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...
View ArticleWho 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...
View Article1968: 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,...
View Article'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...
View ArticleBaseball, 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...
View ArticleThurman 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...
View ArticlePro-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...
View ArticleBlack 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...
View Article'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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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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