ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[EDelMar]

Underwood Crossing, WY, which is just southeast of a big humonguous coal mine, the largest coal mine in North America!









  -Ennis

[belbbmfan]

Gulf, Texas

[nova20194]

Foremost, AB

Foremost is a village in southern Alberta. It is located south of Medicine Hat, in Forty Mile County.

Foremost has a population of about 500 people. It has a strong agriculture industry. Recreation facilites include an ice arena, swimming pool, curling rink and ball diamonds. Every June the residents hold a parade, rodeo and tough truck competition. Hockey is a big sport in Foremost. The local team is called the Foremost Flyers. The school has a long history of winning sports teams. The Foremost Falcons and Forettes have won many provincial titles in basketball, volleyball, track and field and cross country running. The village also has a strong arts community presenting community theatre as well as a school dramatic department.

[MaineWriter]

Truscott, TX

Truscott had (in 1880) once been named China Lake for a grove of Chinaberry trees growing along a small lake.

With the organization of the county the name was changed to honor pioneer J. Truscott, an early settler.

Truscott was the first teacher of the Truscott school, established in 1888. The one-room schoolhouse served until 1907, when it burned.

That same year the town moved a mile to be on the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway.

The Truscott school burned in1945, and even after a new school was built, enrollment decreased to the point where it closed.

Truscott was an aberration during the Great Depression when the population doubled from 250 in 1930 to 500 in1940.

By1980 Truscott was on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line and reported 187 residents.

[belbbmfan]

Tangent, Alberta

[nova20194]

Three Hills, AB

Three Hills is a town located in the southern part of the province of Alberta, Canada. It is so named because of the three highly visible hills that are situated to its north.

Population: 3,554 (2005)

Three Hills was incorporated as a village in 1912, the year it was moved to its current location on the Canadian Northern Railway. With ranchers and farmers constituting its first residents, it soon became a centre for the surrounding wheat-growing area.

In 1922, the Prairie Bible College was established in Three Hills with L.E. Maxwell as its founding principal. This occurrence helped to increase the population of the town proper and its adjacent settlements. By the mid 1980's the nearby hamlets of Grantville and Ruarkville and the spacious 130 acre Bible College campus were annexed to the town.

Although a relatively small community, Three Hills had the distinction of hosting the Alberta Senior Summer Games in 1997. The town was chosen to host this event because of its being able to utilize large and well equipped facilities at the college. This included the opening and closing ceremonies which took place in the 4,300 seat Maxwell Memorial Tabernacle, Canada's largest religious auditorium (1954-2005).

Phil Callaway, a Christian humorist author and speaker was born in and still lives in Three Hills.

Actress Erica Durance, known for her role as Lois Lane on the hit WB Network TV show Smallville is a former resident.

[MaineWriter]

Sabinal, TX

Thomas B. Hammer is credited as being the first settler in the area. Hammer opened a stage stop on the eastside of the Sabinal River around 1854 and when a post office was granted the same year the town was designated Hammer’s Station. A Cavalry outpost was established in 1856 on the west bank of the river for the settlers protection. The camp’s presence, however, didn’t intimidate the bandits that killed Hammer in 1857.

Sabinal got a railroad (Southern Pacific) connection in 1881– the same year that Turkish Angora goats were introduced. In 1893 the town had two hotels and the population was reported as 150 for 1884 – not bad for the era.

By 1906, the year the town incorporated, 500 Sabinalistas called the place home. Irrigation for cotton crops was provided by the lumberyard’s windmill and enough cotton was produced to keep six gins in operation. Wool and mohair production were important economic mainstays.

Water and fire departments were established and telephone service began – all in the magic year of 1906. By 1911, the population had swelled to an estimated 1,500 – and those who could read, read The Sentinel - the town’s own weekly newspaper.

A school specifically for Hispanics was opened in the mid 1930s. With schools consolidations, a new elementary and high school were built in town. Five school buses fanned out daily to gather students over the district’s 356 mile territory.

The population reached its zenith in the mid-1950s, with about 2,300 people, but it had declined to 1,570 by 1974 By 1990 the estimated population was about the same.

Sabinal River

The Sabinal River which flows from springs north of Vanderpool (Bandera County) continues past Sabinal to the west of town and eventually joins the Frio River. The Sabinal River is only 60 miles long, and for some of its length it flows underground. The Spanish had originally named the river Arroyo de la Soledad, or "Stream of Solitude."



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[belbbmfan]

Lyman, Wyoming

[Front-Ranger]

Norris Junction, Wyoming

It's in Yellowstone National Park.


To many people, the most exciting thermal area in Yellowstone National Park is Norris Geyser Basin. The geyser basin is Yellowstone's most compact thermal area, with literally hundreds of geysers, pools, hot springs and other features, many of which can be viewed on a walk of less than two miles. It is divided into two areas: Porcelain Basin to the north and Back Basin to the south. Porcelain Basin includes such geysers as Africa, which displays constantly; Dark Cavern Geyser, which erupts several times an hour and shoots 11-20 feet; and Constant, which also erupts several times an hour but at heights of 10-40 feet. One of the high points of Back Basin is Echinus Geyser, but the most interesting geyser is Steamboat. It is unpredictable, but it is the most powerful in the park and shoots water 300-350 feet into the sky. Steamboat erupted in 1969 and was thought to be dormant until March 1978, when it "went off" with great gusto. Since then it has erupted several more times.

[MaineWriter]

Nutsford, TX

in Lampasas County

Leslie