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Wheatland hosts the annual Platte County Fair & Rodeo, usually held the second full week of August, at the fairgrounds on the east edge of town at Front Street and Antelope Gap Road. [ 19 ] The horse Steamboat , the model for the bucking horse and rider motif on the Wyoming license, was stabled near Wheatland in a barn owned and maintained as a ...
Main entrance of the Wyoming State Fair. The Wyoming State Fair is a largely agricultural exposition and rodeo held every August in Douglas in Converse County in southeastern Wyoming. The fairgrounds are located on west Yellowstone Highway on the waterside of North Platte River. The state fair began in 1886 as the “First Annual Wyoming ...
Location of Platte County in Wyoming. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Platte County, Wyoming. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Platte County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Robert Mills Grant, known as Bob Grant (December 30, 1926 – March 1, 2012), was a third-generation rancher from Platte County in southern Wyoming and from 1983 to 1992 a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives.
Museums in Platte County, Wyoming (1 P) P. Protected areas of Platte County, Wyoming (1 C, ...
Platte County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population was 8,605. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Wheatland .
The Robert Grant Ranch was established in 1891 in Platte County, Wyoming by Scottish immigrant Robert Grant. The ranch represents a complete homestead with a representative collection of buildings and structures associated with a self-sufficient ranching operation in Wyoming. Robert Grant was born in 1847 in Motherwell, Scotland.
Register Cliff is a sandstone cliff and featured key navigational landmark prominently listed in the 19th century guidebooks about the Oregon Trail, and a place where many emigrants chiseled the names of their families on the soft stones of the cliff — it was one of the key checkpoint landmarks for parties heading west along the Platte River valley west of Fort John, Wyoming which allowed ...