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earplug
02-09-2016, 17:31
http://www.wyohistory.org/essays/rock-springs-massacre

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cstone
02-09-2016, 17:57
Tragic.

So much tragedy throughout history.

Any particular reason you shared this bit today?
ray1970
02-09-2016, 18:50
If you liked that one you should check out the sand creek massacre.
cstone
02-09-2016, 18:58
Coal mining wars get me thinking about Ludlow or Matewan, WV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_coal_wars

Obviously there is a racial and immigration component to Rock Springs as well.
Irving
02-09-2016, 19:45
If you liked that one you should check out the sand creek massacre.

I'm not sure if I was supposed to laugh at that, but I can't seem to stop.
earplug
02-09-2016, 21:26
Just sharing information.

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ray1970
02-09-2016, 21:44
I'm not sure if I was supposed to laugh at that, but I can't seem to stop.

I'm not sure either. Lol.

My post wasn't any more out of left field than the original post.

His incident was white people killing Chinamen, mine was white people killing Indians. Both of which were actually widely accepted at that point in history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_massacre
earplug
02-09-2016, 23:15
Left field is unarmed.
speedysst
02-11-2016, 13:51
I learned all about the Meeker Massacre after I moved here and then visited Ft. Steele in WY. Just a fascinating bit of history.
Scanker19
02-11-2016, 19:12
I'm not sure either. Lol.

My post wasn't any more out of left field than the original post.

His incident was white people killing Chinamen, mine was white people killing Indians. Both of which were actually widely accepted at that point in history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_massacre

Next time you use the word Chinamen, please add a trigger warning.
ray1970
02-12-2016, 09:20
Next time you use the word Chinamen, please add a trigger warning.
My apologies. Not really a word I use. That's just what they called them back in those times. I love all of my Asian brothers.
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def90
02-12-2016, 11:49
Huh.. Interesting.. I just drove through Rock Springs this past week on the way to and back from Jackson.. Whatever you do, don't stop at the Ammo Hut, unless you enjoy the company of bat shit crazy old ladies..
flogger
02-12-2016, 18:20
I lived in Rock Springs during the Trona craze in the mid 1970's. It was a wild place back then and kind of a shithole with drugs, prostitution, crime and crooked cops. Ended up moving to Ft Bridger, much nicer place (except for doing some construction work for Mark Hopkinson, who was later executed for the murder of 4 people), the Uinta Mountains and the Flaming Gorge (Utah) are spectacular.

Lots of cool history in Wyoming and the West in general, some of it not good.