September 14

1950 Grand Teton National Park expanded to its present boundaries on September 14, 1950 with the addition of some land from the Jackson Hole National Monument.

1905 From the Cody Enterprise, September 14, 1905, page 1:

"Wyoming Crowded. Collier's weekly comments on what little room we have to breath in as follows: "A traditional right has been invaded. That square mile of fresh air in which every inhabitant of Wyoming has been accustomed to breath and find elbow room, is squeezed and clipped about the edges. The census of 1905 show that 101,819 people must be crowded into Wyoming's 97,890 square miles. Wyoming is filling up. To the ellete and cabined citizen of the east a square mile of empty air seems a dread immensity of space, an abundance of superfluous breath. For the free-born denizen of the Big Horn and the North Platte it is no more than enough. In 1880 there were nearly two square miles of territory for each inhabitant, and in 1890 one and one half square miles. In 1900 each man could still have more than one square mile to himself. Ever the band grows tighter. From the green ranches of Laramie county to the Yellowstone and Powder rivers we seem to hear the distant rumble of rising discontent. On the lonely banks of the Stinking Water the HOn. Buffalo B. Cody stirs himself. The only Powell, his trust side partner—NExt to the last of the Great Scouts—joins in. Their voices thunder in the dull antiphonal chorus: "Give us air." There are two rays of hope. The 1905 census of Iowa show a falling off of 16,785 since the Federal census five years ago. And there is always Nevada. There are over 110,000 square miles in Nevada and only about 42,000 people—almost three square miles to every man."

1887 News of Glenrock from the September 14, 1887 Bill Barlow's Budget.

From Bill Barlow's Budget, September 14, 1887:"Surveyor Collins, this week, surveyed the land on which it is proposed to locate the new town of Glenrock."

1884 On September 14, 1884, Gilbert Leigh, an English gentleman, fell from a cliff near Tensleep. The cliff is now named Leigh Monument (also known as Leigh's Monument).