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Wyoming to the White House: Dick Cheney’s Life in Politics
Donald Rumsfeld looked skeptically across his White House desk at the graduate student and congressional fellow from Wyoming. It was 1969, and Rumsfeld was the newly appointed head of the Office of...
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Tracy McCraken: From a $3,000 Loan to a Newspaper Empire
When Tracy McCraken borrowed $3,000 in June 1926 to buy the Wyoming Eagle newspaper in Cheyenne, it was the best financial move he ever made. The young journalist gradually bought a chain of papers...
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John E. Osborne and the Logjammed Politics of 1893
In December 1892, a tug-of-war between Wyoming Democrats and Republicans resulted in a tense standoff in the governor’s office. Two men claimed to be the state’s top official. The deep-seated conflict...
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Kathy Karpan: A Life in Law and Politics
The young woman in the plaid jumper could hardly contain her excitement as she stood in a crowd outside the University of Wyoming field house after President John F. Kennedy spoke there in late...
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Hard Times and Conservation: the CCC in Wyoming
Red Fenwick couldn't believe what he saw in 1933 when he met the train that carried a motley group of Bronx youth to Canyon Junction in Yellowstone National Park."It was the sorriest assemblage of...
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The Deadly Blackwater Fire
Fifty years after witnessing one of the deadliest forest fires in the nation's history, Bob Johnstone could still remember the screams of the young men at Blackwater Creek about 35 miles west of Cody,...
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Booze, Cops, and Bootleggers: Enforcing Prohibition in Central Wyoming
Prohibition was on its last legs in Wyoming when top public officials—Casper’s mayor and police chief and the Natrona County Sheriff—were accused of corruption. The men who ran the town and the county,...
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Making a Home in Empire, Wyo.
The plains of Wyoming and Nebraska are dotted with old cemeteries hidden in hay meadows or on vacant plots between county roads slicing the countryside in perfect, straight lines. Interred in the...
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E. T. Payton: Muckraker, Mental Patient and Advocate for the Mentally Ill
Edward T. Payton, a Wyoming reporter, editor and tireless advocate for the mentally ill is now nearly forgotten. During his lifetime, however, he published two Wyoming newspapers, promoted newspapers...
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Establishing Public TV in Wyoming
Building a public television network is usually a straightforward affair. You raise money, erect transmission towers, build a broadcasting studio and flip a switch. It's a formula that works. But...
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The Sagebrush Philosopher: Merris Barrow and Bill Barlow’s Budget
What does an editor reveal about himself by offering 100-year subscriptions to his brand-new weekly newspaper? That he has a sense of humor? Superhuman energy? Grandiose plans? Perhaps all three.Merris...
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Louise Graf, Jury Foreman and Green River Citizen
In May 1950, Louise Spinner Graf served as foreman of a jury in a murder trial in Green River, Wyo.—the first jury in Wyoming to include women since the early 1870s, when territorial courts briefly...
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“’Those Damn Women:’ Louise Graf and Women on Wyoming Juries
On May 9, 1950, a court in Green River, Wyo. found Otto Long guilty of second-degree murder. Long's attorney, Walter Muir Sr., complained, "I'd never have lost if it hadn't been for those damn women on...
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Alice Morris: Mapping Yellowstone’s Trails
Mrs. Robert C. Morris of New York is an authority on Western fishing. ... In the Winter she lives on Fifth Avenue, and goes to the opera, and rides in her limousine, and does the other things that city...
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Bombardier Conservationist: Tom Bell and the High Country News
In 1973 in Lander, Wyo., a father faced a difficult choice: Buy rubber boots to get his daughter through the Wyoming snows? Or continue pouring family funds into his newspaper and its quixotic...
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Battling Monopoly: Northern Utilities and the Casper Star-Tribune
Some readers may have thought the Casper Star-Tribune's front-page headline on April 1, 1984, was just an April Fool's prank: "Gas customers pay extra $5.8 million for nothing." It sounded far-fetched,...
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Life on the Home Front: Wyoming During World War I
In late November 1917, seven months after the United States entered World War I, a high school teacher in Powell, Wyo., was asked to resign because she was a pacifist. The Nov. 22, 1917, Powell Leader...
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‘Noted Beauty Coming:’ Suffragist Campaigns Across Wyoming
“Noted beauty coming,” declared the Laramie Republican in its October 1916 headline advancing Inez Milholland’s appearance in Cheyenne.Accustomed to having her good looks noticed before her formidable...
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Wyoming’s Long-lived Bucking Horse
Wyoming’s well-known bucking-horse-and-rider logo has changed many times since soldiers first used it on airplanes, arms and equipment in World War I France. Nor were all its versions modeled on the...
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Establishing Public TV in Wyoming
Building a public television network is usually a straightforward affair. You raise money, erect transmission towers, build a broadcasting studio and flip a switch. It's a formula that works. But...
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