A History of the Wyoming Capitol
A History of the Wyoming Capitol Linda Graves Fabian Starley Talbott Tuesday, June 4, 2019 The Wyoming Capitol has stood as a symbol of the spirit of the people of Wyoming for well over a century....
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A History of the Wyoming Capitol
A History of the Wyoming Capitol Linda Graves FabianStarley TalbottTuesday, June 4, 2019The Wyoming Capitol has stood as a symbol of the spirit of the people of Wyoming for well over a century....
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A History of the Wyoming Capitol
A History of the Wyoming Capitol Linda Graves FabianStarley TalbottJune 4, 2019The Wyoming Capitol has stood as a symbol of the spirit of the people of Wyoming for well over a century. Through...
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A History of the Wyoming Capitol
A History of the Wyoming Capitol Linda Graves FabianStarley TalbottJune 4, 2019The Wyoming Capitol has stood as a symbol of the spirit of the people of Wyoming for well over a century. Through...
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The Forgotten Town of Dana, Wyo.: A Story of Black Legacy and Miners' Rights
Published: December 19, 2021The town of Dana, Wyo., has largely been forgotten in the history of the West, gone from living memory and barely mentioned in accounts of Wyoming’s boom-and-bust coal...
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The Telegraph Crosses Wyoming, 1861
Published: November 22, 2021Invented by Samuel F. B. Morse in the 1830s, the telegraph was already maturing when it crossed what soon became Wyoming in the 1860s. From the early days of settlement and...
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The University of Wyoming’s Afghan Project, 1953-1973
Published: November 2, 2021During some of the frostiest years of the Cold War, faculty from the University of Wyoming traveled to Afghanistan to help the new university in Kabul, the capital, establish...
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'Mrs. Barriers' and the Crusade to Make Wyoming Buildings Accessible
Published: August 24, 2021The Americans with Disabilities Act was far in the future when a group of Lusk, Wyo. residents first met to propose statewide legislation to make buildings, sidewalks and...
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Black Kettle, Black Elk and the Wyoming State Fair
Published: May 5, 2021In October 1903, six Oglala Lakota Sioux and two white men died in an armed confrontation between a sheriff’s posse and a small band of tribal people on Lightning Creek, about 50...
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Pro-war yet pro-dissent: U.S. Senator Gale McGee of Wyoming
Published: March 25, 2021In those days, Democrats gathered each election eve at a school gymnasium in a small town midway between Riverton and Lander, Wyo. Every statewide candidate felt obligated to...
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Thurman Arnold, Laramie Lawyer and New Deal Trustbuster
Published: January 25, 2021In 1939, The Saturday Evening Post published a lengthy profile of Thurman W. Arnold, a lawyer born and raised in Laramie, Wyo., dubbing him a “Trust Buster” and calling him...
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Baseball, Politics, Triumph and Tragedy: The Career of Lester Hunt
Published: January 11, 2021“Stee-rike three,” the umpire cried, waving his right arm in the air with the call that brought Lester Hunt to Wyoming. Young Hunt had just thrown a no-hitter, rare for the...
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'The Roughest Mountains & Deepest Cañons:' William Richards and the Boundary...
Published: December 7, 2020William A. Richards is fairly well known as an 1890s governor of Wyoming who went on to national office in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Less well known is his...
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1968: Wyoming Reacts to the King Assassination
Published: October 14, 2020As the year 1968 dawned, the page one headlines of Wyoming’s and the nation’s newspapers reported that President Lyndon Johnson had resumed the bombing of North Vietnam,...
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Who gets to hunt Wyoming's elk? Tribal Hunting Rights, U.S. Law and the...
Published: September 29, 2020On July 13, 1895, a party of Bannock Indians awoke in their camp to find themselves surrounded by 27 armed white men. The Bannock party resembled a family reunion, with...
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The Buxton Case: An Anti-Immigrant Tragedy
Published: August 18, 2020Legislation aimed at immigrants may have contributed to the murder of the first Wyoming game warden killed in the line of duty.In 1899, nine years after Wyoming became a...
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Ed Cantrell, Rock Springs and Boom-time Crime
Published: July 28, 2020It was Old-West-style: A clean-up-the-town, fast-draw lawman acting to save his life. Or was it an in-the-trenches undercover drug cop, about to blow the whistle on small-town...
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Milward Simpson and the Death Penalty
Published: July 15, 2020On March 27, 1957, when Governor Milward L. Simpson commuted the death sentence of Herschel Clay “Tricky” Riggle, he did so because the Wyoming Constitution gave him that power....
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From Slaughter to Law: Wyoming Protects Big Game—Slowly
Published: June 28, 2020Most who know about the history of the American frontier are familiar with the demise of the buffalo. By the mid-1880s, herds that had once numbered in the millions on the Great...
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Sherman Coolidge: Arapaho Priest in a Changing World
Published: June 21, 2020When the Episcopal priest and Native rights activist Sherman Coolidge died in 1932, the Wyoming State Tribune’s obituary noted that the “solution of the Indian problem” had been...
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