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unusual facts about Auburn, Wyoming



2001 College Football All-America Team

Damon Duval, Auburn (Walter Camp, AFCA-Coaches, AP)

2007 Kansas State Wildcats football team

Auburn quarterback Brandon Cox threw a touchdown pass to Gabe McKenzie with 2:01 remaining in the fourth quarter and Antonio Coleman returned a fumble for a score moments later to give No. 18 Auburn a 23-13 win over Kansas State.

A. H. de Oliveira Marques

He left for the United States where he taught history at a number of universities (Auburn, Florida, Columbia, Minnesota and Chicago) between 1965 and 1970.

Battle of Shimonoseki Straits

The USS Wyoming under Captain David McDougal sailed into the strait and single-handedly engaged the US-built but poorly manned Japanese fleet.

Ben Tate

Tate finished at Auburn 5th on the career rushing list, behind Auburn greats Bo Jackson, Carnell Williams, James Brooks, and Joe Cribbs.

Bonnie McCarroll

In 1922, she won two cowgirl bronc riding championships at both Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the first rodeo hosted at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Bryant Butler Brooks

His official portrait was painted by artist Michele Rushworth and hangs in the state capitol in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Callophrys sheridanii

In 2009, this species was adopted as the U.S. state butterfly for Wyoming.

CASA 2.111

The aircraft was attempting a landing at the Cheyenne Municipal Airport, near Cheyenne, Wyoming, while en route from Midland, Texas to an air show in Missoula, Montana.

Casper, WY Metropolitan Statistical Area

See also: U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Casper, Wyoming, Natrona County, Wyoming, the Metropolitan Areas of Wyoming, and the Laramie Mountain Range.

Chuck Long

Finally, Long was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy to Bo Jackson of Auburn in the second closest race in the award's history, losing by just 45 points.

Chugwater, Wyoming

Clayton Danks, the model of the Wyoming Bucking Horse and Rider state symbol, worked on the 2-Bar Ranch near Chugwater early in the 20th century.

Cornelius Donahue

Doug Engebretson in his book "Empty saddles, forgotten names: Outlaws of the Black Hills and Wyoming" has the following to say on the demise of Johnny.

Deep South's Oldest Rivalry

With 36 seconds remaining and faced with 4th and 18 from the Tiger 26-yardline, Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall, a former defensive back for the Bulldogs during the 2011 season, threw a Hail Mary pass, which was tipped by Georgia safety Josh Harvey-Clemons right into the hands of Auburn sophomore wide receiver Ricardo Louis.

Edwin H. Whitehead

Edwin H. "Ed" Whitehead (February 26, 1925 - May 20, 2007) was a lawyer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and an early supporter of John F. Kennedy for the American presidency in a state which three times supported Richard M. Nixon.

Estella Leopold

By studying the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming, Leopold helped recreate the paleoenvironment of the Paleogene and Neogene periods.

Fort Bernard

Fort Bernard was a small trading post in Wyoming, along the North Platte River on the Oregon Trail.

Hanley Funderburk

In 1980, Henry Hanley Funderburk became President of Auburn University after Governor Fob James recommended him.

Harriet Elizabeth Byrd

Byrd graduated with a bachelor's degree in education from West Virginia State College, a historically black college in Institute, West Virginia in 1949, and returned to Wyoming in order to apply for a teaching job with the Laramie County School District, but was denied employment because of her race.

Hoback River

It rises in the southern Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and flows northeast through the Teton National Forest, before turning northwest to join the Snake just downstream of Jackson Hole, near the head of the Snake River Canyon and near the town of Hoback.

Howard Stansbury

Rather than follow the standard Oregon Trail route from Fort Bridger over South Pass through the Sweetwater River valley, Stansbury wanted to scout a more direct route east.

I Still Miss Someone

Jimmy Buffett performed the song as a dedication to Cash at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, Washington on September 16, 2003, four days after Cash's death.

Joanne P. McCallie

While at Auburn, McCallie and the Tigers appeared in two national championship games and made an appearance in the NCAA Elite Eight.

KCSP

KCSP-FM, a radio station (90.3 FM) licensed to Casper, Wyoming, United States

KGRG

KGRG-FM, a radio station (89.9 FM) licensed to Auburn, Washington, United States

KMGW

KRNK, a radio station in Casper, Wyoming, United States known as KMGW from 2001 to 2009

Linda St. Clair

Collectors include Walt Disney Corporation President Michael Mendenhall, Bill Marriot of Marriot Hotels and Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming.

