 9th D.A. Russell was in July few times and Calvary to provide security 1868, while he was a general Ocean Hotel, Saturday at finally stopped briefly in visited for crowd control. serving as commander of the noon, extensive preparations Cheyenne in 1880 on his way Wyoming Ronald Reagan U.S. Army. had been made by that gen- home from Denver to Galena, many times. President “His first presidential visit tleman for the reception of Illinois, O’Neal wrote. He served as U.S. president Ronald Franklin D. Roosevelt was a 30-minute handshak- his distinguished guests and On that occasion, Maj. from 1961-63. Reagan Another ing stop at the Railroad a fine banquet prepared for Herman Glafcke, owner of His first documented visit stopped in former House in April 1873, and he the hour set.” the Cheyenne Daily Leader to Cheyenne was during his the city and president, would make other appear- The same article explains at the time, alerted Gen. campaign for president in spoke at Franklin D. ances in the Magic City,” that Grant and his party ar- A.G. Brackett at Fort D.A. 1960. Then-Sen. Kennedy Roosevelt, O’Neal wrote. rived at 7:30 a.m., much ear- Russell of Grant’s impending spoke during a late breakfast Storey stopped in He added that Grant was lier than expected, and Ford arrival, likely in an effort to Sept. 23, 1960, at Frontier Gymnasium Cheyenne served a breakfast banquet at had to quickly pull the meal atone for Grant’s previous Park. on March 2, while cam- the Inter-Ocean Hotel in together. visit. John Woolley and Gerhard 1982. paigning Cheyenne by Barney L. Ford, Grant headed to Salt Lake Grant and his wife, Julia, Peters posted Kennedy’s full Ellen Crago Mueller wrote for the the owner of the hotel. City following his meal in were greeted by the Third speech on their website, The in “History of Cheyenne, presidency. An article in the Oct. 4, Cheyenne. Cavalry band and dined in American Presidency Wyoming, Vol. 2” that He visited 1875, edition of the Cheyenne According to O’Neal, Grant the Railroad Hotel. Project. Reagan flew to Cheyenne, Cheyenne Daily Leader stated, “In returned to Cheyenne in “After dining, Grant “I have been to this state followed by Sens. Malcolm with his wife, accordance with telegraph 1879, hosted by Gov. John walked up to the hotel bal- five times. My brother, Wallop and Alan Simpson, as Eleanor, in advices received by Mr. B.L. Hoyt. O’Neal wrote that Hoyt cony and briefly addressed Teddy, has been here 10 well as Rep. Dick Cheney. October Ford on Friday evening, that failed to meet Grant when his the assembled crowd. Three times, and I think that the When Reagan landed, Gov. 1932, and the president and his party train arrived, much to cheers went up, and while the Kennedys have a high regard Ed Herschler and Cheyenne they attended would take dinner and hold a Grant’s displeasure. band played the cheering and affection for the state of Mayor Don Erickson greeted services at St. Mark’s public reception at the Inter- The former president continued,” O’Neal wrote. Wyoming,” he said. See Big names, page 26 PAGE 26 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Big names Continued from 25 Lindbergh said Cheyenne, at him before he headed to the time, had airport facilities Storey Gym by limousine. not often found in cities many Erickson said, “I was truly times the size of Cheyenne. honored and privileged to Another Wyoming State represent our citizens when Tribune reporter, Charles V. the governor and I welcomed Warren, took a more light- the president to Cheyenne hearted approach to the visit. and Wyoming. I remember He wrote, “Cheyenne did very clearly his infectious its best to be the perfect host smile and firm handshake.” to its distinguished guest and Mueller wrote that more the hundreds of visitors here than 4,500 people crowded to meet him. It had the plea- Amelia Earhart, second from right, poses with, from left, Col. Leo Herman, Ms. Frontier Edith Gogert into Storey Gym to hear sure of seeing the spontane- and Mayor J.F. Weybrecht in front of Earhart’s autogyro at the Cheyenne airport in 1931. Reagan speak with more than ous smile appear on the Wyoming State Archives 2,000 outside the gym. youthful face of the great She said Reagan asked the flyer as he assured the city that trip June 1, 1937, and and Hemingway married in took a wedding trip to listeners to support his eco- that its best was plenty good never returned.” Cheyenne because it was Yellowstone National Park. nomic recovery plan, help – and then some.” where they met. him conquer the growth of Ernest Hemingway Sarah Bernhardt government spending and Steve McQueen re-elect Wallop and Cheney. Amelia Earhart Famous Sarah Renowned novelist and Actor Steve Bernhardt, but ill-fated short story McQueen an interna- Charles Lindbergh pilot Amelia author also married tionally “Lucky Earhart Ernest in Cheyenne, renowned Lindy” came stopped in Hemingway but he select- French ac- to Cheyenne Cheyenne a married his ed Holliday tress, spent during his couple of third wife in Park for his some time in Guggenheim times in the Cheyenne. ceremony. Cheyenne. tour in 1927. 1930s. At the He and Martha Gellhorn, McQueen O’Neal wrote that According time, Cheyenne had a large an Italian journalist, married married Elizabeth “Ali” Bernhardt arrived in to the Sept. airport operation. Nov. 21, 1940, at the Laramie McGraw here in 1973. Cheyenne in June 1887 when 3-4 edition of Mike Kassel, curator of County Courthouse. Jill Pope, director of opera- Doug Rhodes, the manager of the Wyoming State Tribune, collections for the Cheyenne According to the couple’s tions, visitor services and the Cheyenne Opera House, Lindbergh arrived in Frontier Days Old West marriage license application, trolley for Visit Cheyenne, brought her. Cheyenne on Friday, Sept. 2, Museum, said Earhart came Hemingway had only ob- said McQueen was in town “Rhodes again engaged the and left on Saturday, Sept. 3. by Cheyenne in 1931 when tained a divorce from his doing research for his title Seventeenth Infantry Band, Glisson Winkler, reporting she flew her autogyro across second wife, Pauline role in the 1980 film “Tom which serenaded Bernhardt for the Wyoming State the Lincoln Highway. He Pfeiffer, on Nov. 4, 1940. Horn.” She said the two after she was escorted to the Tribune, summed up said she also stopped at the According to Wyoming married Aug. 31, 1973. Inter-Ocean,” he wrote. Lindbergh’s visit: “He ar- Cheyenne Municipal Airport State Tribune reporter She said he was 43, she was Rhodes previously had en- rived to the strains of a band’s in 1937. Ernest Mai in the Nov. 22, 34, and they lived in Los gaged the band to perform for loudest blare, was conveyed In “History of Cheyenne, 1940, edition of the newspa- Angeles at the time. the arrival of actor Edwin through lanes of clapping, Wyoming, Vol. 2,” Dona per, Hemingway discovered “John Huisman, Laramie Booth, brother to John Wil- cheering, shouting and whis- Bachman, a former employ- while entering the court- county clerk, assisted in mak- kes Booth. tling throngs, was stuck up ee of the Wyoming State house that he didn’t have the ing arrangements for Lois Bernhardt and her com- before a mob at Frontier Archives, wrote, “Amelia marriage license with him. Milner, marriage clerk, to go pany performed a play called Park, was given a ‘going over’ Earhart stopped off as a pas- ‘Half running and half to Judge Garfield’s office to “Fedora” at the opera house. by the press representatives senger on a United Airlines walking, Hemingway went issue the license to avoid “She spoke only French, in private, sat down to a ban- plane on the way from Los out to his auto parked in front publicity. Judge Arthur but Cheyenne theatergoers quet, again stood before a Angeles to New York City. of the city and county build- Garfield performed the cer- were accustomed to French mass of curious and awed She announced to reporters ing and found the license in emony in Holliday Park in a and Italian operas,” O’Neal humanity, went to the hotel, that she would be talking his overcoat, which he had wooded area away from the wrote. slept and went away.” finances for ‘a new globe- left in the car,” he wrote. public view,” Whitehead She left the following Winkler also reported that girdling project.’ She took Mai also reported Gellhorn wrote. She said the couple morning for Denver. FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 CHEYENNE AT 150 PAGE 27

