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Later we will visit the sheridan library. We begin with the history of the rodeo. There is no place better to be the second week in july. We would just love to invite you all to come to sheridan. What so proudly we hail by the twilights last gleaming. This week is the biggest week and sheridan economically we forget about that because 89 years ago sheraton was dead as a door nail. So some citizens decided we needed to have a rodeo to provide some Economic Opportunity at entertainment and that was the charter that still is so. Were still doing the same thing and we hope the Founding Fathers would be proud of that. The walkie financier family they bought historic pk ranch out west of town for two years they have a big radio out in the fields. It was such a big deal i think there was cars from 23 states. They said if we can do it why cant we do it here. A group of concerned citizens got together and formed a committee and they decided that they were to have a rodeo. They did not do start out on a small scale. They wanted to have a big professional rodeo from the get go. They have their first professional while rodeo. It is eight events different stock events livestock roping. The old cowboy skills. Fought to the modern area. Summary and somewhere they have the bucking horses. It means that where one of the top 30 rodeos in america. That is determined by the amount of prize money that you head for the event. They come from all over the United States. We had people from louisiana and michigan, wisconsin a lot of the rodeo contact contacts students are from wyoming. Last year though in terms of our rodeo we have people registered to watch the rodeo from 49 and the 50 states in america and were to get delaware this year. We had people from all over the United States here. Fortynine and 50. The radio spot the rough stock that we have. It comes from joliet montana. They subtract some of that. Some of the very best in the business. In our job is to provide all of their livestock for rodeos across the country. Weve got 64 courses of ours that we brought. We have 100 have of animals for the steer wrestling in team roping we had 100 have of each of those animals as well. The animals that are involved in the rodeo particularly the ones in the rough a document. Thats what theyre born to do. These are animals that are trained to do that. If you think about it they spend most of their life in a pastor eating hay and they actually work eight seconds a day 20 times a year. And as their job. Gary truthfully the prc a and as particularly. We put Animal Welfare first and foremost. We really believe in the welfare of the animals. These guys are bred to be animal athletes. Its not like a beef animal. They are bred totally different. There bred to be an athlete. As a totally different deal. Their care is totally different. Winning the bovine lottery. Two whatever it is that they need we will get them in their nutrition wise it is specifically for what they are bred to do. They are to do their careers on not one for anything at the end of it. They breed some cows. And then they will die of old age. One thing different about the rodeo is we like to keep a smalltime feel to it. We wanted to be a community. And we dont want to get too big for our britches if you know what i mean. Another thing that makes us unique is our indian races. We started here in 1987. It has become a premier event of the rodeo. They start off the rodeo with us. You would be able to see just how exciting it is. And it brings a lot of people here that may not be that interested. They come to see the indian relay. The Great Partnership with the relay. They decided in 1931 that they wanted to have the indians. They just did. They would walk down from the cheyenne reservation. To be part of the show. And another one was before television. They would have huge night shows. With the campfires and bonfires because they didnt had lights necessarily then. Its always been an integral part of it. In the last 20 years weve really brought it back. It has become a thing of beauty. Everybody wants to get in their seats early and find a great spot to watch. Its pretty spectacular. And i think that is the event that most of the people talked about at our rodeo. There has been many challenges shortly after that first rodeo. They became financially challenged. Now they carry on to next year. That has been a continuous problem throughout the years. They did not have the rodeo for two years. Then in 1944 they started up again. But in a modest manner. It got to the point in 1951 when the radio said do you folks want to have a rodeo or not. They took a poll. We were alive again. And had more of a community support. Over the Decades Community support from sponsors in businessman it absent and floated. Typically we end up around 202000 of over a fourday event. They will be sold out for sure on friday and saturday. Nz and thursday our down a little. But were hoping to have between 20 and 202000 during the course of the week. We are pretty sure it that they will be 5 million in the way of the community. The Economic Impact is pretty good. It is the biggest Economic Advancement in the sheraton wyoming. Started by citizens. There was a lot of trials and tribulations. With the western culture. It has become an ventricle identical part of the community. And nobody can imagine this. With 150 years. Right now we are at the historic sheraton and in downtown sheraton wyoming. A lot of people know that they auditioned the wild west show. It is really connected deeply to the history and culture of the sheraton sheraton and ym weaned as a whole. They are deeply connected to wyoming. They spent a lot of time in different sections of wyoming. They toured not only america but all over europe. He would come to sheraton set up shop and look for authentic performers to be a part of his touring show. They could be doing everything from shooting guns on the lawn to using ropes to any of the other things in the wild west show. It is just up in montana. It would come down as well. You have a very eclectic group of western characters all collected here in sheraton centered on the sheraton in. The exterior specifically. The gorgeous gabled roof and windows. It has been renovated over