Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1924, Page 24

PAGE EIGHT Che Casper Sunday Cribune SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1924 SOME HISTORICAL AND SCENIC WONDERS OF WYOMING By CHARLES B. STAFFORD, Secretary Casper Chamber of Commerce And while the chieftain prayed for a sign A whirlwind swept the peak And arranged the rocks in strange design To be evermore a healing shrine For the Indian tribes to seek. A circle true wis all criss-crossed through In a manner bound to appeal To a savage raised in wild ways As be prayed to the sign whereon he gazed ‘The magical Medicine Wheel ‘The Indian braves the emblem found And they gather for woe or weal. And the war drums sound by this hallowed ground As with bended backs all dance around The historical Medicine Wheoe!. From the rocks a rustling whisper comes Like the stir of moccasined feet, know Wyoming's his wond They are ive and interesting than 4 in any other state in Visit torical more attrac be fe nion. TEAPOT ROCK s Teapot rock near the ofl field. 35 miles r, from which the d its nam ‘Teapot I north of Cas Teapot Dome deriv Teapot is an mark and is name as appl for the Many been b ome ofl f 1, Its produc tietisy ecg eciit-oyhean Cottpeeed sh Ana the brooding’ silence sometimes many cther Wyoming fields. Its __ hums fant ne the Sait Creek field With the roll of the partridges ~ ay nin supplies fo: muffled drums, Where the war drums once did beat. SHOSHONE CANYON The Shoshone dam, built between - the almost perpendicular walls of the} Shoshone canyon, backs up millions of acre feet of water, which serve the dual puruose of running a hydro-electric plant and furnish- water for 136,000 acres of highly productive irrigable land in the Big Horn. and Shoshone river basins. The Yellowstone highway, may be seen at the base of the right wall es in constde inent £ be th sht oll world, and can produ daily under p ent conditions, against 4,000 barre! upot. If pot were U undis d, the oil in n Wyor would not mis rely of p: “The Sentinels’—A portion of Hell's Half Acre. built of stone about three feet high and fnom this radiates ‘twenty- wa, ) tinued dev t. Ita] even lines of stone, forming the | ulted by un spokes. ‘The outer circle or rim,| Winding upward and upward on unfair tax bur is, at seven difféfent places, marked | W8¥ from Fee bard vsqe'e ~ ae Al ps more oil by rail by stone structures, erected on the | trance of Yell iow e aghd ae than any city in'the world rim, except the one on the south | Scenic stretch of highway is rivaled hg Se 2 ach Cosette ca I HALF ACRE, which is built several feet beyond | fF beauty by the Wind River Can- The Majestic Tetons—“The North American Alps.” Elk gather by the thousands in their winter prese: This of ec but connected to the whole by an|¥0n rad on the Yellowstone high: |in the shadow of the Tetons. elongated ‘spoke." The eastern rim structure ¢iffers from . the others in construction, and is nearly which is the traveler 45 mile e county, Wyoming, on the Ye Dubois across country to Yellow- stone park, The Lander Transpor- tation company will conduct a mo- | square and unlike the s ; s Bes Matin fatten ran oe ae tor bus transportation line from ne highway, a tract peculiar in | higher while the opening faces = i tal na 1 and picturesat | out instead of in. On the project: | Lander over the scenic mountain highway through the Brooks and resembling unt bow! ing slabs of this structuie rests a In: theteasth! oaveylni lagieos perfectly bleached buffalo sku" | Juckagn sake, Two-tiwa, Tee - pass mately 320 acres, which from its which has been s0 placed that 1 anc Teton Mountain country, dure ing this season. INDEPENDENCE ROCK. A mass of black granite rising out of “the plains, about miles southweat from Casper, which was the halfway station or resting place great depth, th and pinnac caryir its looks into the rising sun. Witbin ti central structure which resmbjes there is a slichtly circular depression in the ground While the existence of the Med cine Wheel is of course known to 1 we al contrasting ¢ of the hanced of the sembles the Grand Canyo Nowstone. It been’, dedicated the Crow Indians, and was undoubt : 4 the federal government to Na edly erected either by their for for the waxda' traltia ‘on ithe Old dnit) connhty? for naric’ purpobes. bears or an earlier tribe, none know ren po See ; Missouri to the Oregon country. It is probably the most interesting landmark on the whole of the old Ofegon Trait. It was here that the Oregon travelers stopped to rest and refresh themselves. lt was here that they found pure fresh water and an abundance of feed for their stock. ace was visited by a de- tachment of Captain B. E. Bon neville's party in July 1 and