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Celebrating 25 Years In Cheyenne

O the beaten path of downtown Cheyenne is one of the oldest continuously occupied buildings in the city. Immersed in thick woodvine and whimsical horticulture, the exterior of Deselms Fine Art is just the beginning of the city’s preserved art scene. Built in the late 1800s for a Union Pacic medical practice, 303 E. 17th St. has a dark past and bright future. Home to a local ranch family during the mid-20th century and occupied by esteemed Cheyenne news- paper photographer Frances Brammer for a number of years, the building is brimming with antiquity. It’s probably most famously known as the place where Chicago lmmaker Allen Ross was shot and killed by his wife, a quasi-cult leader, in the late 1990s. Aer Ross’s remains were found in a crawlspace of the home years later, the case was national news. Shortly aer, Harvey Deselms moved his art collection to the building and operated in the former crime-scene during the trial of Julia Williams, who was charged as an acces- sory to the murder. Ross’s brother once asked Deselms if Allen’s spirit remained in the building. Deselms jokingly said he’s happy to share the community’s art with all living, and departed, Cheyenne residents. “(Ross’) family said ‘I’m sure if he’s is still here, he’s happier than he’s ever been because he’s surrounded by artists, and art, and beautiful things,’” Deselms said. Now the longtime home of Deselms Fine Art Gallery and Custom Framing, this historic building is getting much deserved amnesty from its rocky past. You’ll be greeted by a small, gregarious Jack Russell Terrier aptly named Dot, who will guide your appreciation for an array of available works for sale. e gallery features everything from pastel paintings to stone, wood sculptures, all original and produced by regional artists. Operating in Cheyenne since 1992, Deselms is celebrating 25 years in business. In addition to selling local art, services include custom fram- ing and personal art consultation. A Wyoming native, Deselms has spent a quarter-century selling art in Cheyenne and it has im- parted notable wisdom. He said it’s dicult to assess the artistic tastes of his customers. Artists and buyers come from all walks of life, and featured art ranges vastly in price, so there’s a little for every- one. at means there's no hard and fast rules that dictate what makes art marketable in Cheyenne. “e longer I’m in this business, the less I know,” he said. “Tastes change, and you can never judge what somebody’s going to like when they walk in.” In his downtime, Deselms is passionate about securing public art, especially sculpture, in local parks. “We have a great Greenway and beautiful parks here, and the botanic gardens is a great place to be,” he said. “I’ve always wanted to make Cheyenne an art destination. We’re on two major interstates, as well as halfway between Santa Fe and Jackson, which both have incredible art. e Cheyenne people really appreciate artwork.”

