Local Lookout: Perils facing public lands | Powell planning commission protest | Pig wrestling comeback?

Local Lookout: Perils facing public lands | Powell planning commission protest | Pig wrestling comeback?: A Sublette County forum rates its top three risks to public lands and wildlife. A Powell planning commissioner resigns in protest over a decision to dilute employee protections. The pandemic put an end to pig wrestling at the Teton County Fair, but that could change.

Tuesday, May 10, 1910. Powell incoporated.

Today In Wyoming's History: May 10: 1910  Powell incorporated.

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Labels: 1900s, 1909, 1910, 1910s, California, Costa Rica, Disaster, Geology, Kites, Mining, National Weather Service, Nobel Prize, Russo Japanese War, Theodore Roosevelt

Tuesday, May 25, 1909. Reclamation lots in Powell.

Today In Wyoming's History: May 25: 1909   The Reclamation Service sold lots in Powell, founding the town.

The Indian Councils Act of 1909 was given Royal Assent.  It caused the legislative councils of British Indian provinces to include members elected by Indians.

Israel Greene, age 85, died on his farm near Mitchell, South Dakota.  He had led the Marines who had captured John Brown.  He'd served as a Confederate Marine during the Civil War, even though he'd been born in New York and had grown up in Wisconsin.  His wife was from Virginia.

He'd moved to South Dakota in 1873.

Child labor at  Amoskeag Mfg. Company, Manchester N.H, was photographed.

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Monday, May 24, 1909. European Day of Parks.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, baseball, European Day of Parks, European national parks, Kansas (Coffeyville), panoramic, Sports, Sweden