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Percy Metz: Prosecutor and Judge
Percy Metz was born under a lucky star. He may not have believed that during the morning of April 3, 1909, when, as the young and inexperienced Big Horn County Attorney, he was suddenly confronted with...
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The Utah War in Wyoming
Elizabeth Cumming, cultured, observant and intelligent, suffered from a frostbitten foot, which then swelled and burst. It was November 1857; she was on the trail with her politician husband and a...
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Eisenhower’s 1919 Road Trip and the Interstate Highway System
On Aug. 8, 1919, young Lt. Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived in Cheyenne with a long line of military cars, trucks and motorcycles. The Transcontinental Motor Truck Convoy entered the city on the...
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Coming to Wind River: the Eastern Shoshone Treaties of 1863 and 1868
Published: May 23, 2018In the 1860s, the U.S. government negotiated two treaties with the Eastern Shoshone people that resulted in their taking up a permanent home in Warm Valley—the valley of the Big...
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The Arapaho Arrive: Two Nations on One Reservation
Published: June 23, 2018In the spring of 1878, about 950 Northern Arapaho people arrived with an Army escort on the Eastern Shoshone Reservation in the Wind River Valley in central Wyoming Territory....
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Trouble at Lightning Creek: “A Stained Page in Wyoming’s History”
Published: July 30, 2018Copyright © 2018 by WyoHistory.orgJust before sunset, on Oct. 31, 1903, 18-year-old Hope Clear, an Oglala Sioux from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, dismounted from...
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The 1918 Flu: A Worldwide Epidemic Sweeps Wyoming
Published: September 24, 2018Though disease epidemics were common throughout America and the West in earlier times, the worst epidemic in terms of loss of human life came to Wyoming early in the 20th...
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Aven Nelson, Botanist and President of the University of Wyoming
Published: October 23, 2018When 28-year-old Aven Nelson arrived in Laramie, Wyo., on July 28, 1887, the University of Wyoming consisted of just one building, still under construction, on an arid plain...
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Fragmenting Tribal Lands: The Dawes Act of 1887
Published: October 30, 2018Treaties negotiated between the United States government and American Indians in 1851 , 1863 and 1868 created some boundaries: physical, setting aside separate lands for...
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When the Tribes Sold the Hot Springs
Published: December 3, 2018By the 1890s, the Eastern Shoshone Tribe had been living on its reservation in the Wind River Valley for more than two decades, under its treaty with U.S. government. The...
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The Tribes Sell Off More Land: The 1905 Agreement
Published: December 10, 2018At the turn of the last century, the fortunes of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes on the Shoshone Reservation in central Wyoming were reaching a low ebb....
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Holding on to Sovereignty: The Tribes Mix Old Forms with New
Published: February 5, 2019In the early decades of the 20th century, Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho people in Wyoming found new ways to keep old traditions alive. At the same time they settled...
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Native Rights to Wind River Water
Published: February 15, 2019Water can be scarce in arid Wyoming, but if the land is used lightly water is adequate. The water stored in winter snows in the mountains supports abundant game in the...
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Mike Sullivan, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland
Published: March 4, 2019Editors’ note: Four years after he finished his second term as governor of Wyoming, Casper attorney Mike Sullivan was named U.S. ambassador to Ireland by President Bill Clinton....
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Wyoming Parkitecture
Published: March 18, 2019In 1904, when the Old Faithful Inn opened in Yellowstone National Park, it was immediately seen as a unique treasure of a building: rustic and luxurious, breathtaking yet...
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The President Arthur Expedition: The Fishing Trip That Helped Save Yellowstone
Published: April 29, 2019A presidential fishing trip that began in Green River, Wyoming Territory, late in the 1800s helped save Yellowstone National Park.By 1883, 11 years after Yellowstone was...
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A History of the Wyoming Capitol
Published: June 4, 2019The Wyoming Capitol has stood as a symbol of the spirit of the people of Wyoming for well over a century. Through struggles small and large, the state has persevered and thrived....
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Who Cast the First Vote?
Published: July 28, 2019Louisa Swain of Laramie, about 70 years old, cast the first documented vote by a woman in Wyoming on September 6, 1870. According to the Laramie and Cheyenne newspapers, Swain...
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Could Women of Color Vote in the 1870 election?
Published: July 29, 2019Cheyenne Daily Leader, September 6, 1870 p1 c 1,It appears that there would have been no legal bars to non-white women who were over 21 years old and U.S.citizens voting in...
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How Many Women Voted in Wyoming's Earliest Elections?
Published: July 29, 2019This is a great question, but one that will probably never be accurately answered.Estimates can be made using two methods:1. Compiling numbers based upon the numbers of women...
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