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Who 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...
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1968: 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,...
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An Italian Painter in a Wyoming POW Camp
Published: November 2, 2020Three initials, three mysteries: L. DeRossi, V. Finotti, E. Tarquinio. These are the three signatures on 10 panels out of 17 murals at the former officers’ club of the World...
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Stephen Leek, Father of the Elk
Published: November 16, 2020Stephen Nelson Leek (1858–1943), a founder of Jackson, Wyo., was an early wildlife photographer. His nationally recognized images of starving elk helped establish the...
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'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...
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Beethoven's Birthday in Wyoming
Published: December 15, 2020Ludwig van Beethoven was baptized on Dec. 17, 1770, in Bonn, in what’s now Germany. December 2020, therefore, marks the 250th anniversary of his birth. Because of Covid-19,...
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Baseball, 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...
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Thurman 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...
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The Flight of the Utes
Published: February 23, 2021The talking lasted 12 hours. Several times during the day, the Ute negotiators returned to their camp; the soldiers could do little but wait. Each time negotiations resumed,...
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Pro-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...
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Black 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...
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The Miss Indian America Pageant in Sheridan, Wyoming
Published: June 17, 2021Lucy Yellowmule rode into history at the Sheridan WYO Rodeo on July 6, 1951. A young barrel racer from Wyola, Mont., she was a member of the Crow Nation, and a contestant for...
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'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...
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The Wyoming State Flag and the Women Who Made It Fly
Published: August 31, 2021A few people in Wyoming know the secret behind their beloved state flag. They will give a knowing smile, perhaps a chuckle, as they nod, yes—that bison wasn’t always hitched...
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Bub Meeks and a Wild Bunch Winchester
Published: October 27, 2021In the collection of the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River, Wyo., is a unique rifle, a lever-action Winchester Model 1894 carbine chambered for the .25/35...
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Lovejoy's Toy: Wyoming's First Car
Published: March 1, 2022The automobile age arrived in Wyoming almost unnoticed. While the Spanish-American War dominated headlines and editorial pages, Elmer Lovejoy was building Wyoming’s first car in...
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Spreading the Gospel: Lutheran Missionaries at Deer Creek, 1859-1864
Published: April 17, 2022Three young boys arrived at Wartburg Seminary near Dubuque, Iowa, with their Lutheran custodians late in 1864. Known by their baptismal first names of Gottfried, Paulus and...
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Indian Agent Thomas Twiss, Man of Two Worlds
Published: July 5, 2022Thomas S. Twiss had the kind of resume and political connections that made him ideal for appointment to a government position. Born in New York in 1802, he would be past 50 years...
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Milward Simpson and the Death Penalty
Milward Simpson and the Death Penalty Robin EverettJuly 15, 2020On March 27, 1957, when Gov. Milward L. Simpson commuted the death sentence of Herschel Clay “Tricky” Riggle, he did so because the...
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Milward Simpson and the Death Penalty
Milward Simpson and the Death Penalty Robin EverettJuly 15, 2020On March 27, 1957, when Gov. Milward L. Simpson commuted the death sentence of Herschel Clay “Tricky” Riggle, he did so because the...
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