the last several ownership groups. Each one named for a specific character in Buffalo Bills life what is still here from that is the original 1893 bar. It is one of the most historic in spectacular bars. A lot of people in this country feel like this has significant cachet. As a glimpse of history as it was in the late 19th century there are not many buildings like this in the west that existed for exist for a number of factors. The weather is pretty tough. It wrecks havoc on places like this. It is really a building that touches people deeply especially those that are interested in old west history. That state of the union. Its hundred thousand square miles. We are utterly singular and the part of depending on a pastoral grazing economy is at the margins are so there. It will make a 2 profit margin. He was gonna pay. Just cant do it. It wasnt like delta we have a lot of subsistent living. With the duct tape operation. And we just manage to get along for a long time. We have to beg the financial mercy of others to get Services Like our highways. The university was always there. It didnt have an endowment. The favorite story is what happened in 1969. I heard a story that one day our treasury had gone into the governor pathways office. Governor halfway has long retired from his law practice. He was a great interview. Governor, its the truth. It was 80 is it is a complex story. It didnt really start to be a big thing until 1920 when there was a law passed by congress with the mineral lease act. It made sure that minerals that any oil gas or coal that was on federally owned land came back to the state of origin. In the 1973. And suddenly wyoming shift. The state was crawling with people all kinds of people saying this is the Energy Capital capital of america. How can we exploit it. They get to use the interest of the general fund from the Sovereign Fund which is now about 400 million a year but it hasnt been enough that was a very tough time in wyoming. In the 90s it is a monoculture. And those are good and theyre very good and when theyre very bad there really bad. Weve have some pretty significant bankruptcies to in the last two weeks there is a lot of problems with this. Aside from the fact that this is ganymede a drastic cut. All of the coal miners with their pension plan plan and Health Insurance it pays 45 percent on the property. There has been trouble and problems coming up with the property taxes they owe. They did eventually but that was major. If the coal mining goes bankrupt Campbell County which is the center of it is in really tough shape. Thats why diversity is so ask important to a state like wyoming. On the surface its great. Dont we all want a trust fund. The problem is you can avoid hard questions you dont have to deal with coming deficits because of all of this cash and you have to do with deal with social changes. I had described this as a moat of money all around the legislature that as long as we have the cashier its gonna be difficult for wyoming to move forward. I dont blame people. Why would you do anything else. Why would you bother. We got it made. When it goes away commodities have to be the icing on the cake. During our time in Sheridan Wyoming they visited various literary sites. We will take you inside the former Public Library to hear about the stay in the big corn mounds of wyoming during the summer of 1928. It was there where he hoped to finish a farewell to arms. In the Big Horn Mountains of wyoming. Its about the time that they came to wyoming to finish a farewell to arms and he was here because they have just head their baby patrick. He couldnt finish the book. They took her and patrick. And headed out to wyoming. He was probably very early on in his career he was not well known but this was a farewell to arms and i feel like you need to get it finish and thats why he was here to find some quiet time to finish the book. The reason he ended up coming to big horn was that his friend that they were ambulance drivers in the First World War in italy im not sure how he was invited to come here but he was invited to come to the ranch which was in the big horns. And they could stop here on their way to jackson because ernest was invited to jackson to try to finish his book there. When they got to big horn they just decided to stay. Bill stayed for a couple of weeks and there was so much going on up there that he decided he needed to work somewhere else. Were talking 1928 note airconditioning. Im sure it was very miserable and loud right by the train station. He decided to go to another place there was a bedroom there that was called the hemingway room. I believe he probably was there pretty much by himself and was able to write quite a bit. And then at the very end when he mustve been close to finishing. Thats when pauline came to join him. And patrick stayed in arkansas so it was just ernest and pauline here. We just found that he tried to finish the last paragraph of the book and he rewrote it 29 times. Once he got finished they heard a type writer his finishing touches is he would do his own typing so he must had finished they would just say every day he would get up and type and then he would go fishing. We know he did some work but most of it i think it was done at lower folly. When i first started working in the wyoming room i discovered this book and there was a lot of big horn history. I do the newsletter. I was looking for Something Different and i found this log book. It stated summer 1928. A diary of what went on. And the family they published these. And they would publish these for the guests. Here you have the guest role. I found ernest hemingway. I realize that this was an original photo that we did not know who the woman was it took me a while during the research and thats how we found out that this was later to become it was really the book that started it all. The reason i started this book being a manager of the wyoming room we were having so many researchers come in wanting to constantly look at this photo opening this book putting on the copy machine. It was being used quite extensively it was breaking down the back of the book. We just felt like we needed to archive it i took the idea to my board the Library Board in they approved that i put this book together so anybody that wanted to see it could get it from the research room. They find everything we head in the wyoming room. One patron that was very interested in hemingway. He would come up with questions like have you looked in the post Office Records and sure enough we were able to find an original signature of ernest hemingway. Then i went to other books and so it was really exciting that because of the patrons. I was able to find this all by myself. I was alone at home. And those were the original signature. The compiling of information has really been important because people need to see it for themselves. They need to read the handwriting. They need to have the proof. Sometimes they need two or three different references to prove what their thoughts were. And its so important to our local history. At the foot of the Big Horn Mountains. 