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4 unusual facts about Western United States


David Lavender

He also began to write about the American West he had experienced growing up – wanting to record a way of life that was slowly fading away.

David Sievert Lavender (February 4, 1910 – April 26, 2003) was an American historian and writer of the Western United States.

Phantom Canyon

Phantom Canyon is the name of two canyons located in Colorado, in the Western United States.

Souper Salad

Barshick subsequently opened locations all across Texas and then began to expand to the Western United States.


25th Operational Weather Squadron

The 25th Operational Weather Squadron is responsible for producing and disseminating mission planning and execution weather analyses, forecasts, and briefings for Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, Guard, Reserve, USSTRATCOM, and USNORTHCOM forces operating at 68 installations/sites in a 11 state region of the Western United States.

Bill Stall

After ten years of unsuccessful efforts to pass such a bill, the proposal passed in the legislature and was signed into law by Governor Gray Davis, making California the first state in the Western United States to enact such a law.

Brady Udall

Udall is a member of the Udall family, a U.S. political family rooted in the American West.

Deseret Telegraph Company

On June 16, 1860 the 36th United States Congress had passed the Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860, allowing the federal government to facilitate and seek bids on the construction of a telegraph line connecting the Eastern United States with the country's West.

Lieutenant Marvels

Brooklyn, New York City has its own Billy Batson, and he travels to the W.H.I.Z. radio station with two other Billy Batsons, one from the Western United States and one from the Southern United States, to visit the "real" Billy.

New Montgomery Street

The extension was strongly supported by businessman and Bank of California founder William Ralston – who started the construction of the original Palace Hotel, at the time the largest hotel in the Western United States – in an effort to expand San Francisco's business district to the yet undeveloped area south of Market.

Richmond Fontaine

Underpinned by lead singer and songwriter Willy Vlautin's lyrics, Richmond Fontaine songs often evoke imagery of Reno, Nevada, Portland, the Western United States and Mexico while telling stories in a style that critics have compared to Raymond Carver.

Volkswagen Blues

Together in Jack's Volkswagen Minibus, they embark on a journey from Gaspé to San Francisco, passing through Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis and the American West on their way, exploring the history of European contact with the native people of the Americas.

William Larimer Mellon, Sr.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 1, 1868 to James Ross Mellon, eldest son of Judge Thomas Mellon, and Rachel Larimer Mellon, daughter of railroad and land baron William Larimer, Jr. He spent part of his childhood in the West with his uncle Andrew Mellon, who deeply influenced him.

XpressWest

XpressWest (formerly known as DesertXpress) is a private venture proposal backed by a Las Vegas, Nevada hotel developer to build a privately funded high-speed rail passenger train in the Western United States to connect Palmdale and Victorville, California to Las Vegas and later to Phoenix, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, Colorado.


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Alexander Courage

He served in the United States Army Air Forces in the western United States during the Second World War.

Antonio Ravalli

Antonio Ravalli (b. in Ferrara, Italy, 1812; d. at St. Mary's, Montana, USA, 2 October 1884) was an Italian Jesuit missionary, active in the western United States.

Audichron Company

From the 1980s, the female voices were provided by Barbe and Fleet; they were joined by Joanne Daniels, who did number-change announcements and who was the "time lady" for most of the Western United States.

Blue huckleberry

Vaccinium deliciosum (also called Cascade bilberry or Cascade huckleberry), Western United States and British Columbia, Canada - a bilberry

Cleome platycarpa

It is native to the western United States from northeastern California to Idaho, including the Modoc Plateau, where it grows on clay and volcanic soils in the sagebrush.

Cleomella plocasperma

It is native to the Great Basin and Mojave Desert in the western United States, where it grows mainly in wet, alkaline soils such as those around hot springs.

Daniel C. Swan

His research on the history, significance, and artistic forms of the Native American Church has led to research and exhibition collaborations with artists and elders in a diversity of American Indian communities, both in Oklahoma and elsewhere in the Western United States.

Dimeresia

This uncommon plant is found in one region in the western United States where northeastern California meets Oregon and Nevada at the Modoc Plateau.

E. californica

Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy, a plant species native to the western United States and in Mexico

Eliza Barchus

Traveling extensively in the Western United States from the 1890s through about 1920, she painted Cascade Range volcanoes such as Three Sisters, Mount Shasta, and Crater Lake; the Columbia River Gorge; Yellowstone Falls; Half Dome in Yosemite National Park; San Francisco Bay; Muir Glacier in Alaska, and hundreds of other spots.

Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco

One of the busiest and well known tourist attractions in the western United States, Fisherman's Wharf is best known for being the location of Pier 39, the Cannery Shopping Center, Ghirardelli Square, a Ripley's Believe it or Not museum, the Musée Mécanique, the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, the Aquarium of the Bay, and the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.

Forfar

Eilley Bowers, in her time, one of the richest women in the United States, and owner of the Bowers Mansion, one of the then largest houses in the western United States.

Francis Crowe Society

The society was founded in the fall of 2000 by Dean Larryl Matthews and named in honor of Francis T. Crowe, a Civil Engineer of the University's class of 1905 who designed 19 of the 'super-dams' in the Western United States that made farming possible in the Great Basin, the California Central Valley, Central Arizona and the Imperial Valley.

Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company

Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, the largest black-owned insurance company in the western United States, was founded by William Nickerson, Jr. with the assistance of Norman Oliver Houston and George Allen Beavers, Jr.

Green bean

Green beans, also known as string bean, snap bean in the northeastern and western United States, or ejotes in Mexico, are the unripe fruit of various cultivars of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).

Intermountain Power Plant

The power plant is one of the largest emitters of nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that contributes to haze, in the Western United States.

KUUU

Simmons, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, owns and operates Simmons Radio in Utah, Western Broadcasting, Simmons Lone Star Media, Simmons Outdoor Media, Simmons Ventures and the most prominent travel-related company in the Western United States, Morris Murdock Travel.

Lathyrus rigidus

It is native to the Modoc Plateau and surrounding areas in the western United States from northeastern California to Idaho.

M. nanus

Mimulus nanus, the dwarf purple monkeyflower, a plant species native to the western United States

Mar Aprim Khamis

Since 1994, he serves as Bishop for the Diocese of Western United States, with his see in Phoenix, Arizona.

Medicine Trails

By 1880 a railroad, now referred as the Santa Fe Railroad, was built on the trail which increased trade between Missouri and the Western United States.

P. brownii

Paeonia brownii, the Brown's peony or native peony, a herbaceous perennial flowering plant species native to the western United States

P. humilis

Phacelia humilis, the low phacelia, a plant species native to the western United States

Paramount Petroleum

Paramount also operates a refinery near Portland, Oregon, as well as several marketing terminals in the Western United States.

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

During the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season The Pacific-12 Conference used selections of the poem in their commercial promoting the Pac-12 Network and their schools in the Western United States.

Poison oak

Poison Oak is part of the Sumac (Anacardiaceae)family, Toxicodendron diversilobum or Rhus diversiloba is the binomial name for Poison Oak in the Western United States and south to Mexico.

Protitanops

Protitanops ("Before Titan's Face") was a genus of brontothere that lived during the Eocene, in the Western United States, especially in Death Valley, California, where the best specimens of the species P. curryi have been found.

Ralph Hubbard

As a child he attended Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and as a teenager on a trip to the Western United States he visited the Battle of the Little Big Horn site on one of his summer trips to his uncle’s ranch in Medora.

Red bat

Western Red Bat (Lasiurus blossevillii), a species of bat found in Western United States, also called the "Desert red bat"

Russ Rankin

Rankin holds the position of California/Western United States Regional Scout for the Kootenay Ice, a hockey team that competes in the Western Hockey League.

Santa Barbara Polo Club

Founded in 1911, the Santa Barbara Polo Club in Santa Barbara, California is the premiere equestrian Polo club in the Western United States.

Sheldon Jackson

As he began his extensive missionary career, Reverend Jackson first worked in the north-central and western United States, which were still vast and lightly populated areas during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and in the years soon thereafter.

Tetradymia glabrata

It is native to the western United States, especially the Great Basin and Mojave Desert.

Tiger swallowtail

Papilio rutulus or Western Tiger Swallowtail, endemic to the Western United States

Timothy O'Sullivan

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c.1840–1882), American photographer known for his work on the American Civil War and the Western United States

Trailing of the Sheep

It is similar to the Almabtrieb in Austria, and is intended as a celebration of the history and tradition of sheep husbandry in the Western United States.

Western Science Center

The highlights of this gallery are the skeletons of "Max", the largest mastodon ever discovered in the western United States, and "Xena", a Columbian mammoth.

WJHC

Western Jewish History Center, a library and a large collection of archival material of the Jewish community of the Western United States