was name¢. by them the “Burning Moun tain,” as it was at that time emit ting sulphurous fumes and gases from burning bituminous deposits, nis of its origin, excepting that it was | made by “peop'e that hac. no ir Several years ago a trip. to the Medicine Wheel was made by oDe- tor Long of Sheridan, Wyoming, guing‘up through the main canyon of the Little Big Horn. He says Captain Bonneville, an army cap Sr 4 Captain /BennavElhy an cetiny, kb in writing of the trip that the. his- It was here that they cared for their sation from the army to conduct a Md Ale amd, DS ee ee jek and bnried their dead. Many ee ° era emigru % party of fur trappers and hunters READY ri aes. 2 graves of emigrants are even now Indians of today frankly acknow- ledge their ignorance of ejther its history or meaning. One Crow Chief said, “If was built before the for the United States. From the light came,” meaning it was ‘pre- ; very first, emigrants mace Inde- historic, white another claimed. it Fourt Glaciers—Twenty-five square miles of ice. pendence Rock their campaing place and the custom of inscribing on jt their names caused Father De- Smet to rall it “the great register discernable, which bear mute testi- mony to the toll of death resulting from the saving of a vast territory through what is now Wyoming gulded the first wagon frain from r the Missouri river up the Valley of the “Platte,” then called the Teapot Ku braska,”" and on into the Green| Its name. River country, which was then a hunter's and trapper's paradise but |rhemselves to grind to f for the Indians. During the season of 1 fakes and|ite shaped Ike the Washington atems Monument stands out on a base Old Mother Earth, her bosom rent. | half way. u! "THE FOURT GLACIERS. The largest live giaciers in United zm beth Binnis Mereland, of Californ| the: wall and irises toa) States, surround Gannet, Helen and | of the desert.” : Youred the state of Wyoming and ‘ height of 750 feet above the base. Chimney Peaks in tho Wind River] Robert Stuart and his party pass- wrote the following poem: A feeling somehow quite unca rend The formation is c ped b bad ie D * ms range of the Rocky mountains. ef by the Rock in November 1812, Hell's Half Acre. Creeps 0’ you as you stan and | x inx-like head so exact in its pro- ‘3 ‘ fe ¥ rer “ These glaciers are located in Fre-| Nathaniel Wyeth was there in May, srhint “Doerat LAIR tte eae eke 4 portions that it has the appearance ment county, Wyoming, ané can be | 1832, Captain Bonneville’s party was Fobeshad La satal mate AiG aes stage tiageet) peintageled many | of having been chisted by a master : reached by pack train from Lander, | there in July 1832; Rey. Samuel orsessed 001 ie anc your thoughts all in al, ss cle: rast! 2 % rn 1 4 ; active; 4 . fe eget co 8523 Maes vans cay oes : aia See Se ‘ Wyoming. The trip is not difficwt| Parker was there in 1835, Dr. Mar. tombs with soldiers standing guard He well knew how, were he for anyone who can ride horseback. | cus Whitman and his bride and Rev. maker, : me Pray ‘do ‘not’ ‘miss it-for dts beauty | ee nt THiBne Fiyal those) of There is a variety of scenery, lakes | 1H, H. Spalding and his bride were To make its weirdness quite attrac-| Will stay with ny a day | De2Pian fame: were their history canyops, streams, waterfalls, and a} there in 1836. These were the first tive : “| [Worsake a little work and dete) | known, all look down upon the wall of ice five hundred feet’ in| white .wome nthat crossed the To Yearn a bit from. gnome and fay.| Tver in’ highway as they have height, clear and streaked with blue | Rocky mountains and were the first Those gray-green slopes invité your ve abeth Binnis Morel looked! down. toriasons if itis, “un and green metalic tints, The water, | white women to cross the American sliding rang Z Be Kase ig the walls are so high as it leaves the snout of the glacier, | continent by wagon. Father De- Down to see what's that queer THE WIND RIVER CANYON | and’ precipitous that none have is not unlike that which is. dis-| Smet was there in 1840, John’ C. shi The Wind River Canyon h ed explore them. charged from the battery of a stamp | Fremont and Kit Carson in 1842. ‘That ms to be a gnome. wriding |! one of the most beautiful sights mall waterfalls and springs mill; the stream passes under a nat- Thousands of naz 1 runs through] spouting water so puré and’ clear Typot "a larittaosolide faakeo. of the west. The r t ural bridge and from the top cf this | and dates are chi , a. most wonderf; yon of the|that it may'safely be used in a bridge one sees th) water, blue and| sive rock. some of them dating as hero's no lake there, the ater | Rocky Mountains, w the almost | storage battery, add to the many in- tea Couppearing throuzh a