Absaroka

Absaroka

:"Absaroka is also an alternative name for a Native American tribe; see Crow Nation. For other uses, see Absaroka (disambiguation)."

Absaroka (pronounced "ab-SOR-ka" [ [http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/301-look-at-the-state-youre-in-absaroka/ Strange Maps: Look at the state you're in: Absaroka] ] ) was an area in the United States, comprising parts of the states of Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming, that contemplated secession and statehood in 1939. [Johnson, Kirk. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/us/24wpa.html?hp "A State That Never Was in Wyoming"] . New York Times. July 24, 2008.] One of the leaders of the secessionist movement was A. R. Swickard, who appointed himself "governor" and started hearing grievances in the "capital" of Sheridan, Wyoming. [Florence, Mason, Marisa Gierlich, and Andrew Dean Nystrom. 2001. Lonely Planet Rocky Mountains: Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xbyzo0lKIUwC&pg=PA413&lpg=PA413&dq=%22state+of+absaroka%22&source=web&ots=UlN-yIhRdc&sig=4YUwQciStKoiaafxK3Am2MV27fI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result p413] .] License plates were distributed, as well as pictures of "Miss Absaroka 1939". [License plate for “State of Absaroka.” Inventory of the H.H. Horton papers, 1897-1960. [http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah01088.xml Series III, Box 4: Artifacts, circa 1917-circa 1939] . University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.] The movement was generally unsuccessful and fairly short-lived. The chief record of its existence comes from the Federal Writers' Project, which included a story about the plan as an example of Western eccentricity. [Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Wyoming. [http://books.google.com/books?id=0DwIAAAAIAAJ&q=State+of+Absaroka&dq=State+of+Absaroka&lr=&pgis=1 "Wyoming: A Guide to Its History, Highways, and People"] . Oxford University Press. 1941.]

ee also

*List of United States territories that failed to become states
*Secession

References

Bibliography

*Roberts, Phil. [http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/ROBERTSHISTORY/great_depression_and_the_new_dea.htm "The Great Depression and the New Deal in Wyoming"] . Accessed July 24, 2008.
* Parker, Watson. Deadwood: The Golden Years. 1981. [http://books.google.com/books?id=r7WHjkq9g7gC&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=%22state+of+absaroka%22&source=web&ots=dEIBkoWkDr&sig=yIuhJxfsIf6VAGCby-wGsKHy2gs&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result p220] . University of Nebraska Press.


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