All right . Learn more about the history of u. S. Automobiles sunday at 6 00 p. M. And then a copy of eastern and 10 00 p. M. Eastern. You are the cspan cities tour is exploring the american story. Our spectrumof cable partners, we travel to sheridan, wyoming. Coming up in the next hour we will hear from local historians and experts. Range andits open cowboy culture, in a moment the history of rodeo in sheridan. Fort minutes we will visit kearny. Sheridanwill visit the county museum to hear about the impact coal mining had on the area. We begin with the history of rodeo. [indiscernible] no other place to be the second week in weekend of july than here in wyoming. We invite you all. Oh, say, can you see, by the dawns early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . I tell you, this week is the biggest week in sheridan economically. Ago sheridan was dead as a doornail. There was nothing going on. Citizens decided we needed to provide someto Economic Opportunity and
The area into the national spotlight. The teapot dome scandal was probably the most significant president ial scandal in American History in the 20th century up until watergate, anyway. It implicated members of the cabinet. It certainly could have implicated president harding, had he lived. It became a rather notorious event, even today as they are preparing to sell off the teapot dome Naval Petroleum reserve. Soon after the turnofthecentury when the u. S. Navy was starting to shift from those very clunky coalburning battleships to oilburning ships, it occurred to various officials in the government that we might run out of oil. What is to happen if suddenly we are in the middle of a war with a fleet that is being powered by ships andfired suddenly we do not have any oil . So, the decision was made by the department of the navy to go out and find on public land some known oil reserves that were still on public land, set them aside from exploration and development, and in essence, save
National world war i commission for making this event possible. Thank you so much for joining us. Youre watching American History tv. 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan three. Follow us on twitter at cspan ourory for information on schedule, upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. All weekend long, American History tv is joining our Charter Cable partners to showcase the history of casper, wyoming. To learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit cspan. O rg localcontent. This American History tv on cspan three. All production led to the rapid growth of casper wyoming. Up until watergate, the teapot dome scandal was the largest in American History. Members of the cabinet were implicated. It could have implicated president harding if he had lived. It became a notorious event, even today as he are preparing to sell off the teapot dome Naval Petroleum reserve. Soon after the turnofthecentury when the u. S. Navy was starting to s
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