Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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' 'l a'f ' SHER IDAN HIGH SCHOOL I 'The construction of the new Sheridan High School building was begun in March, 1925, and was completed in January, 1926. The building is 270 feet long' and 184 feet deep. It contains forty-four class rooms, laboratories and study halls. 1 A Manual Arts buildin,eg houses the department of Manual Training and Agri- cu ture. The seating capacity of the auditorium is one thousand. The total cost of the building, equipment and grounds was S443,000.00. The Student Body using this equipment in the year 1926-1927 numbered almost eight hundred. -'The new high school is now, and will continue to be, an inspiration to the pres- ent and future high school students of Sheridan. ' , -Margaret Blake , . s- .538 F0 U R'l'I'ZLX f .. W:,s.gH,ai.,.,..: -- K f

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WWYWZ. 1 1 , , . ,, , .3 . . . J , , - 'I I , e N f X Y X X . C- Q W M W fx, W1 .52 I ,v,5L!:f:.ii41+ ,-,U K' ' ' 'W I -' K -JH 4' 1i.,'L1'-.'v'4 I -i1,'.K 'f+ 'f ,He ' ' MEDI CINE WHEEL On the top of Medicine Mountain is the famous Medicine Wheel. As the name implies, this medicine wheel circle is composed of loose stone. In the middle is a stone hut from which spokes radiate to the circumference, there terminating in small stone huts. The medicine men were supposed to live in these huts during the religious ceremonies, while the Great Spirit was said to occupy the central and larger one. The wheel is of great antiquity, no one knowing when it was made, or why, or by whom. It may be a symbol of Sun Worship. The Indians can tell nothing of it, but they all regard it as a sacred place. Regarding its origin all they will say is, It was a long, long time ago. The ancient Indians are said to have met there under truce, and present day Indians probably used it as a place to communicate with the Great Spirit, and as a place where they obtained their strong 'medicine'. The Crow Indians have so deep a regard for' this shrine that they never permit any sharp instrument of warfare to be carried on the grounds. - There are many stories concerning the Wheel among' the Indians but they all agree in this particular, that it is sacred and holy ground. ' BALD BIOUNTAIN CITY At the present site of Bald Mountain City gold was first discovered in 1889. There was an immediate rush of prospectors and miners to the place and work was begun in the spring of 1890. About two hundred dollars worth of gold was panned in the first two Weeks. The! following year some New York capitalists became inter- ested in the proposition and organized a gold-mining company to develop this dis- covery. Machinery was hauled from Gillette in 1892 since the railroad had not yet been built. The machinery plus the expense of bringing it to the mining camp cost the company about one-half million dollars. A large mining camp, called Bald Mountain City, sprang up about 1892 and boomed for about four years. However, it did not last long, for the men fostering the enterprise went bankrupt and abandoned it. Several other companies have tried to make a success of gold-mining at this place, but have failed because of the great amlount of preparation necessary and the shortness of the season. Work can be done for only four or five months each year because of the early and late snows. Consequently nrost of the buildings have fallen down and no one goes there now except for curiosity. Bald Mountain City is about sixty miles west and one and one-half miles north of Sheridan or about six miles north and west of Little Bald Mountain. . . T1!IR'1'EEN V,-, I 'V 31 77' I ' -' gif-1' v:,fz5'mz'T'i 1: , f I 3 f ' '

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