Your browser is not supported for this experience. We recommend using Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari. Below are a number of interesting trivia questions to use as Escort Notes. The presiding minister noted in his prayer book that he "didn't think they meant it. He was holding two pair - aces and eights - which soon became known as the "dead man's hand. What famous couple was married in Holliday Park in ?
What street in Cheyenne had the most saloons in the olden days? During Cheyenne's "Hell on Wheels" days, 15th Street was the center of a booming "red light" district where railroad men could visit the saloons and brothels, hanging their red lanterns outside the doors so their engineers could locate them when their trains were departing. What is the 60' tall granite pyramid out in the middle of the prairie along I west of Cheyenne? Ames Monument was built as a tribute to Oliver and Oakes Ames, two brothers who were leaders in the construction of the trans-continental railroad.
The monument was built around at the highest point along the transcontinental route in the railroad town of Sherman. In later years, Union Pacific moved the tracks south and the town disappeared. However, the 60' pyramid tribute to the Ames Monument remains on the Wyoming high plains.
In what popular mode of transportation began running between Cheyenne and South Dakota? The Deadwood Stage carried passengers and freight between the South Dakota gold fields and Cheyenne, the region's largest shipping point.
In , freighter "Phatty" Thompson paid local Cheyenne boys 25 cents for every stray cat they could find. He loaded up the Deadwood stage with howling cats and off he went to Deadwood, convinced that the dancehall girls would purchase them. Along the way the stagecoach overturned sending hundreds of wild cats free in the prairie. How many trains come through Cheyenne each day on the average? Mary O'Hara. She lived west of Cheyenne off I at the Remount Ranch.
