Big Goose Creek Walking Tour

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Throw Back Thursdays #TBT is a weekly social media post that tells local historical stories, highlights elements from current SCLT historical projects, and/or announces upcoming historical activities.

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2023-12-08T16:44:51-07:00

TBT – Dana Ave. – Tongue River Water Trail

For this #TBT, we continue our journey down the Tongue River Water Trail, checking out SCLT’s recently installed signs which highlight historic events, themes, and figures nearby. Come ashore with us at Dana Avenue to learn about the history of Thorne Rider Park. Thorne-Rider Stadium was established after Count Frederic Thorne-Rider tuned into a [...]

2023-11-30T09:51:26-07:00

TBT – West Works St. – Tongue River Water Trail

For this #TBT, we continue our journey down the Tongue River Water Trail, checking out SCLT’s recently installed signs which highlight historic events, themes, and figures nearby. After some slow meanders around the looping oxbows of Big Goose Creek, we find ourselves at the footbridge on West Works St. Henry Held homesteaded this area [...]

2023-11-30T10:07:21-07:00

TBT – Leopard Street – Tongue River Water Trail

Recently, SCLT installed signs along the Tongue River Water Trail which highlight historic events, themes, and figures nearby. On this #TBT, we launch at our farthest point upstream on Big Goose at Leopard Street. Just three miles west of Sheridan along Big Goose Creek was a farm called K.N. Garden. The owners of the [...]

2024-12-04T11:17:40-07:00

TBT – Wilson P. Hunt and the Astorians Part II

On this #TBT, we time-travel more than 200 years into the past and join the trail of the first large-scale overland expedition to the Pacific by non-Native Americans since the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Wilson Price Hunt (1783 – 1842) was one the earliest pioneers and adventurers in what would eventually become Oregon. Representing [...]

2024-06-04T15:22:52-06:00

TBT – Wilson P. Hunt and the Astorians Part I

On this #TBT, we time-travel more than 200 years into the past and join the trail of the first large-scale overland expedition to the Pacific by non-Native Americans since the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Wilson Price Hunt (1783 – 1842) was one the earliest pioneers and adventurers in what would eventually become Oregon. Representing [...]

2024-03-27T16:20:42-06:00

TBT – Trabing Creek; The Trabing Bros, O. P. Hanna, and the James Gang

On this #TBT, we focus in on a little-known historic connection between the legendary Trabing Brothers freighting empire and Sheridan County. Augustus and Charles Trabing arrived in Laramie in the summer of 1868 as experienced merchants, ranchers, and freighters.  Born in Germany, they had arrived in the US in 1853 when “Gus” was eleven [...]

2024-01-04T16:48:19-07:00

TBT – Padlock Ranch – Tongue River Water Trail

Recently, SCLT installed signs along the Tongue River Water Trail which highlight historic events, themes, and figures nearby. On this #TBT, we pull in our paddles and pause at the Padlock Ranch to learn about cattle drives and the start of ranching history. Routes to move cattle and take advantage of the open range [...]

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