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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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Ernest Hemingway in Wyoming
Published: October 1, 2018The Wyoming story of American novelist Ernest Hemingway began when he sought solace, seclusion and beauty near Yellowstone National Park. Its chapters span the entirety of his...
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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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John Wesley Powell: Explorer, Thinker, Scientist and Bureaucrat
Published: December 26, 2018On a rocky precipice above the Green River in present east central Utah, one man struggled to save another from falling hundreds of feet. Suspended by a pair of long...
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Photographer on the Pitchfork: Charles Belden's Version of the West
Published: December 31, 2018“If a picture doesn’t tell a story,” photographer Charles Belden told his granddaughter, “it’s not worth taking.” His three decades of images told the story of Wyoming...
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Managing Game on the Wind River Reservation
Published: January 22, 2019Elk, deer, moose, mule deer, bighorn sheep, pronghorn and other wild ungulates that migrate freely across Wyoming’s vast landscapes also cross more than two million acres of...
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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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Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain: Celebrated and Controversial Landmark
Published: April 10, 2019The Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark is located at an elevation of 9,642 feet near the crest of the Bighorn Mountains of north central Wyoming. It...
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From Wind River to Carlisle: Indian Boarding Schools in Wyoming and the Nation
Published: May 28, 2019Sharp Nose was a sub-chief of the Northern Arapaho tribe during the tumultuous period after the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, when the subdued tribes were pushed onto...
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Breaking a Stereotype: Black Rancher Alonzo Stepp
Published: June 17, 2019Alonzo Stepp grew up in Kentucky, where he pursued a classical education. A trip to Wyoming with a friend when he was 19 convinced him to follow his true passion: ranching in...
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High School Hair Wars: 1960s Casper board suspends boy's education
Published: July 1, 2019In September 1967, a ninth-grade boy at Dean Morgan Junior High School in Casper, Wyo. was suspended for refusing to cut his hair to the length required by the Casper-Midwest...
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A Stuntman's Jump: Parachutist Stranded for Days on Devils Tower
Published: July 23, 2019In October 1941, when Hitler ruled nearly all of Europe and Pearl Harbor was still two months away, heads turned from a raging World War to Wyoming. A 29-year-old daredevil,...
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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, 2019It 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 Wyoming after the passage of the Women's Suffrage...
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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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