Little Bighorn

Little Bighorn River, (previously called Little Big Horn River) a tributary of the Bighorn River in Wyoming and Montana

Mel Hamilton

Hamilton and his associates have also been praised by Darius Gray, an African-American Latter-day Saint who went to Wyoming to try to defuse the situation in 1969, for taking a non-violent route in voicing their concerns.

New York State Route 238

Outside of Attica Center, NY 238 winds its way northward toward the village of Attica, passing the eastern edge of the Attica and Wyoming Correctional Facilities—more prominently the work farm operated by the facilities.

Newport International University

The Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the law in a June 2008 ruling, and in April 2009 NIU relinquished its Wyoming registration and announced plans to merge with Newport University in California.

Orson Lowell

Born in Wyoming, Iowa, Lowell was the son of landscapist Milton H. Lowell.

P. microphyllus

Philadelphus microphyllus, the littleleaf mock-orange, a plant species native to northern Mexico and the southwestern quadrant of the United States as far north as Wyoming

Percy Beard

He became a world-class hurdler at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) in Auburn, Alabama.

Rock Springs Uplift

The Rock Springs Uplift is an area of uplifted Cretaceous to Eocene rocks in Wyoming surrounded and once covered by sediments of the Green River Formation which were deposited in the Eocene Lake Gosiute.

Scouting in Wyoming

While detained in the camp, Mineta, a Boy Scout, met fellow Scout Alan K. Simpson, future U.S. Senator from Wyoming, who often visited the Scouts in the internment camp with his troop.

Silverwater, New South Wales

Silverwater is serviced by several bus services including routes to Parramatta, Strathfield, Auburn, Ryde and of course Sydney Olympic Park.

Son of Briartic

His influence as a sire in Washington was such that Emerald Downs in Auburn named a race in his honor.

Sublette County, Wyoming

In 1965, Berton Roueché described his wonderful trip along the Green River that set out from the Circle S Ranch in Cora, Wyoming in Subletter County with the ranch's foreman Thomas Scholebo.

The Lawless Nineties

The Lawless Nineties is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Wayne and Lane Chandler as federal agents in Wyoming.

The Redhead from Wyoming

The Redhead from Wyoming is a 1953 American Western drama film produced by Leonard Goldstein and directed by Lee Sholem.

Thermopolis, Wyoming

Barton R. Voigt — current Chief Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court

Tracy Rocker

Rocker returned to Auburn to complete his undergraduate degree in 1992 and began his coaching career with the Auburn High School Tigers the same year.

UNIFAT

Schools involved Include Eastern High School (New Jersey), Moeller High School, Mount Notre Dame High School, Purcell Marian High School, Sycamore High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), and Madeira High School, Anderson High School, Taylor High School, Wyoming High School, and others from the Greater Cincinnati Area.

Uranium mining in Wyoming

The uranium will be absorbed onto ion-exchange resin beads at the mine; the beads will be shipped to existing facilities of Power Resources Inc. (Cameco) in Wyoming and Nebraska for recovery of the uranium.

Wamsutter, Wyoming

The town, which bills itself as "The Gateway to the Red Desert" is located along Interstate 80 between Rawlins and Rock Springs, on the easternmost border of Sweetwater County.

WFGA

Although its city of license is in Ohio, WFGA now primarily concentrates on serving the Auburn and Garrett area in northeastern Indiana, where its signal is much stronger than in Fort Wayne.

WIFF

WGBJ, a radio station (102.3 FM ) licensed to serve Auburn, Indiana, United States, which held the call sign WIFF-FM from 1967 to 1995

William Goodsir-Cullen

William "Willie" James Goodsir-Cullen (29 March 1907 in Firozepur – 15 June 1994 in Wyoming, New South Wales, Australia) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Wyoming Mercantile

Wyoming Mercantile, also known as the Aladdin General Store is a preserved small-town general store in Aladdin, Wyoming.


see also

Route of the Oregon Trail

At Soda Springs was one branch of Lander Road (established and built with government contractors in 1858) which had gone west from near South Pass, over the Salt River Mountains and down Star Valley before turning west near present day Auburn, Wyoming and entering Idaho.