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By Kristine Galloway above Dan Miller’s jewelry Thatcher Lake of Cincinnati, Buffalo Bill led his superbly as a prostitute, she preferred and Sarah Zoellick store, O’Neal stated. Ohio, to James Butler mounted troupe in its cus- to live like a man. She dressed Wyoming Tribune Eagle “Hickok occupied himself Hickok, Wild Bill, of this tomary parade, supplement- in buckskins, and took up as a gambler, relying upon his city.” ed by 200 members of the chewing tobacco and drink- Several of the most well- reputation to attract play. He Roberts wrote, “The minis- Cheyenne Fire Department. ing with the best of them. known Wild West characters held forth at the Gold Room, a ter was not convinced that The parade through “Women weren’t typically of the late 1800s passed saloon-theater-dance hall the marriage would go well. Cheyenne ended spectacu- even allowed in the bar, ex- through town during that also boasted gaming He wrote in the Marriage Re- larly, with the cept for at particular mo- Cheyenne’s rough-and-tum- tables,” O’Neal wrote. cord of the First Methodist racing up Ferguson Street ments, like you could come at ble days – some just briefly Jim Bowker wrote in the Church of Cheyenne (a mi- and Cody’s warriors gallop- 4 in the afternoon for tea at kicking up their boots here, book “History of Cheyenne, crofilmed copy of which is in ing in pursuit,” he wrote. the Tivoli or different things others staying a short while. Wyoming Vol. 2” that Jim the collection of the Wyo- Ferguson Street was the like that,” said Visit Allen built the Gold Room at ming State Archives): ‘Don’t former name of Carey Cheyenne Director of 310 W. 16th St. in 1867. He think he meant it.’” Avenue. Operations Jill Pope. “But “Wild Bill” Hickok said it was one of the first two That question remains O’Neal wrote Cody held his () dressed (1837-1876) saloons in Cheyenne. unanswered, as Hickok was show in an open prairie north like a man, and she’d come in He added that a warrant for shot and killed by James of the state Capitol. and shoot off her gun, and James Hickok’s arrest on charges of McCall on Aug. 2 in Saloon An ad reprinted in everybody loved it, so she Butler “Wild vagrancy was issued June 17, No. 10 in Deadwood, South “Cheyenne: A Biography of was kind of accepted as one of Bill” Hickok 1875, in Cheyenne, and a Dakota. the ‘Magic City’ of the Plains” the guys.” became a $200 bond was ordered, but shows that Cody brought his Pope said, “It’s a little hard fixture in Hickok was never arrested Wild West Show back to sometimes to know what’s Cheyenne in and left town by November. “Buffalo Bill” Cody Cheyenne on Saturday, fact and what’s fiction about 1874, accord- He returned to Cheyenne (1846-1917) Aug. 9, 1902, as part of a na- Calamity because she told a ing to Bill in early 1876, however, and tionwide tour before heading lot of tall tales – she just made O’Neal, au- reacquainted himself with William to Europe. stuff up.” thor of “Cheyenne: A Agnes Thatcher Lake, a cir- Frederick Hickok wasn’t the only Calamity Jane came to Biography of the ‘Magic City’ cus manager and performer “Buffalo famous name Cody hosted in Cheyenne in the 1870s. of the Plains, 1867-1903.” By who was several years his Bill” Cody his show. Infamous rough- O’Neal wrote that she was that time, he was already senior. was a friend neck Calamity Jane was a charged with grand larceny well-known as a lawman, An article written by Phil of Hickok’s. good friend of Cody’s and in Cheyenne in 1876, but a and gambler. Roberts, a University of He invited sometimes performed in his jury declared her not guilty O’Neal wrote that Hickok Wyoming professor of his- Hickok to Wild West Show. in June of that year. was 37 when he arrived in tory, and published in the join his Wild O’Neal stated that, while Cheyenne in July 1874 to Feb. 25, 2007, edition of the West Show in 1873, though celebrating the verdict a few serve as a scout for a hunting Wyoming Tribune-Eagle the partnership didn’t last “Calamity Jane” days later, Calamity Jane party. By that time, he’d states Hickok met Lake in long. (1852-1903) rented a horse and buggy served as a county sheriff, 1873 in Rochester, New York. Cody visited Cheyenne on from James Abney with the city marshal and deputy U.S. An announcement pub- many occasions, but one of “Calamity intention of driving to Fort marshal, as well as serving in lished in the Cheyenne Daily the most notable was in 1898, Jane” was D.A. Russell, now known the Civil War and engaging in Leader on March 7, 1876, when he brought his Wild born Martha as F.E. Warren Air Force gunfights across the West. stated, “Married: By the Rev. West Show to the second Jane Cannary Base. Hickok returned to W.F. Warren, March 5, 1876, Cheyenne Frontier Days. on May 2, An article published in the Cheyenne that September at the residence of S.L. According to O’Neal, CFD 1852. Though June 20, 1876, edition of the and stayed for several Moyer, Cheyenne, Wyoming took place Sept. 5-6 that year. she some- Cheyenne Daily Leader said, months, renting a room Territory, Mrs. Agnes “On a chilly Monday, Sept. 5, times worked “By the time she had reached FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 29 the fort, however, indulgence in fre- fighting editor.” O’Neal wrote the only spent about five weeks here headed west in 1873 seeking a dry quent and liberal potations complete- city editor denied being the editor before his winning streak ended, climate that might extend his life. ly befogged her not very clear brain, and left to find “the fighting editor.” sending him back to Dodge City, “Holliday had a mean disposition and she drove right by that place.” According to O’Neal, that was the Kansas, where he was elected sheriff. and an ungovernable temper, and The article reported that she con- last time Calamity Jane caused trou- under the influence of liquor was a tinued drinking throughout the night ble in Cheyenne. most dangerous man,” Masterson and awoke the following morning, reportedly said, according to O’Neal. June 11, and believed Fort Russell (1851-1887) “He was hot-headed and impetuous, had been moved. It further stated and very much given to both drinking that she then drove to Fort Laramie in (1853-1921) “Doc” and quarrelling, and among men who a continued search for Fort Russell. Holliday, another did not fear him, he was very much O’Neal wrote that Calamity Jane Not long after Wild famous figure from disliked.” returned to Cheyenne in July and Bill left Cheyenne, the Old West, lived in O’Neal wrote that Holliday did not tried to hire a rig at Terry and Bartholemew Cheyenne briefly yet have a dangerous reputation like Hunter’s Livery Stable, but was William Barclay during the Masterson and Hickok during his turned down, likely because she “Bat” Masterson, period, and probably stay in Cheyenne. hadn’t returned Abney’s buggy. another famous gam- around 1876 or 1877 Like Masterson, Holliday is said to Calamity Jane reportedly then bler-gunfighter, as well. have been close friends with legend- visited the office of the Cheyenne rolled into Cheyenne A dentist by trade, Holliday devel- ary lawman . According Daily Leader to protest the article by train in 1876 or oped an affinity for gambling and to the website www.biography.com, written about her. 1877. spent several months in Cheyenne Holliday and Earp were two of the According to O’Neal, “The city At just 22 years old, Masterson working as a house dealer at a local most famous people involved in the editor looked up to see a scowling already had a reputation for being a theater before moving on to other 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the woman, ‘clad in a cavalry uniform, fighting man, O’Neal wrote. places, like Deadwood and Denver. then-, which is with a bull-whip in her hand, a leer in Masterson reportedly took more of O’Neal wrote that Holliday, a regarded as the most legendary bat- her eye and gin in her breath.’” a liking to the gambling tables in Georgia native, contracted tubercu- tle of the American Wild West. That He states that she cracked her whip Cheyenne than he did panning for losis about the time he completed shootout solidified Holliday’s leg- on the ceiling and asked to see “the gold in Deadwood. He is said to have dental training. He is said to have endary status. H O M E COLDWELL BANKER THE PROPERTY EXCHANGE IS CHEYENNE TESTED, NATIONALLY APPROVED. Known first as ERA The Property Exchange, the company was a modest operation employing 17 hardworking agents during an economic recession following Wyoming’s oil bust in the early 1980s. As the company grew it became The Property Exchange in 1995 and relocated offices a few times. Now located at 255 Storey Blvd., The Property Exchange joined Coldwell Banker in 2011 and is now one of the leading real estate com- Former TPE office at 4020 House Ave, Circa 1992 panies in Cheyenne. It is home to more than 70 professionals and is on track to match its best financial year. 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ACCUSED OF KILLING TEEN have been framed for the slaying. A mock retrial that took place in WILLIE NICKELL, HORN’S Cheyenne in 1993 ended in a not- SENSATIONAL TRIAL IS guilty verdict. REGARDED AS MARKING Horn’s real trial took place at the original courthouse in Cheyenne, THE END OF LAWLESSNESS built in 1873 at the corner of 19th IN WILD CHEYENNE. Street and what’s now Pioneer Ave- nue. That building was razed in Ranch hand. Cowboy. Indian 1917 and replaced with what’s still interpreter. Army scout. Range there today, known now as the his- detective. Hired gunman hanged toric courthouse. A modern govern- for murder. ment complex was added to the Anyone well-versed in Western structure in 1995. history, and especially Cheyenne He managed history, likely knows of the notori- to escape from “Killing is my ous Tom Horn, who worked for jail several specialty. I wealthy cattle barons. months after his “In the cowboy land, he’s pretty trial and en- look at it as a well known,” Jill Pope, the director joyed a short- business of operations for Visit Cheyenne, lived bout of said. freedom before proposition, being captured. “He was probably not guilty of the and I think I murder he was hung for. However, The stunt is said he certainly was responsible for a to have jeopar- have a corner dized any lot of deaths,” Pope continued. “He on the was hired by the stockmen to make chance he might sure people were not stealing cattle have had at a market.” and he would actually, you know, stay of execu- Tom Horn kill them if they were stealing cat- tion and release. tle, if he gave them a warning and Friends of they didn’t heed it. So he wasn’t a Horn, famous cowboy/rodeo champion Charles Burton “C.B.” good egg.” or “Charlie” Irwin and his brother, Born a farm boy in Missouri, Frank Irwin, sang “Life’s Railway Horn reportedly headed west as a to Heaven” before Horn was young teen after taking a beating hanged Nov. 20, 1903, at a gallows from his father and became a near the courthouse, reportedly at wanderer with an appetite for Tom Horn braiding rope around 1902 or 1903. Wyoming State Archives Horn’s request. adventure. Willie Nickell is buried in Chey- Horn was tried in the court of tain area. Many thought Nickell’s ty U.S. marshal pried a drunken enne’s Lakeview Cemetery. Horn’s public opinion long before heading father, Kels Nickell, might have confession out of Horn in his sec- brother arranged for his body to be to the courthouse, and a jury of 12 been the intended target, but the ond-floor office in downtown taken to a cemetery near Boulder, men found him guilty of first-de- teen happened to be wearing his Cheyenne – the bay window above Colorado. gree murder after a two-week-long, dad’s hat and coat. Among many what’s now the Wyoming Home Actor Steve McQueen played well-attended trial held in Chey- other disagreements, Kels Nickell store that still overlooks West Horn in the 1980 film “Tom Horn” enne in October 1902. More than had angered the influential cattle Lincolnway. A court stenographer and married actress Ali McGraw in 100 years later, though, people con- barons by introducing sheep to his hiding in the adjoining office re- Holliday Park in 1973. tinue to debate whether Horn actu- range. portedly recorded Horn’s supposed Many regard Horn’s sensational ally killed 14-year-old Willie Horn’s trademark – reportedly so admission. trial, which attracted national at- Nickell. he could get paid – was to place a According to Pope, Horn’s influ- tention, as marking the end of vio- Someone shot and killed Nickell small rock under his victim’s head, ential cattle baron friends spent lence and lawlessness in Cheyenne. in July 1901, not far from his fami- and that’s exactly how Willie Nick- $100,000 on his defense, and people ly’s homestead in the Iron Moun- ell was found. Additionally, a depu- still believe to this day that he might – Sarah Zoellick, Wyoming Tribune Eagle PAGE 32 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 HISTORY IN HEADSTONES LAKEVIEW CEMETERY

