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unusual facts about Etna, Wyoming


George Osmond

Osmond was born in Etna, Wyoming, the son of Agnes LaVerna (née Van Noy) and Rulon Osmond.


Alfred Trower

Trower then transferred to London Rowing Club and in August 1876 Trower, together with Gulston, R H Labat, and J Rowell went to Philadelphia on the steam ship Wyoming to take part in the town's centennial regatta.

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.

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.

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.

Dale Groutage

Dale Groutage (born 1944) is an engineer who ran in 2006 as the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Wyoming against incumbent Senator Craig Thomas.

École des technologies numériques appliquées

Students of ETNA can prepare major certifications (Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Oracle).

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.

Esterbrook, Wyoming

In 1946 the Esterbrook Community Church (one of 29 mission churches in the Episcopal Missionary District of Wyoming) was built with a window behind the altar with a view to Laramie Peak.

Farthing

Farthing, Wyoming (also known as Iron Mountain), a railroad station and post office in Wyoming

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

From 1978 to 1981 it was held at different locations, and from 1982 it has been held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Fine Just the Way It Is

A childless Wyoming couple transfer their affections first to a piglet, then to a chicken, and finally to a sagebrush they fancy to have the appearance of a child.

Fort Bernard

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

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.

KCSP

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

Kepler Cascades

The cascades were named by Philetus Norris, park superintendent in 1881 for the 12 year old son of Wyoming's territorial governor John Wesley Hoyt.

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

Max Maxfield

He was also a board member of the Wyoming Congressional Youth Awards, Special Olympics, Wyoming Children’s Society, and the High Desert Riders.

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

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.

Smiles for Diversity

After the attack on a Jewish day-care center in California and the murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, Dan Fischer set up The Diversity Foundation to encourage dentists to promote respect for human diversity.

Sotra Patera

It has been compared with terrestrial volcanoes such as Etna, Laki and volcanic cones near Flagstaff, Arizona.

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 Daily Coyote

It chronicles the story of a young woman who moves to Wyoming after living in New York and her adjustment to the same.

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

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.

United States House of Representatives elections in Wyoming, 2014

The 2014 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to elect the U.S. Representative from Wyoming's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of Wyoming in the 114th United States Congress.

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.

Villafranca Tirrena

In fact it offers a wide artistic and architectonic wealth and the possibility to effect trekking routes on the Peloritani or trips towards other towns of Eastern Sicily: Taormina, Catania, Etna, Siracusa, Eolie Isles, Messina, Tindari and Nebrodi Park.

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.

William F. Downes

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

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.

Wolf-Dieter Storl

After returning to the United States in 1984, he spent much time with traditional medicine persons of the Cheyenne and taught courses at Sheridan College, Wyoming.

Wyoming Mercantile

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


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