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Writing-on-Stone Park contains the greatest concentration of rock art on the North American Great Plains. [citation needed] There are over 50 petroglyph sites and thousands of works. The park also showcases a North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) outpost reconstructed on its original site. The original outpost was burned down by persons unknown ...
The design on the rocks are clearly American Indian by design. Similar rock art sites are found in Roche Percee and Kamsack, Saskatchewan; Longview and Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta; Pictograph Cave near Billings, Montana; Dinwoody, Wyoming; Ludlow Cave at Buffalo, South Dakota; and at numerous archeological sites in the upper midwestern United States.
William Jay Smith (April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015) was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. [ 1 ]
William J. Smith may refer to: Bill Smith (baseball manager), 19th century baseball manager; William Jay Smith (Tennessee politician) (1823–1913) William J. Smith (Maryland politician) (1850–1906), American politician; William Jay Smith (1918–2015), American poet
Fort Whoop-Up was the nickname (eventually adopted as the official name) given to a whisky trading post, originally Fort Hamilton, near what is now Lethbridge, Alberta. [1] During the late 19th century, the post served as a centre for trading activities, including the illegal whisky trade.
John Smith Stewart was born 16 May 1878 in the Brampton, Ontario, to John Stewart and Mary Armstrong. Stewart moved to Edmonton at the age of 19 in 1896. [1] Stewart later studied dentistry at University of Toronto, completing his studies in 1903. He moved to Lethbridge and married Jean McClure on 25 September 1907; she died in 1914.
William Lethbridge, 1825–1901, after whom the City of Lethbridge was named. William Lethbridge (1825–1901) was a lawyer in England. When bookseller W H Smith owner William Henry Smith II decided to become involved in politics in 1864, he enlisted Lethbridge as a managing partner. He sat for a portrait by Frederick Sandys (1829-1904) in 1882 ...
The Map that Changed the World is a 2001 book by Simon Winchester about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map of England, Wales and southern Scotland. Smith's was the first national-scale geological map, and by far the most accurate of its time.