By Sarah Zoellick killing 14-year-old Willie Nickell in Wyoming Tribune Eagle 1901 near his homestead in the Iron Mountain area. Nickell is buried in Nestled just northeast of downtown Lakeview, with a plaque fixed to his Cheyenne is the peaceful, still-opera- headstone that reads: “Tom Horn tional historic Lakeview Cemetery. hanged for this murder.” It’s a place where headstones etched The modern boundaries of the with pizza and a video game control- cemetery are Seymour Avenue, 23rd ler stand among crumbling markers Street, Russell Avenue, 25th Street, from the 1800s and large family plots Morrie Avenue and Pershing featuring some of the state’s most Boulevard. Wright said old photo- prominent politicians, ranchers and graphs suggest the wrought iron cattle barons. fence along Seymour Avenue likely “You can have new and old right was at one time around the Capitol next to each other,” City Cemetery grounds before getting repurposed. Director Mark Wright said. Wright enjoys pointing out some of While burial permit No. 1 was is- the more quirky headstones, such as sued May 21, 1875, the city didn’t one for a “Girl with the third eye” – officially adopt the name Lakeview “I’ve got no idea what that means, but for the cemetery until 1932. Before it’s engraved on her headstone,” he then, the cemetery was formally said – and that of Annie Davidson known as City Cemetery. A large stone marks the grave of rider John “Portuguese” Phillips, (1868-1936), supposedly the “first Prior to City Cemetery being estab- known for his 236-mile ride in a blizzard from Fort Phil Kearny in northern Wyo- white girl born in Cheyenne.” lished, the Union Pacific Railroad ming to Fort Laramie to deliver news of 80 soldiers being killed by Indians. Near her grave, which is by the surveyed, plotted and created the Photos by Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune Eagle cemetery office at 2501 Seymour first cemetery in Cheyenne near Ave., stands the cemetery’s original what is now the entrance to F.E. the cemetery. Phillips, known for his 236-mile ride holding vault, built to store bodies Warren Air Force Base. Gravestones in the cemetery not in a blizzard from Fort Phil Kearny in during winter. A year after City Cemetery started, only tell the city’s history, but give a northern Wyoming to Fort Laramie “Back in the day, digging by hand, city officials ordered all bodies bur- glimpse of the history of the West. In to deliver news of 80 soldiers being not going to happen,” Wright said. ied outside the City Cemetery to be here are the headstones of some of killed by Indians. “So they would put them in there until relocated at the cost of $10 each. the first men massacred by Indians, Another defining moment in the springtime.” Two-year-old Daniel Cassells is and more famed figures such as Pony Cheyenne history was the trial of The holding vault now features said to be the first recorded burial at Express rider John “Portuguese” Tom Horn, who was convicted of information about the cemetery’s

The grave of Annie Davidson, the “first A dreamcatcher grave marker. Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing’s wife and A Japanese plot was established in white girl born in Cheyenne,” in Chey- three young daughters died in a fire in San Lakeview Cemetery in 1924. enne’s Lakeview Cemetery. Francisco in 1915 and are buried in Chey- enne’s Lakeview Cemetery. FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 33

history, making it a great first lished in 1924. Washington, D.C. stop on the walking tour. Adjacent to the section of Pershing married The tallest obelisk in the Japanese markers is what’s Warren’s daughter, Helen cemetery, also near the hold- known as Potter’s Field, a Frances “Frankie” Warren, ing vault, is the headstone for section of the cemetery set and quickly was promoted to Gov. DeForest Richards, aside for burying the poor. General of the Armies – the who served as Wyoming’s Gov. Nellie highest possible fifth governor from 1899 to Tayloe Ross – the rank in the U.S. 1903 before dying in office first female gover- If you go military, held just four months into his nor in the country only by Pershing second term. He is one of nine – also is buried in Lakeview Cemetery and George former state governors bur- the cemetery, is open year-round Washington. ied at the cemetery. along with her sons to the public for Frankie Pershing self-guided walking killing 14-year-old Willie Nickell in As the walking tour winds and husband. She and their three tours. Tour booklets 1901 near his homestead in the Iron through the cemetery, visi- served as governor young daughters, Mountain area. Nickell is buried in and other informa- tors can view the gravesite of of Wyoming from tion can be picked who were buried Lakeview, with a plaque fixed to his Lucy Phillips, who arrived in 1925 to 1927. at Lakeview next headstone that reads: “Tom Horn up during business Cheyenne in 1867 on the first Sen. Francis E. hours from the to her mother, hanged for this murder.” passenger train at age 62. She Fourteen-year-old Willie Nickell was shot dead in July 1901. Hired Warren, for whom cemetery office at Helen, died in a The modern boundaries of the donated her property at 18th gunman Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne for the crime Nov. 20, F.E. Warren Air 2501 Seymour Ave. fire in San cemetery are Seymour Avenue, 23rd Street and Thomes Avenue, 1903, though some dispute he was guilty. Blaine McCartney/ Force Base is Francisco in 1915. Street, Russell Avenue, 25th Street, where African Methodist Wyoming Tribune Eagle named, and his The couple’s Morrie Avenue and Pershing Church, the first black family are buried at young son, Francis Warren Boulevard. Wright said old photo- church in Wyoming, was The wide variety of names also is a unique section of the Lakeview as well – but not Pershing, survived. graphs suggest the wrought iron built after black members on the various headstones in cemetery with several his son-in-law, Gen. John The Warren plot is marked fence along Seymour Avenue likely left First Methodist Church the cemetery is indicative of Japanese-engraved mark- “Black Jack” Pershing, by F.E. Warren’s large, im- was at one time around the Capitol on Central Avenue to form Cheyenne’s ethnic mix ers. For reasons unknown, who is buried in Arlington posing red granite head- grounds before getting repurposed. their own congregation. through the years, and there the Japanese plot was estab- National Cemetery in stone. Wright enjoys pointing out some of the more quirky headstones, such as one for a “Girl with the third eye” – “I’ve got no idea what that means, but it’s engraved on her headstone,” he said – and that of Annie Davidson (1868-1936), supposedly the “first white girl born in Cheyenne.” Near her grave, which is by the cemetery office at 2501 Seymour Ave., stands the cemetery’s original holding vault, built to store bodies during winter. “Back in the day, digging by hand, not going to happen,” Wright said. “So they would put them in there until the springtime.” The holding vault now features information about the cemetery’s We’ve got more to tell.

