Schwan's
Sublette County History Contest
Final Week 6 Clues Page (March 23-March
29, 2016)
(Last
day to enter guesses for this question was noon on Tuesday, March
29, 2016.)
KPIN
Radio ad for Week 6
(1.45MB mp3 audio file)
Because
no one correctly guessed the question for last week, we will
roll the Red Velvet & Cheesecake prize into
this week and ask two history questions. Anyone who won in any
of the earlier weeks can participate in this week's questions and
is eligible to possibly win again.
Week
6 two questions:
1. "What
is the oldest geographic feature place name in Sublette County
still in use today?"
Answer: Green River
2. "What
was the first constructed road in the Upper Green River Valley?"
Answer: Lander Road
Two
Prizes this week!:
Grand
Prize is Dinner for Two - Your choice of Schwan's appetizer, main
course and dessert up to $50 value
The second prize is the Red
Velvet & Cheesecake from last week.
Winner: Lisa
Williams, Cora, Wyoming,
who guessed both answers correctly.
Thank
you to everyone who participated in the contest!
Geographic
feature place names
Daniel
T. Potts, born in 1794, joined the Henry and Ashley expedition
bound for the Rocky Mountains and the Columbia
River in 1822 and served as a scout. He wrote many letters to friends
and family describing his adventures. A number of those letters
survive today. In 1826 he uses the term “Green River” to
describe the Upper Colorado River. Prior to that time accounts
referred to the river as the Spanish
River, Colorado River, and versions of Seeds-ka-dee.
Wilson
Price Hunt – 1811 (http://www.mtmen.org/mtman/html/wphunt/index.html)
• Big Horn
• Wind River
• Spanish River (today called Green River)
• Mad River (today called Snake River)
• Columbia
Robert Stuart – 1812 (Discovery of the Oregon Trail by Philip
Rollins)
• Mad River (today called Snake River)
•
Henry’s River (today called Henry’s Fork)
• Pilot Knobs (today called Teton Range)
•
Hoback’s Fork (today called Hoback River)
• Spanish River (today called Green River)
• Willow Branch (today called Willow Creek)
• Wind River
• Big Horn
William Ashley – 1825 (http://www.mtmen.org/mtman/html/ashintro.html)
• Wind River
• Sweetwater
• Shetkadee (In Wyoming today called Green River)
• Green River (In Utah)
Daniel Potts – July 16, 1826 (http://www.mtmen.org/mtman/html/potts2.html)
•
SeetKadu & Green River
• Sweet Water
• Rocky Mountains
• Yellow Stone
• Wind River
• Lewis River (today called Snake River)
• Bear River
Lander Trail
The Lander Trail (Cut-Off, Road) was built as part of the national
road originally designated the central division of the Fort Kearney,
South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road to improve the transportation
corridors
from
the eastern United States to California and Oregon prior to when
a railroad could be built. The chief engineer was Frederick Lander,
its namesake. The cut-off road was intended to bypass the Mormon
country and expensive toll ferries beyond the Continental Divide
and allow poorer emigrants using ox-driven wagons an alternative
route where they could ford the streams and cross the terrain
in a shorter amount of time than the main Oregon Trail. The road
was constructed in 1858 and opened in 1859. It went
from Burnt Ranch near South Pass to Fort Hall through what would
become the future states of Wyoming and Idaho. A crew of 115
men built 230 miles of new trail in 1858. They moved more than
62,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock—equal to 6,000 modern
dump truck loads—and cleared 34 miles of heavy timber and
willows. Construction cost $40,260, finished ahead of schedule,
and came in under budget. The Lander Road
had good grass, fishing, water and wood, however it was built
late in the emigration period of the western covered wagon migration.
13,000 emigrants used the new road in 1859. The last documented
wagon using the Lander Trail was in the early 1900s. It continued
to be used by people for two-way east/west
traffic into the settlement era of the early 1900s with both
horse-drawn and motorized vehicle traffic. It came into disuse
once better roads with more direct routes were built through
the terrain. The Lander Trail is now a National Historic Trail
which has been marked along its length. There are 95 miles of
the road crossing Sublette County and about 60 miles of it
can still be accessed today through BLM and National Forest lands.
The 104-acre Lander Trail-New Fork River Crossing Historical
Park, acquired in 2010 and opened to the public in 2013. It gives
the public an opportunity to see a location of the emigrant trail
at a major river crossing and campsite.
Related Links:
http://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/lander-trail
http://www.pinedaleonline.com/news/2005/04/LanderCutoffRoadofth.htm
http://www.newforkcrossing.org/
http://thefurtrapper.com/home-page/lander-trail/
http://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/crossing-new-fork-river
|
 |
| Headwaters
of the Green River in the Upper Green River Valley north
of Pinedale. Photo by Pinedale Online. |
One of the few existing photos of
a wagon train in the 1850s, this image made by the artist Albert
Bierstadt in 1859 shows emigrant wagons at the Big Sandy River
on the Lander Trail just 26 miles east of the New Fork crossing.
Photo courtesy Sublette County Historical Society. |
Week
6 Clues
1. The Wyoming Board of Geographic Names operates in Wyoming
under the United States Board of Geographic Names. It is under
the State Engineers Office in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It advises the
USBGN on matters related to geographic names in Wyoming. It is
a service of the Wyoming State Library. The website is: http://wyomingplaces.pbworks.com/w/page/12715180/Wyoming%20Places
Their online database can be searched by county, place and time.
2. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names can be found here: http://geonames.usgs.gov/
3. Judi Myers deserves a lot of credit for her love of history
and years of research about Wyoming. She put a lot of information
on her website online. She has an “On the Map” page
of Sublette County place names here: http://judimyers.pbworks.com/w/page/7089909/Sub%20Co%20Place%20Names
4. An index to the Pinedale Roundup Newspaper of Sublette County,
Wyoming was compiled over a 20-year period by Judi Myers for
the years 1904-1969 & 1980-1999 and by Ann Noble for the
years 1970-1979. Jane Warinner typed the original manuscripts
in four
separate volumes. Early year Roundups are also available on
microfilm and later year issues hard-bound at the local libraries
as well
as at the Wyoming State Archives in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The
searchable Pinedale Roundup online index can be found here: http://www.sublette.com/history/roundup/
5. Wyoming Places is a website created by the Wyoming State Library
that is an online resource of the places and place names of Wyoming.
It can be searched by name or browsed by feature or county. It
can be found here: http://places.wyo.gov/
6. The Wyoming Department of Transportation website can be found
here.
7. A web page entitled “The Evolution of Roads across Southern
Wyoming” by Kris A. White can be found on the University
of Wyoming website here.
8.
First major national road: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/back0103.cfm
Federal Road history: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/history_misc.cfm
First transcontinental highway – Lincoln Highway: https://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/
First annual report of Wyoming Highway Commission 1919: https://books.google.com/books?id=nZXVAAAAMAAJ
9.
For current Sublette County roads see the county map server:
http://www.sublettewyo.com/index.aspx?NID=35
10:
Emigrant trails, wyohistory.org website:
http://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/trails-across-wyoming-oregon-mormon-pioneer-and-california-routes
11. Wildlife, Native Americans, then early fur trappers,
traders and explorers helped to find the pathway routes
through the landscape that would later become the general
routes for
roads. Many early roads followed river corridors because
people traveled using livestock.
12.
Our goal with this contest was two-fold: To acquaint people with
the delicious home delivery food choices offered by Schwan's,
and to have some fun with local history. Please let us know if
you liked the contest, and if you enjoyed it, we might do something
like it again later in the year with more great prizes and more
fun and interesting history questions. Pinedale Schwan's driver
Jean-Francois is around Pinedale each week and can be reached
by calling 307-367-FOOD, or just stop and chat with him when
you see the big yellow Schwan's truck around town. Food orders
can be placed online at www.schwans.com.
If you didn't win in our contest but
would
like to try Schwan's food, we still have catalogs
available
at
Pinedale
Online in Office Outlet and at KPIN Radio
in Pinedale. Dawn with Pinedale Online has samples of some of
Schwan's foods you can try too, just ask (ice cream and desserts)!
Thank
you to everyone for participating!
Email
your answers to myriam.wolcott@schwans.com
or
call Jean-Francois at 307-360-FOOD (3663)
_________________________________________________________
Official
Rules:
1. Eligibility: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
TO ENTER. Contest participants must be residents of Sublette County, Wyoming;
be at least 18 years of age, and a U.S. citizen to win. Limit
one weekly prize per person and household. All past winners are
eligible to enter to win the Grand Prize. There are no substitutions
allowed on prize winnings. No one directly involved in the creation
of the contest or history questions, or their families or household
members, are eligible to win any of the contest prizes.
2. Contest Period: The contest runs for
six weeks, from Wednesday, February 17, 2016 and ending on
Tuesday, March 29, 2016.
3. Sponsors: Schwan’s, Pinedale Online,
KPIN 101.1FM Radio. Contacts for more information are:
Schwan’s Home Service of Rock Springs,
phone: 307-360-FOOD (3663), myriam.wolcott@schwans.com,
213 Industrial Ave,
Rock Springs, WY 82901
Pinedale Online: Dawn Ballou, Editor, 307-360-7689, support@pinedaleonline.com
PO Box 2250, Pinedale, WY 82941
KPIN 101.1FM Radio: Bob Rule, 307-367-2000, kpin@wyoming.com
PO Box 2000, Pinedale, WY 82941
4. To Enter: Each week’s history question will be posted
on Pinedale Online on the Local page and at http://www.pinedaleonline.com/schwans,
as well as announced on KPIN 101.1 FM Radio. To enter a guess to answer the week’s
history question, send an email with your answer to myriam.wolcott@schwans.com or
call 307-360-FOOD (3663) by
Noon
on the Tuesday ending that week’s contest. Include
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and will not be returned. Winners names will be posted on Pinedale Online at
http://www.pinedaleonline.com/schwans/ and announced on KPIN 101.1 FM Radio on
the Wednesday following that week’s question. The next week’s new
history question will also be posted and announced on Wednesday.
5. Prize Drawing: On or about Tuesday evening,
contest administrators will review the entries and determine
which one was the first to coming closest to correctly answering
the question. There will be only one prize awarded to one
winner each week. Winner’s name will be posted on the
Pinedale Online website and announced on KPIN 101.1FM Radio
on the Wednesday ending the week of that contest question.
If the contest sponsor cannot contact the prize winner within
3 days of announcement of the winner, the contest sponsors
may select an alternate winner from the next closest correct
answer entries that can be contacted to claim that week’s
prize. Schwan’s Home Service of Rock Springs reserves
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winner and their decision is final. Prizes will be delivered
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