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3 unusual facts about Green River


11th Ohio Cavalry

The battalion located its headquarters at Pacific Springs, Nebraska Territory, assigned to protect travelers and interests along the North Platte and Sweetwater Rivers, and then at South Pass, Idaho Territory, to guard the Overland Mail routes from Julesburg, Colorado to Green River, Wyoming.

Green River, Utah

From 1964 to 1973 the U. S. Air Force launched 141 Athena Missiles from the Green River launching area, near the Crystal Geyser as part of research to improve nuclear missiles.

Wyoming Army National Guard

When Wyoming became a state in 1890, constitutional provisions allowed for the formation of units in Buffalo, Evanston, Douglas, Green River, Rock Springs, Rawlins and Sheridan.


Abydosaurus

The genus name is a reference to Egyptian mythology: Abydos is the Greek name for a city on the Nile where the head and neck of Osiris were buried, while the holotype of Abydosaurus consists of a head and neck found in rocks overlooking the Green River.

Alfred Jacob Miller

That same year, along with representatives of the American Fur Company, they ventured as far as Fort William and Green River.

Cherokee Trail

There the trail turned west near present day Tie Siding, and proceeded along the Colorado/Wyoming border to Green River and to Fort Bridger where it struck the other emigrant trails.

Howard Stansbury

Following the advice of Jim Bridger and local trappers and traders, the expedition followed the Blacks Fork River east, crossed the Green River near the present town of Green River, Wyoming and proceeded east along the Bitter Creek valley, crossing the Red Desert, and skirting the northern side of Elk Mountain across the Laramie Plains.

Limnofregata

It inhabited the freshwater or brackish lakes that had in its time formed in today's Green River valley due to the uplift of the Rocky Mountains, where it fed on smaller vertebrates and probably harassed other shorebirds for food and feasted on dead fish (e.g. Knightia) during summer dieoffs due to oxygen depletion in the eutrophic lakes.

Louis Vasquez

By 1843 they had built Fort Bridger on Blacks Fork of the Green River, which became as much an emigrant station as trading post.

Overland Trail

Following the same path as the later transcontinental railroad and modern Interstate 80, the trail crosses the Red Desert and follows Bitter Creek through the present towns of Rock Springs, Point of Rocks, and Green River.

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 Kentuckian

The picture was shot on location in Kentucky in the Cumberland Falls area, the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park near London, Owensboro and Green River, and at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Village near Rockport, Indiana.


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21st Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry

The 21st Kentucky Infantry was organized at Camp Hobson, near Greensburg, Kentucky and Camp Ward, Kentucky and mustered in for a three year enlistment on December 31, 1861 and January 2, 1862 at Green River Bridge, Kentucky under the command of Colonel Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley.

Flaming Gorge Dam

This led to the first exploration of the Green River, by William H. Ashley, one of the organizers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.

The cancellation of Echo Park Dam, a proposal in the scenic downstream Green River canyon of Echo Park, was won by environmentalists primarily from the Sierra Club, at that time led by David Brower.

Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport

On July 5, 1994, Resolution R94-23 of the Green River city council designated this landing field as the "Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport", for inhabitants of Jupiter who might wish to take sanctuary in Green River in the event their planet is threatened by collisions from comets or meteors.

Highland Park and Lake Burien Railway

It was called "The Highline" to distinguish it from "The Mainline" which in the south end went out the Duwamish/Green River Valley to Renton Junction, on to near Kent and Auburn to Puyallup onto Tacoma.

John S. Gilmore

The most influential of which is the 1975 book Boom Town Growth Management: A Case Study of Rock Springs – Green River, Wyoming (with Mary K. Duff) (Westview, Florida Press).

Master of Brutality

The instrumental track "Green River" is inspired by serial killer Gary Ridgway.

Names

Names Hill, a bluff on the Green River in Wyoming, United States

Pilgrim Radio

In addition to streaming its programming at pilgrimradio.com, the signal is broadcast over-the-air on KNIS in Carson City, Nevada, KNVQ in Elko, Nevada, KDOX in in Big Pine, California, KCSP-FM in Casper, Wyoming, KDNR in Cheyenne, Wyoming, KTME in Rock Springs / Green River, Wyoming, KPMD in Evanston, Wyoming, KMJB in Lander / Riverton, Wyoming, and KLMT in Billings, Montana.

Pinedale, Wyoming

The town hosts the Green River Rendezvous, a reenactment of historic fur trader gatherings at the Upper Green River Rendezvous Site in nearby Daniel.

Route of the Oregon Trail

The Lander Road departs the main trail at Burnt Ranch near South Pass, crosses the Continental Divide north of South Pass and reaches the Green River near the present town of Big Piney, Wyoming.

Swallow My Pride

During a Pearl Jam concert in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 30, 1993, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam (both previously in Green River) reunited with Turner and Arm of Mudhoney to cover the song.