The history of this important place. This is a National Historic landmark. Now when visitors come they can walk the hall, see exhibits and leave this building with this is a feel where this is where history happened. History happened here and that is our motto and we hope people walk away that idea. All weekend, American History tv is featuring mississippis capitol city jackson. Since 1944, it has been the largest city in the state. Cspans local content Vehicles Team repeatedly visited many sites showcasing the citys history. Learn about jackson mississippi all weekend here on history tv. If more of white house have gone overseas, fought for this country, fought for mississippi we fought for alabama. We fought for north carolina. We fought for illinois. We fought for every state in this union. Now were going to stay here and see the things that the mayor have said become a reality. 15 minutes after midnight he got out of car and 40 miles away a sniper fired a single shot. The bullet hi
This is a photograph of wilford woodruff. And his wife. He was a man who had piercing eyes. All the photographs show eyes of a man who seemed to be able to look through people. But he was a very gentle man. In addition to being the fourth president of the church much jesus christ of latterday saints woodruff really because the most important historian for that first concern because he experienced some of the most important events in the churchs history, from its early days in illinois through crossing the plains with Brigham Young to utah, to construction of the famed salt lake temple. And he recorded these events in his journal, often spending tremendous amount of time doing that, and it was this journal, this literary effort on his part that causes us today to be able to plumb deep into these events, because we had someone there who was a witness who recorded his experience in a journal. All weekend long, American History tv is featuring utahs capital be salt lake city, in the northe
Bring ham young remains one of the most influential people in American History because of his vision on what could be built here in the American West. Almost 400 mormon settlements in not only utah but idaho nevada california, arizona. They spread far and wide. They built important infrastructure and he had that vision that brought tens of thousands of people here to the American West to establish these mormon communities and to build a society that was striving to be as christian as they could possibly be. All weekend long American History tv is featuring Salt Lake City, utah. The city saw Significant Growth after the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 connecting the area to the east and the west. Together with our Comcast Cable parter in, cspans local Vehicles Team visited many sites exploring the citys rich history. Learn more about Salt Lake City all weekend long on American History tv. While in Salt Lake City, we visited the site of fort douglas to learn about the mil
We continue with our history of casper. This is American History tv. We are the middle of the salt the placefield, at it was probably first discovered. Right behind me is salt creek. The spring is on both sides of the creek. That is where there was a spring of oil. Oil was coming to the surface. In 1889, a fellow named shannon came out here. He was from a Pennsylvania Oil company and sell is going on and drilled the well three miles north of here. That was the first well in this area. It produced 10 barrels of oil per day. Speculation in this area really when rampant and there was a lot of claims made and leases and that type of thing. So, that was the beginning of the great salt creek oilfield. First started, it was a cattle town. Cattle and sheep ranching was real big. When oil started, that was when it started to grow. There was such an influx of people. You got the instant wealth of the oilfield. Whereas, before that, it was a half dozen ranchers who would come to the general store
Partners to showcase the history of casper, wyoming. To learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit the website. We continue with the history of casper. This is American History tv on cspan3. This is the Natrona County high school annual, our senior year of 1959 when dick and i were classmates. Along with lynn, we were all in the same class together. The first one we will look at is a picture of dick and lynn coming down the stairways at our juniorsenior prom. That happens to be a picture when we were all juniors. This next page is a picture of dick when he was a junior also. Right there. That is dick. That was the group of individuals from our class picked to go to the conference every summer they had at the wyoming state fairgrounds. He was picked for that. Some of the better students, higher grades, boyd state is state is what it was actually called. They had girls state also. Lynn on the next page, that happens to be a picture of lynn when she was getting ready to go down t