Podcast #5-S1 WWII JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITE – Forced Removal “ASSEMBLY CENTERS”: A RUDE AWAKENING President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, authorizing the military to designate “military zones,” General John L. DeWitt subsequently issued “Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry” on March 2, 1942. The instructions, posted in…
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Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum
Podcast #4-S1 In the spring of 1900, Pharmacist Theodore James Gatchell, better known as Jim, opened the first drugstore in Johnson County. The Buffalo Pharmacy became a popular stopping place for cowboys, lawmen, settlers, cattle barons, and famous Army scouts. Jim became a trusted friend to the region’s Native Americans, local residents, and those that…
King’s Saddlery & King Ropes & The Don King Museum
Podcast #3-S1 King’s Saddlery is a complete Western tack store. We have a large inventory of merchandise for the cowboy, cowgirl and city-slicker! We carry a wide selection of saddles, ropes, bridles, bits, headstalls, reins, halters, roping equipment, barrel racing equipment, saddle bags, saddle blankets and slickers… to just name a few of our items….
The Natural Trap Cave
Podcast #1-S1 Caves have provided shelters for humans and animals for thousands of years. Archeologists have identified and excavated many inhabited caves and rock shelters within the Bighorn Basin, including Natural Trap Cave, which yielded fossils dating from 20,000 years ago. Animals of Natural Trap Cave Natural Trap Cave, an 80-foot-deep sinkhole-type pit with a…