deep|far back as 1832. Independence frightened perpendicular alls of the canyon | teresting things to be seen in. this pt, ¥ 7 . box canyon, Cashing over rapids to| Rock is 193 feet high at the north Filed through a gateway deep and| tower 2,000 feet above the level of| great canyon which has only. with- ¥ ‘ s th foot of the mountains. These | end, 167 feet high at the south end, wide, the rivet, which cuts through alin the: last decade been made to £ - : ee ay glacial streams never’ fall and the |1,950 feet in length and 787 fect For fire-fiends roared and glowered | CT@ck in the rim of a natural basin | yield to the tools of man. This ee : arver and hotter the summer the|‘in width. The picture was taken and tightened in which the city of Thermopolis,| highway will be entirely completed % aie : stronger the flow. July 4, 1920 when Wyoming Masons Wheir hold, and°fought on every | Where ome of the most famous| and opened to. travel about April , : The Amoretti Hotel and Camps | colebrated' the 58th anniversary of side. mineral hot springs in the world] 15, 1924. company of Lander, Wyo., will con-| the first meeting of Masons ever located. Medicine Wheel of the Big Horns from tradi % EEL M Medicine Wheel of the Big Horns, Their erection and meaning lost even the iti.ns of the In-| duct saddle horso and pack train| he'd in whet is now the state of Great rocks seem to have been their ORMATIOD INTERESTING. zle Never Solved dians. Built centuries 2S = ad parties throughout this region dur-| Wycming, which convened oti top weapor There are numerous interesting bi creat ag rs era ing the season of 1924, as well.as/of Independence. Rock, July” 4 aha occupation of the United g y their emotions spent formations, a hv saddle trips from Brooks Lake nzar.! 1962 ft of g ure so shrouded in mystery| Was @ shrine for the worship. of » medicine wheels of the Big|the sun, The Medicine Wheel can son Hole country, bordering Yellow- stone Park are holding their own, Way and the Two-Gwo-Tee pass route to the southern entrance of Mountains in Wyoming. | be Teached by highway from Sher-| Yellowstone park, through the fa-] while the moose and deer are said These, discovered In the early part | !dan, Wyoming. mous Jackson Hole. and Teton|to be actually increasing in num- of the present century, have since] The following poem by ‘Roy| Mountain country. bers. been an object of much discussion | Churchill Smith, lends enchantment THE MAJESTIC TETONS— s Antelope on Decrease. and conjecture a3 to their origin|to this mysterious’ shrine: “THE NORTH AMERICAN ALPS”| ‘ye antelope is the most interest- neatly Sr f | THE MEDICINE WHEEL Moose, ef and deer still plenti-| ing of all the game animals in the he American Anthropoligist of 4 ful in vast region, state of Wyoming and in spite of : ant lofty peak of th c March... 1903, .C. 8. Stinma of :the | “hve cory Deak, of) the Big Hora) ise ing! iakehen lant’ orethanbie of pl game laws the specie is Field Columbian Museum gives an ‘2s game states. Here in this virgin wonderland, the “Jackson Hole". slowly diminishing, Ernest ‘Thomp- son Seton, the great ‘naturalist, de- account of the whee's found on the | The wind-swept. slopes reveal fmt of Medicine Mountain of} A relic that centuries does «not! ranked on one side by the Tetons | scribes the antelope as “the only ~ Big Rh Range at an altitude change and on the other by the Wind River] known ruminant that has hollow Was. conducted, te vce eit: , Simms | Nor winc:nor wanderer dis-arrange—| mountains, the ell, the moose, the| horns on a bony core as with.cat il-| The Indian Medicine Wheel. and hunter | In the golden glow ef long ago with the Indians] Did a bronzed old warrier kneel With bare arms raised to the sun- circumference of the wheel set glow, 245 feet. In the center | He prayed the secret of life to know ch corr to the hub of} And°for knowledge bless and’ to a wheel is lar structur heal, IE was- conducted to the spot by ‘ er Tip” a prospector had live deer and the mountain sheep are making their last stand against the onward march of civilization— the greatest foe to wild life. To the real spietsman, Wyoming is the great- est playground in the world, with the protection of the state the great elk herds which range in the Jack- Ue, and also,has them branched and shed each year as the deer. It js a creature of strangely mixed characteristics, for it has the feet of a giraffe. the glands of a goat, the coat of a deer, the horns -of an ox, the eyes of a gazelle and speed of the wind.” Wind River Canyon. On the left of center may be seen the Bur-| lington railroad Jine while on the right of center the Yellowstone high. way is barely visable. | Independence KRock—“The great register of the desert,”