Lorna J. Whisler tells the fascinating story of a small corner of northeastern Wyoming, centered on Rozet in the decades after cattle trails and railroads first reached the area at the end of the 1800s. This is the story of the settler families and the communities they founded in a challenging landscape. Life was not easy in Campbell County a hundred and more years ago. Drought, blizzards, poverty, illness, and isolation took their toll, compounded by the local impacts of global events such as the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Despite everything, rural Campbell County's communities persisted and prospered thanks to the stubborn strength, creative ingenuity, and hard work of its settler families. Whisler's book gives a fine-grained example of how the American West changed following the nineteenth-century Indian Wars and the 1862 Homestead Act. The U.S. government's promise of free land-emptied of its aboriginal population-drew people from the eastern U.S. and far across the Atlantic with the promise of opportunity. Some settlers found opportunity, others moved on, and Rozet remains a reminder and testament of how today's rural Wyoming arose in the early 1900s.
Rozet, Campbell County, Wyoming, and Its Homestead Families (1880 - 1949) will deepen your knowledge whether you live in Campbell County or it's simply a place that holds some of your family's past. Whisler presents histories of a long list of family names that will be familiar if you have roots in Campbell County. On one hand, many place names in the county commemorate its settlers, real people who shaped Wyoming's landscape and society. On the other hand, Rozet's early families had to work, learn, play, and worship together to succeed. Names your family might recognize today may be recognizable because of threshing bees, marriages, business ventures, or roundups that happened decades past. Learning about Rozet's past can teach you about your family's past-as well as the broad processes of change that brought modern, rural Wyoming into being over a century ago.
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Höhe: 286 mm
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978-0-9982215-7-1 (9780998221571)
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Lorna J. Whisler was born in Wyoming and grew up with a large extended family of aunts and uncles and cousins. After graduating from Campbell County High School in May 1954, she went to work for the Mountain States Telegraph and Telephone Company as a telephone operator and worked there for more than four years until the telephone company converted to a dial system that would no longer require operators at the Gillette office. After passing a federal civil service test, she was assigned to the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D. C. There she worked in the Distribution Division responsible for distribution of Navy officers and enlisted personnel to and from their duty assignments throughout their careers. In 1980, as the Head of the Travel Orders Section, Lorna was assigned to the automation of Navy travel orders Task Force. For her contributions toward the automation of Navy personnel travel orders, she was presented with the Navy's Superior Civilian Service Award in 1982. She retired on November 3, 1995, as Assistant head of the Travel Orders Section, in the Distribution Department of the Navy Military Personnel Command (formerly the Bureau of Naval Personnel).A love of history, especially local & family histories, propelled Lorna in the early 1970s, Before Internet, to begin researching the history of her paternal and maternal grandparents who homesteaded in the Rozet, Wyoming, area in 1913 and 1922. She spent several of her vacations in courthouse basements, libraries, and cemeteries in Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Virginia, Wyoming, and Nova Scotia, Canada. She never intended to put the data into a book until she received inquiries from several of her cousins' children about their grandparents and great grandparents that the possibility of compiling a book for them came to fruition. Retired, she now lives in Natural Bridge, Virginia.
