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The Grave of Ephraim Brown
Out of nearly 200 people who died from murder or other homicides on the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s, only one lies in a grave with a known location. Missourian Ephraim Brown, a leading figure on a...
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Moon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918
In the summer of 1878, William O. “Billy” Owen was working with a surveying crew high in the Medicine Bow Mountains, about 36 miles west of Laramie, Wyoming Territory. “Over that vast forest,” he later...
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The Grave of Daniel Lantz
The National Road, the first federally sponsored highway, enters Indiana just east of the town of Richmond, passes directly through it and heads for Centerville six miles west. From there it continues...
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Conservation politics: ‘Triple A’ Anderson and the Yellowstone Forest Reserve
A.A. Anderson’s favorite self-description was “artist-hunter.” In his autobiography he wrote, “The two ruling passions of my life have always been hunting and painting.” But Anderson, who founded the...
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Simpson’s Hollow, flash point in the Utah War
On Oct. 5, 1857, a band of Mormon militia attacked U.S. Army supply wagons in three different places in what’s now southwest Wyoming, burning 76 wagons altogether and running off a great deal of...
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Beaver Dick Leigh, Mountain Man of the Tetons
The pack train moved slowly through the remaining snowdrifts of late spring in the Tetons, heading for the mountain valley ahead. The buckskin horses were led by a tall-for-his-time trapper with thick...
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The Royal Hunt, 1913: Prince Albert and Buffalo Bill
In late September 1913, a hunting party made its way up the North Fork of the Shoshone River, north of the hunting lodge at Pahaska Tepee just east of of Yellowstone National Park. In some ways it must...
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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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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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Carrie Burton Overton, First African-American Female Student at UW
Carrie Burton (1888-1975) prospered despite the odds stacked against her as a young African-American woman growing up in Laramie, Wyo. She entered the University of Wyoming in 1903 at the age of...
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June Downey: Scientist, Scholar and Poet
Published: February 8, 2018June Etta Downey, longtime professor of psychology at the University of Wyoming in the early 20th century, loved science, scholarship and creative pursuits with equal fervor....
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An Emperor Crosses Wyoming, 1876
Published: February 24, 2018With another British royal wedding slated for May 2018, many observers have remarked on the unusual interest these events seem to hold for Americans. They say it seems...
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Batiste Gamara, an Italian Immigrant who Mined Wyoming Coal
Published: April 11, 2018On Nov. 10, 1887, during the reign of Umberto I as the second king of the unified Italy, a farmer, Battista Gamarra, stepped into the town hall to register the birth of his...
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Alpine Lives of Ancient People: High-mountain Archeology in Wyoming
Published: April 28, 2018In recent years, melting ice and mountain fires have revealed ancient human presence at elevations above 8,000 feet in northwestern Wyoming. Findings of archaeologists over the...
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The Mountain Shoshone
Published: May 9, 2018Recent discoveries show ancient peoples lived in the mountains of what’s now northwest Wyoming, probably in significant numbers. Some or many of these people were most likely...
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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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Touring the Reservations: the 1913 American Indian Citizenship Expedition
Published: August 19, 2018By the early decades of the 20thcentury, memories of rougher times in the American West were already beginning to fade from recent memory. The gilded age of rich...
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Finis Mitchell, Mountaineer
Published: August 24, 2018In the summer of 1952, Finis Mitchell was hiking alone in the northern Wind River Mountains in western Wyoming. Descending to a nameless lake in the Fremont River gorge, a...
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