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HOW DOES A CITY GO FROM AN EMPTY LANDSCAPE TO Tree City USA ONE WITH A QUARTER-MILLION TREES? AUDACITY

By James Chilton Day in 1882. By that point, Wyoming Tribune Eagle Jenkins was co-owner of a shoe store in town, and with When Gen. Grenville his business partner and Dodge arrived at the site of next-door neighbor, he what would become launched a campaign to raise Cheyenne, he beheld a most- funds to build a park along ly empty landscape – a small four blocks of land given to creek and a handful of trees the city by the Union Pacific in the middle of a vast ex- Railroad. panse of windswept plains. The campaign was suc- In fact, even nine years cessful, and the result was after Cheyenne was estab- the city’s first municipal lished, a woman named park, which was planted on Nennie Steel wrote in her the site where the Wyoming diary that the entire town had Supreme Court now stands at just 12 trees total. Today, 2301 Capitol Ave. The park there are roughly a quarter- remained until the 1930s, million trees that grace the when the city granted it to city’s parks, neighborhoods the state. Several of the origi- and open spaces. nal trees still stand on the But the transformation grounds. wasn’t swift, nor was it pos- “In his memoirs, Jenkins sible without the vision of talked about planting the first several of the city’s earliest tree in Cheyenne in 1878,” citizens. As the city prepares The transformation from a nearly treeless city to one with a quarter-million trees didn’t happen Smith said. “I think he’s brag- to celebrate its 150th anni- quickly – nor would it have been possible without the vision of several of the city’s earliest citizens. ging, but I think he rightfully versary, new visionaries are Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune Eagle is the father of our parks. He stepping forth to renew the pretty much founded Lions push for tree planting in munity, town and city in the “That’s why, if left to its na- Fort D.A. Russell, now Park, and he made it his mis- Cheyenne. region could look at some sort tive environment, you might known as F.E. Warren Air sion to beautify Sloans Lake.” of prior Native American see a few trees growing along Force Base. Ellison agreed that Jenkins habitation. There was no Crow Creek in Cheyenne, but “He was from Wisconsin, planted thousands of trees Unique challenges reason to stop and stay here: that’d be it.” and when he came here, across Cheyenne, including and early adopters There was no natural protec- Smith said it only figures there were very few trees; on the land that would be- tion, no minerals and very that people audacious enough the only place native trees come Lions Park, the crown To understand why little water.” to found Cheyenne where grew was along waterways,” jewel of the city’s parks Cheyenne’s trees are so re- On top of that, Smith said they did would also be willing said Mark Ellison, assistant system. markable, it helps to know Cheyenne’s climate poses its to populate it with trees. And director of Cheyenne Urban “He planted probably how Cheyenne’s founding own issues. Not only is the city that’s exactly what happened, Forestry. “Many of the set- thousands of trees and was differs from so many other located in a semi-arid zone through many decades. tlers who came here brought the major person behind the cities and towns up and down that gets barely 16 inches of Perhaps the single most trees with them, which is why planting of Lions Park – a lot the Front Range. moisture a year, it’s also the important personality in- we have a lot of Midwest tree of the initial planting efforts “We founded a town where fourth-windiest and most volved in Cheyenne’s early species. But most of them along the streets,” Ellison nobody in their right mind hail-prone city in the country. forestry efforts was James planted the cottonwoods that said. “We’ve been doing re- normally would have put a “We probably have one of Floyd Jenkins. He arrived in had been growing along the search ourselves, and I found town,” said Shane Smith, the worst garden climates in Cheyenne in 1876 to work as streams and lakes.” information about the city’s founder and director of the the lower 48 states, and it’s the chief clerk of the commis- It was Jenkins who kicked first tree committee in 1902. Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. not just wind. It’s lack of win- sary at Camp Carlin, a quar- that effort into high gear. His The City Council appointed “Virtually every other com- ter snow cover,” Smith said. termaster depot just south of efforts began ahead of Arbor Jenkins to raise money from FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 35 business owners around gauging the hardiness of a they were probably growing Cheyenne things we shouldn’t be able to town, and you’ll see a lot of huge variety of plants and the most hardy version of that do for a city of our size, but we prominent names in there: cultivating the survivors to apple there.” Botanic Gardens do it anyway.” Carey, Dinneen, Warren.” thrive here. Smith said some of the While the High Plains In fact, it was in 1982 – ex- “These guys were looking plants brought back to the research station played a actly 100 years after Jenkins at roses, at lilacs, at what research station have since critical role in developing launched the first full-scale Trees planted makes a nice shade tree; and tree planting efforts in town become staples, including Cheyenne’s plant life, it’s the they were receiving plants the alfalfa hay grown in – that Cheyenne was formally outside of city, too Cheyenne Botanic Gardens from all over the world be- Wyoming and the wheatgrass designated a “Tree City that has served as the show- Fort D.A. Russell also cause by that point, the USDA that stabilizes the sides of USA” by the Arbor Day room for much of that work. launched its own efforts to had developed a contingent of highways all across the state. Foundation. The designation The Botanic Gardens transplant trees to the area, plant explorers,” Smith said. “The Cheyenne station recognizes the city’s forestry starting in 1885, when the Plant explorers, he said, released plants that wound began its life just three short division and its efforts to War Department ordered the were essentially the botanical up all over the High Plains,” years after the High Plains develop and maintain urban base to be expanded to ac- equivalent of Indiana Jones – Smith said. “It’s hard to drive research station ended its canopy throughout the city. commodate eight infantry rugged scientists who would into a High Plains commu- horticultural mission. It Ellison said in the decades companies. travel the world in search of nity and not find something started as the Cheyenne since then, trees have not “They built these beautiful exotic plants to bring back to that the High Plains station Community Solar been getting the attention red brick structures out there Cheyenne to test. was responsible for.” Greenhouse, eventually they once enjoyed in and also planted thousands of “They’d get off the train, go Located just a few miles expanding to its current Cheyenne. Some of the city’s trees,” Smith said. to the farmers markets, look northwest of Cheyenne prop- location in Lions Park in oldest trees are beginning to As the century wound on, at what fruits and vegetables er, the research station’s 1986, the same year it be- come up against their lifes- Cheyenne also became an people were eating, then mission continued through came a full-fledged division pan, while others are in dan- important contributor to they’d go north and ask, ‘Do 1974 before it switched to of Parks and Recreation. ger of being killed by para- the botanical science of the you still have this apple studying water conservation “You never would expect sites like the emerald ash High Plains with the opening here?’” Smith said. and later grassland research. to see a full-service, fully borer beetle. But despite of the U.S. Department of “Eventually they’d find a While many of the trees and staffed botanic gardens in a those concerns, new trees Agriculture’s Cheyenne place where they didn’t have plants cultivated out there city of this size. So still in our have not been planted to High Plains Horticultural any apples there anymore, at are long since gone, some of DNA, we’re still doing what replace those at risk. Research Station in 1928. which point they’d know to go the hardiest remain to this we shouldn’t do,” Smith said. “We understand we had a “An attorney in town by the back to the second-most day in what is now known as “That’s my theme for tree-planting history when name of George Brimmer northerly station, because the High Plains Arboretum. Cheyenne’s 150th. We do our city was founded, and was a real mover and shaker, we’ve gotten away from that. and he had this idea that what So we want to get that restart- Cheyenne needed to be a ed,” Ellison said. great city was this big ag He’s aiming to do that station,” Smith said. through a new program Smith said the High Plains called “Rooted in Cheyenne,” were effectively the last part which has pulled volunteer of the continental United stakeholders together to States to truly be settled, and launch a grassroots effort at even by the 1920s, there planting a new generation of hadn’t been much work done trees here. to figure out what sorts of “We’ve got a lot of newer plants could thrive in the neighborhoods, too, where cold, windy, semi-arid there weren’t many trees environment. planted,” Ellison said. “So “They found their mission we’re going to try to partner after it was built, in a way. with homeowners to pay for They realized that to settle about half the cost of a tree, the High Plains, we’ve got to and we’ll also plant it for get people to want to live them. Homeowners would be here,” Smith said. “And to do able to apply for up to two that, we’ve got to build com- trees a year, which would be munities that have a similar planted in the public right of look and feel to communities way or adjacent to it on public back east.” property.” Smith said that while two Those interested in learn- other competing ag stations As the century wound on, Cheyenne became an important contributor to the botanical science of the ing more about the program did research primarily on High Plains with the opening of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cheyenne High Plains Horticul- can visit the “Rooted in farming, Cheyenne’s station tural Research Station in 1928. Over the next few years, the area became a lush garden, housing a Cheyenne” Facebook page or was different in that it served variety of plant species where workers tested each for resilience in Cheyenne’s harsh climate. 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By Josh Rhoten | Wyoming Tribune Eagle Want to read more about Cheyenne’s history? These books offer plenty of information about the city’s past:

“CHEYENNE: “F.E. WARREN AIR “CHEYENNE: 1867 TO “THE MAGIC CITY “HAUNTED 1867-1917” FORCE BASE” 1903. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE PLAINS – CHEYENNE” Author: Nancy Weidel Author: Paula Bauman Taylor OF THE ‘MAGIC CITY’ CHEYENNE, Author: Jill Pope OF THE PLAINS” 1867-1967” Published by: Arcadia Published by: Arcadia Published by: Haunted America, Publishing, 2009 Publishing, 2012 Author: Bill O’Neal Author: The Centennial 2013 Historical Committee Part of the Images of America This is another excellent entry Published by: Eakin Press, 2006 Whether you believe in ghosts or series of books, this relatively from the Images of America Published: 1967 not, this book offers some inter- small work is packed with his- series. Once again, the book is Author Bill O’Neal has written more esting stories and perspectives toric photos and short stories full of historic photos of the than a dozen books and hundreds of One of the oldest texts we used about Cheyenne’s past. Of course, from the early years of the city oldest continually active Air articles on the American West on a for our research, this volume it is far from scholarly, but it is up through the half-century Force base in the system. variety of topics. He has also appeared was created to celebrate plenty of fun. mark. as a historian on several TV documen- Cheyenne’s 100th anniversary Photos in this book come once taries on Turner Network Television, in 1967. Authors include J.O. Local author Jill Pope divides the The story of the city is told again from the Wyoming Sate The History Channel and the Discovery Reed, Maurine Carley, William city into sections and spent a almost exclusively through pho- Archives, as well as the current Channel. R. Dubois and Katherine significant amount of time in each tos from the Wyoming State base archives. They tell the story Halverson. talking with residents, employees Archives, with lengthy captions. of the early days of Fort D.A. He visited Cheyenne in 2004 to talk and shop owners about their That means while the depth and Russell through the installation with local historians like William R. Full of detail and featuring personal paranormal experiences. detail can be lacking, it’s a light of the Minuteman missiles in Dubois and Shirley Flynn, among locally sourced photos, this and easy read, especially for short, easy-to-read bursts. others. During that time, he also toured collection is a useful time cap- The stories in the book cover a lot those new to the city’s history. historic locations for himself. Deep sule for consideration. The work of ground, from an old legend The book is still in circulation research through the American covers many aspects of life in about a lingering guest who fell The book is still in circulation through sellers like Amazon.com Heritage Center at the University of Cheyenne, from high-profile out of a fourth-floor window of through sellers like Amazon.com and is also available at the Wyoming, the Wyoming State items like the origins of the Plains Hotel to odd sounds and is also available at the Laramie County Library. Archives and other resources strength- Cheyenne Frontier Days to the and sights at the Atlas Theatre. Laramie County Library. ened the spine of his work from there. weather patterns and notable residents that are sure to catch The book is still in circulation The result is a thick volume that is the eye of curious locals and through sellers like Amazon.com highly detailed with original research amateur historians alike. and is also available at the and copies of primary historic docu- Laramie County Library. A sister ments, and rich with interesting anec- The book is available at the version focusing only on F.E. dotes and asides about the city. Laramie County Library, and a Warren, titled “Haunted Warren few used copies can be found Air Force Base,” is also available. The book is still in circulation through online. sellers like Amazon.com and is also available at the Laramie County Library. PAGE 38 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017

Others celebrating sesquicentennials The city of Cheyenne isn’t the only local entity celebrating 150 years of existence in 2017. Plenty of events planned First United Methodist Church, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, F.E. Warren Air Force Base and the predecessor to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle all had their starts in 1867. to celebrate city’s 150th n By James Chilton First United Methodist Church, Wyoming Tribune Eagle located at 108 E. 18th St., is the oldest congregation of any It’s been four months since denomination in Wyoming, Mayor Marian Orr named a commit- according to Rev. Mark Marston, tee to prepare events related to its senior pastor. Cheyenne’s 150th anniversary cel- ebration this year. On Sept. 29, 1867, the Rev. W.W. But in that short time, the city’s Baldwin preached at what was then city hall, located at present- sesquicentennial steering commit- day Pioneer Avenue and 17th tee has managed to come up with a Street. (A traveling Baptist slew of events to minister preached before Baldwin, mark the occasion, but he was not assigned here.) set to begin July 4 and continue through Methodist Church members first Aug. 18. All of the built a white-frame church in 1870 events have been at the current location. They later funded through built a red sandstone church at the grassroots donation same location in 1892 or 1897. Pearl efforts, with the only n public costs to the city coming in the manpower needed The Daily Leader was the predecessor of today’s Wyoming to see each event through. Former Cheyenne Mayor Bill Nation visits with current Mayor Marian Orr after the Tribune Eagle. The newspaper “Most of our venues are public unveiling of the logo for Cheyenne's sesquicentennial celebration this year during a published its first edition Sept. 19, places … so we’re impacting staff press conference Feb. 8, 2017, at the historic Cheyenne Depot. Orr named Nation as the 1867, less than a month after a time,” said Mona Pearl, the sesqui- honorary chairman of this year’s celebration. Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune Eagle young Cheyenne elected its first centennial committee’s lead coordi- mayor and filled other offices. nator. “But we’ve gotten many busi- become Cheyenne at the point where contest. nesses to donate. Folks have stepped the Union Pacific Railroad crossed Then, on July 14, the Greater Nathan Baker, who was 24 in up in a big way.” the water. As such, the July 4 event Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce 1867, was the newspaper’s first The first event will be a formal will commemorate the day the city will also pay tribute to the milestone editor and owner. He came from Denver and brought his printing kickoff tentatively received its moni- at its Pardners N’ Prosperity press with him. set for 11 a.m. to ker, and will also luncheon at the Cheyenne Depot 4 p.m. July 4 at For more information feature games for Plaza. Baker called his newspaper the David R. Romero children and in- While it’s usually held in Cheyenne Daily Leader, which he South Cheyenne For the latest information on events formation about September, Pearl said the Cheyenne published three times a week. He Community Park. planned to celebrate Cheyenne’s 150th Cheyenne’s firefighters’ annual Freedom 5K is later changed the name to the “It is a beautiful, anniversary, visit www.cheyenne founding, history being pushed up to Aug. 5 this year to 150.org or search “Cheyenne 150th Daily Leader, which eventually safe place to be and heritage. coincide with the week Cheyenne Celebration” on Facebook. was published every day except near the banks of Through the was formally incorporated. But that Sunday. The Leader was the top Crow Creek, and it remainder of is only the first of many events paper in Cheyenne for many years, also offers us an indoor option (if July, Pearl said several local organi- planned for the week of Aug. 5-12. according to Nancy Weidel in her book “Cheyenne 1867-1917.” the weather is bad that day),” Pearl zations will be hosting their own On Aug. 6, the Rev. Rick Veit of St. said. events for the sesquicentennial. Mark’s Episcopal Church is plan- Baker was an unofficial The proximity to Crow Creek is These will include the Cheyenne ning to lead an interfaith gathering cheerleader for Cheyenne, often important, since in 1867, Gen. Police Department’s Neighborhood celebrating “150 years of faith in writing stories that predicted a Grenville Dodge and his survey Night Out on July 11, which will Cheyenne” at 10 a.m. at the wonderful future for the “Magic crew first plotted the site that would feature an 1867 theme and costume Cheyenne Civic Center. City of the Plains.” FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 39

