Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4! In
this episode, we learn about the lives of George and Carrie Hurlbut who lived
on the Wood River. George was Park County’s first county surveyor and Carrie
taught at numerous area schools including Otto, Fenton, and Sunshine. For more
information on Carrie Hurlbut and her goats, watch this oral history on our
YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/75OvaSGIVvc
To learn more about surveying, check out these sources:
https://rsc.byu.edu/far-away-west/cartographic-representations-american-west-eve-mormon-exodus
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/maps-and-mapmaking/
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/surveying-colonial/
To learn more about the history of teaching, check out these
sources:
https://web.stanford.edu/~dlabaree/publications/An_Uneasy_Relationship_Proofs.pdf
https://suny.buffalostate.edu/news/1871-2021-short-history-education-united-states
https://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/timeline.html
If you’re interested in becoming a member of the Meeteetse
Museums, check out our website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/
The music in this episode is “Blue Digression” by David
Dellacroce from Free Music Archives, licensed under CC BY 4.0. or
CC BY-SA 4.0.