7,000 acres in one of the most beautiful countries on earth. Like a cattle ranch. The business is processing grass. Its an agricultural endeavor. And it still is. Maybe not to the extent you still have small branches. But you have a lot of area that has been consolidated under one brand. Its always been important and it still is important. It still significant part of the wyoming. Its not going to go away. Someone has invented a good substitute for hamburger. The idea is that if we get this going we will have to kill any more animals. Good luck with that. I think its here to stay for a while. The city to her is exploring the american story. Joint is the first and third weekends of each month. To watch videos from any of the places that we been. Follow us on twitter and cspan cities. Up next we continue our look at sheraton wyoming. We came to sheraton through british officers that came to this area. They got to this area and brought their love of horses with them. It started in the far east. It ended up in the plains of america. This is the flying age ranch. Part of the polo club. This is probably the premier polo facility in the United States all of about 200 clubs. And its next to the big horn equestrian center. They started here in 1893 and shared in his in the distance here. Currently we have three or four former chairman had ended here. At least eight ranchers that have moved in here in the last eight years. It has promoted the area we had been unlucky in this area to have people that have the ability to build a facility like this and bring good horses into this area. There may be 600 horses out here. In the prime of their life. Of athleticism young, athletic courses standing here best bloodlines in the world. The fun part about it the relationship with horses. The American West is pretty much defined by mans relationship with a horse 200 calvary men rose to their death against a superior force. It has a sign of a romance to it. It is one of the venues its hard to worry about anything with your life when your plane polo. The cspan city to her concludes and looks at sheraton wyoming. Held inside the former Public Library wyoming room. Its here we discover it the story of the native american pageant that was started as a way to compact prejudices against native americans. The crowd just erupted. The first Sheridan Wyoming rodeo queen. We are in the wyoming room. In the former Public Library. It is a local archives of sorts we take in paper paper items. Where the region itself. Basically when it was held in sheridan from 1953 to 1954. It was the brainchild of Howard Sinclair. A writer for the sheridan press. When he was a young man he was adopted by a local tribe and developed a lot of native ways. His understanding of native people was tremendous. He felt that through his experience they did not receive what they would consider equal treatment. There were signs downtown that were saying no indian trade allowed no indians, no dogs. This was prevalent throughout many towns. The process started out when Howard Sinclair have an opportunity to enter her as a rodeo queen contestant. And lucy entered it kind of as a joke. There were a lot of people that did not think she did a chance in winning. What happened in the process was that in previous years they had been selected by a committee and in 1951 that process changed and they went to using what was called on the plaza meter was kind of cheesy but it was from the radio station. It was actually chosen by the crowd. When lucy returned to the radio stage the crowd just erupted because of her handling of the horse her demonstrated that she is very skilled as a writer three different votes demonstrated that they wanted her to be the rodeo queen. She became the first rodeo queen that was native and a huge change in what have happened previously. Here, we have the 12 candidates for rodeo queen and most of them you will see are there with occasions. This really was a pivotable moment because he went from having the field of candidates to having a native woman who is very well known locally and she have applied expectations. We want to remain strong and great. She was obligated to a year in that role. So the press this is from july of 1952 the rodeo addition. Here she is in her regalia and her horse here we have the Rodeo Program from 1952 lucy is on the front with her horse these photos are taken up in the sheridan and mrs. Lucy posey is lucy posey with her native regalia. The gentleman on the left in this photo is Howard Sinclair. It was one of the first invitations for them to apply for the contest there was very specific things they were looking for this was not a beauty competition it was not anything like miss america it was just to show the native girls were as modern as their counterparts. That was the biggest thing. They wanted to show that the native people were just like everyone else there is nothing different about them. When theyre doing the competitions. They would show that they were put into motion. Entered a new realm. It was bringing local tribes in to foster good whale towards goodwill towards native americans and they would show when it meant to be native american and they would basically have a lot of white and native interaction. The crowd it was nine or 10,000. They lived long enough to see that transformation in to help the relationship and native peoples. It takes book tv in American History tv on the road. 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