Others celebrating “He’s working on rounding up 110 party will take place at the Cheyenne Cheyenne Botanic Gardens Grand churches, synagogues and other Depot Plaza, with live music by the Conservatory. sesquicentennials faith traditions to take part in the Bob Matthews Band and the Josh For those looking for a more casual gathering,” Pearl said. Gonzales Band. The event will also atmosphere that evening, the United Baker sold the Leader shortly Then, at 7 p.m. Aug. 7, Mayor Orr feature food and beverages, enough Way of Laramie County’s Emerging after a fire in 1870 destroyed his will take part in a roundtable discus- birthday cake for 6,000 people and a Leaders group is also preparing printing operations. He died in sion with potentially all six living fireworks show. Pearl noted a spe- “Tap into History” pub crawl Denver in 1934. former mayors in an event being cial song to mark the occasion is through Cheyenne’s historic down- Eventually, the newspaper was dubbed “Meet the Mayors.” Pearl being written by local musicians town that Pearl said is being geared sold to Col. E.A. Slack, the editor of said former Mayors Bill Nation, Ty Warner, Todd specifically toward the Cheyenne Daily Sun. Slack Don Erickson and Jack Spiker Dereemer and Amy millennials. combined the newspapers and have all been confirmed, while ef- Smith, who will perform “This working “We want to walk created the Cheyenne Daily Sun- forts are underway to secure Gary it live at the event. committee, in a people through at Leader in 1895. Shaeffer, Leo Pando and Rick “We’ll rest on least the seven pubs Kaysen. Wednesday, then on very short in old buildings The Cheyenne Daily Sun-Leader The discussion, which will take Thursday, Aug. 10, we’ll amount of time, downtown. They’re led to the Wyoming State Tribune place in the Atlas Theatre down- be at the Cheyenne Civic pretty certain there’s in 1921. town, will touch on memories of each Center for history has come up with going to be a special The Wyoming State Tribune mayor’s time night,” Pearl said. “This an absolutely Cheyenne 150 brew and The Wyoming Eagle in office, how will be another pivot competition, with a operations merged, but the they attempt- point for the week. What amazing schedule winner chosen from newspapers had separate staffs ed to work for we envision is having of events that the event,” she said. until the 1990s. Today, the the city’s the lobby of the Civic Finally, on Aug. 18, Wyoming Tribune Eagle continues benefit and Center full of artifacts will really serve the Cheyenne Arts to cover Cheyenne and the what their and displays. We’re as the backbone Festival kicks off its surrounding area seven days a hopes are for Cheyenne’s future. going to use both three-day event at the week, both in print and online at “There’s limited seating of just ‘lobbies’ upstairs and for an entire year Cheyenne Depot WyomingNews.com. 250 seats, so the committee is mak- downstairs.” Museum, including of celebration.” n ing sure it is recorded and can be That event, dubbed announcement of the re-shown,” Pearl said. “History Comes Alive,” Cheyenne Mayor Mayor’s Arts Awards. In 1867, Union Pacific Railroad “We’re also going to attempt to will run from 4-9:30 p.m., Marian Orr For her part, Orr officials pitched a huge tent in livestream it, and we want to make and will also include a said she’s impressed Cheyenne that served as a sure all the living current and for- drop-in, drop-out speak- with what the steering hospital. Doctors treated mer City Council members are in- er series in the main auditorium. committee has been able to come up employees who were injured while vited as well.” Members of the public will also be with. working on the Transcontinental Aug. 8 marks Cheyenne’s formal encouraged to share their own knowl- “This working committee, in a Railroad. sesquicentennial – the day when, 150 edge and stories of Cheyenne’s his- very short amount of time, has come years earlier, the city was officially The city of Cheyenne bought the tory, which will be recorded for pos- up with an absolutely amazing tent the next year for $125. incorporated. Pearl said her com- terity, so that everyone who attends schedule of events that will really mittee has two big events planned can come away with some new tidbit serve as the backbone for an entire In 1883, St. John’s Hospital was for that day. of information. year of celebration,” Orr said. built for $21,000 on land donated The first will take place at noon in The celebration picks up again on “Things like this do take time, and by Union Pacific. Memorial Romero Park, where Mayor Orr and Aug. 12, beginning with the annual sometimes having a deadline in Hospital replaced it in 1922. After the City Council will dedicate a time Pink Ribbon Run which, while not front of you such that we were given changes in ownership and a capsule marking the occasion. That directly affiliated with the sesqui- helps you work harder, faster and merger with DePaul Hospital, the will then be buried with instructions centennial committee, is expected to smarter.” name was changed to Cheyenne for it to be reopened in 2067. “tip its hat” to the milestone, Pearl As for the events themselves, Regional Medical Center in The 2017 capsule will be installed said. Aug. 12 will also feature an Orr said they “really run the gamut 2006. within a monument in Constitution antique car show from 9 a.m. to as far as interest and entertainment. n Park, but it won’t be sealed until 2 p.m. – details pending – as well as a We’ve also been hearing from com- later in 2017 because the committee “friends and family” celebration munity members about events they The evolution of these institutions wants to include all relevant news from 2-5 p.m. at Lions Park. have and how they can tie in with the is a testament that Cheyenne is a and events that happen for Pearl said the latter event is in- overall events calendar.” place where many people stayed Cheyenne this year. tended to be family friendly, featur- Pearl expects plenty of other inde- and built their futures. Items selected for the new time ing fun and games for children of all pendent celebrations will be put on capsule will come from suggestions ages, as well as food and drink. by other groups in town this year. These institutions and the people of Cheyenne have contributed to made by Cheyenne’s youth, and the At 6:30 p.m., the formalwear will She said anyone working on an event the fabric of the community event will also feature games and come out for the Gala in the Gardens, can send an email to cheyenne150@ through the years. It’s expected history displays. a tickets-only event that will be the cheyennecity.org for inclusion on they will continue to do so for the Then, from 4:30-10 p.m., a massive first such event put on at the new the calendar. next 150 years or more. PAGE 40 Cheyenne at 150 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Past, present and future At 92, former Mayor Bill Nation is in a unique position to reflect on where Cheyenne has been – and where it’s going

By James Chilton “When I was in the (state) Legisla- Wyoming Tribune Eagle ture, I suggested a 1 cent sales tax statewide so cities and towns could As Cheyenne’s oldest living for- fund some of the things our constitu- mer mayor, Bill Nation, 92, has a ents wanted to do,” he said. The mea- unique vantage point on where the sure, he said, faced some resistance, city has come from and where it’s and ultimately it was finalized going. through a conference committee, And that’s not just because the which passed it as a local option in- Capital City’s eldest of statesmen stead of a statewide mandate. happens to enjoy a gorgeous pan- “To this day, most of the cities and oramic view of the city from his towns did not hold their election to home on North College Drive. Rath- get their penny,” Nation said. “But er, Nation has been able to see how here, it brings in some extra money his own decisions as mayor – first the city and county governments from 1962-1966, and again from need desperately.” 1973-1977 – have helped to shape the But Nation noted it was the efforts city into what it is today. and ideas of those who came after “It’s amazing to me the recogni- This “then and now” combination of photos shows former Cheyenne Mayor Bill Na- him that allowed the sixth penny to tion that a mayor gets, whether it’s tion, who at age 92 has a unique vantage point on where the city has come from and see its full potential, and he believes Cheyenne or Chugwater or New where it’s going. Courtesy Cheyenne has been blessed to have York City. Here, the mayor stands capable leadership at the helm in the pretty much alone in the political hi- “But I told him we didn’t know uses today. And while his terms in decades since he left office. erarchy because generally they are how to move a locomotive. He told office just missed Cheyenne’s cen- “The growth and prosperity of not partisan, and that helps a great me, ‘You tell me where you want it, tennial in 1967, Nation has had the 50 Cheyenne is directly related to the deal in Wyoming,” Nation said in a and we will put it years since then to vision of the people they elect to the recent interview. “And I have found there.’ see how the deci- City Council and the mayor’s office, that in order to get things done for “Since that time Want to hear more? sions he and his and we have been fortunate through Cheyenne, I could use that special 54 years ago, thou- What: Mayor Marian Orr will take successors made the years in electing people who are designation.” sands and thou- part in a roundtable discussion titled have paved the interested in a better life for people In his time, Nation said that could sands of people “Meet the Mayors” with Cheyenne’s way for Chey- who live in Cheyenne,” Nation said. be as simple as picking up the phone have come into past living mayors. Confirmed attend- enne’s future. “A great deal of our citizens are re- and calling the chairman of the town to see that ees include former mayors Bill Nation, One easy exam- tired Air Force people who have had Union Pacific Railroad to inquire steam engine,” Na- Don Erickson and Jack Spiker, while ple Nation can the opportunity to visit the world and about what would become of the Old tion added. “That’s mayors Rick Kaysen, Gary Shaeffer point to today is the wound up selecting Cheyenne for Number 4004 Big Boy steam engine, the way mayors and Leo Pando have also been invited. value the voter-ap- their retirement, and that bodes well which was formally retired from can get things When: 7 p.m. Aug. 7 proved sixth-pen- for the future growth of the city.” service in 1962. One of only eight done.” ny sales tax has As for what that future may look surviving 4-8-8-4 Big Boy engines in Nation occupies Where: The Atlas Theatre, 211 W. provided to the city like, both the former mayor and the the world, the engine was brought to an unusual place in Lincolnway and surrounding office’s current occupant, Marian Cheyenne’s Holliday Park in June Cheyenne’s histo- Cost: Free; seating is limited to 250. county, through Orr, said Cheyenne’s industries of 1963 at Nation’s insistence and re- ry, being one of the projects such as tomorrow will be strongly tied to the mains there to this day. last mayors to op- For more information: Visit the Cheyenne Bo- city’s location. But where the city’s “I told the chairman I wanted to erate under the http://tinyurl.com/meetmayors tanic Gardens’ success have been based on its posi- get that largest steam engine in the city’s former city new conservatory, tion as a railroad hub at the cross- world in Cheyenne, and when I ex- commission form of government, the Laramie County Library head- roads of two major interstate plained what I wanted, he said that’d and the first to take the reins under quarters and the ever-expanding highways, tomorrow’s industry be a good place for it,” Nation said. the “strong mayor” system the city Greater Cheyenne Greenway. may draw on Cheyenne’s cool, dry FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 Cheyenne at 150 PAGE 41

climate, which makes it per- evolve from the “candle- fect for high technology. stick” telephones of the That’s already proven true 1920s to the miniature su- with Cheyenne’s growing percomputers we carry in prominence as a hub for data our pockets. centers, which has brought “If we have leaders who hundreds of millions of dol- continue to keep their eyes lars of investment to the re- open for opportunities and gion. But as plans solidify to have some vision for the fu- improve Cheyenne’s West ture of Cheyenne, then I Edge district and bring more would say as the oil and gas and greater high-speed con- industry diminishes, other nectivity to the area, Orr new industries will devel- sees the potential for a great- op,” Nation said. er grassroots tech presence “Certainly Marian is cor- as well. rect in saying technology is “I think that anymore, the the one thing we know will days of really large manu- explode. We have all these facturing, big-box kind of advancements in technology employee centers are going and communication, and away to smaller, more effi- An exterior view of the NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center east of Cheyenne. Cheyenne’s grow- Cheyenne is a great pace cient and yet equally global ing prominence as a hub for data centers has brought hundreds of millions of dollars of investments weather-wise for electronics economies,” Orr said. “As a to the region. WTE/staff of any sort, so there’s no society, we’ve become so questions those companies high-tech, yet there’s that that we seem to have lost in vices are a prime example of Nation agrees, marveling in that business will be inter- need for the personal feeling the 1990s and 2000s. I be- how we crave that personal at how his own time on Earth ested in Cheyenne as years of a one-on-one relationship lieve boutique firms and ser- experience.” has seen communications pass.”

Happy 150th Anniversary Cheyenne!

CELEBRATING 150 YEARS AT THE WYOMING TRIBUNE EAGLE!

In addition to the city’s sesquicentennial, this year marks 150 years of newspaper Past,publishing Present in the Capital City. & The Future: Daily Leader was We’refirst published here on Sept. for 19, 1867,you! about a month after the new town called Cheyenne elected its first mayor. Through the years, the Daily Sun, the Wyoming Tribune, the Cheyenne Daily Sun- Leader, the Wyoming State Tribune and the Wyoming Eagle have provided SINCE 1919 award-winning coverage of Laramie County. That tradition continues today as the Wyoming Tribune Eagle provides local news coverage, advertising, commercial printing and digital marketing services from its location on the west edge of downtown. Since 1919, we’ve focused on providing the best customer service around. We do that by investing time in really getting to know each of our customers. Happy 150th Birthday, Cheyenne! Stop by anytime; we’d love to get to know you! MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER WWW.W YOMINGB ANK.BANK 702 W. Lincolnway | Cheyenne | (307) 633.3110 PIXELINK www.wyomingnews.com digital solutions | marketing | design 79 YEARS of premier sevice Tyrrell Chevrolet and Honda Company providing 79 years of premier service in Cheyenne

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“We are always evolving on what we can offer our customers,” he said. “Customer service has been our focus for the last 79 years. We love the people and we love the community.”

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FREE EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES: JULY 4 Kickoff in the Park Romero Park, 1317 Parsley Blvd., 11am - 4pm Celebrate the naming of the city at a ceremony on the banks of the Crow Creek. Mayor Orr will speak about Cheyenne’s founding, history and heritage. Activities for kids of all ages; beverage available for purchase, or bring your own! Annual July 4th fi reworks show that evening at Frontier Park.

AUG 6 Interfaith Gathering AUG 10 History Comes Alive! Celebrating 150 years of faith Historians talk about Cheyenne’s AUG 7 Meet the Mayors rich and diverse history, heritage Happy BirthdaySeven living mayors share their and culture; displays and videos memories and vision at this AUG 12 Family Day Celebration roundtable discussion Classic car show downtown; then AUG 8 Encapsulating Time afternoon of family fun at the park! Time capsule dedication with AUG 12 Gala in the Gardens students, Mayor Orr, City Council; A black-tie evening event (paid) at opening of centennial time capsule; the new Cheyenne Botanic Gardens’ games and displays CheyenneGrand Conservatory AUG 8 150th Party on the Plaza AUG 12 Tap in to History PRESENTING SPONSOR: A birthday party with a huge Downtown pub crawl via the cake, food, live music, and a trolleys; take in historic buildings fi r e w o r k s fi n a l e ! and maybe a specialty craft brew! Complete list of events with details at Cheyenne150.com

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