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The Old West’s Female Champion: Caroline Lockhart and Wyoming’s Cowboy Heritage
Lockhart, Caroline biography Caroline Lockhart wrote a handful of novels about Wyoming in the early 20th century. They made her famous and rich, and they hold up well today. At the same time, she was...
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Industry, Politics and Power: the Union Pacific in Wyoming
Union Pacific in Wyoming, The The construction of the Union Pacific in 1868 gave rise to the towns, geography of settlement and the economy of new Wyoming Territory in 1869. Obstacles to construction...
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Peace, War, Land and a Funeral: The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
Fort Laramie Treaty 1868 In March 1866, when whites and Indians together at Fort Laramie mourned the death of Mni Akuwin, daughter of Spotted Tail, chief of the Brulé Lakota, a colonel at the post...
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Francis E. Warren: A Massachusetts Farm Boy Who Changed Wyoming
Warren, Francis E., biographical essay Businessman, family man, territorial and state governor, U.S. Senator: Francis E. Warren succeeded in all of these roles, but he is best known for long service...
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The Black 14: Race, Politics, Religion and Wyoming Football
Black 14, the In October 1969, University of Wyoming Head Coach Lloyd Eaton dismissed 14 black football players from his team when they showed up at his office wearing black armbands over their street...
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The Dull Knife Fight, 1876: Troops attack a Cheyenne village on the Red Fork...
Dull Knife Fight, 1876 Red Fork Battle, 1876 In November 1876, about 700 cavalry and 400 Indian scouts led by Col. Ranald Mackenzie, burned the main village of the Northern Cheyenne to the ground near...
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Right Choice, Wrong Reasons: Wyoming Women Win the Right to Vote
Woman suffrage in Wyoming Votes for Wyoming Women In the fall of 1869, lawmakers in Wyoming’s first territorial legislature passed a bill allowing women the right to vote. The governor signed the bill...
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Post, Amalia, women’s rights activist In 1870, Amalia Post of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, became one of the first women to serve on a jury in the United States. Soon, she began advocating for women’s...
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Thunder under the House: One Family and the Hanna Mine Disasters
Hanna Mine Disasters, One Family’s Story Mary Hughes was just 17 years old in 1908 when the No. 1 Mine exploded twice in one day—and for the second time in five years—in Hanna, Wyo. Her story shows...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Matthew Shepard
Shepard, Matthew, Legacy of Matthew Shepard Foundation Executive Director Jason Marsden was working as a Casper Star-Tribune reporter in October 1998 when his friend Matt Shepard was murdered. In this...
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Boom, Bust and After: Life in the Salt Creek Oil Field
Salt Creek Oil Field Prospectors first struck oil in the Salt Creek Oil Field in northern Natrona County, Wyo. late in the 1880s. The first gusher came in in 1908. The subsequent boom lasted until the...
View ArticleThe First Wyoming: What’s in a name?
Wyoming, origins of name Wyoming gets its name from a green valley in northeast Pennsylvania originally purchased from the Iroquois by a Connecticut land company. An Ohio congressman in 1865 first...
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Romancing the West: Dude Ranching in Wyoming
Dude ranching, history of in Wyoming Early Wyoming was seen as a hardscrabble place. But after 1900, dude ranches showed off Wyoming’s mountain scenery, fishing, hunting and hospitality, and thanks to...
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The Killing Spree that Transfixed a Nation: Charles Starkweather and Caril...
Starkweather, Charles Fugate, Caril In January 1958, teenagers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate went on a 10-victim killing spree that began in Nebraska and ended near Douglas, Wyo., after a...
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The Muries: Wilderness Leaders in Wyoming
Murie Family, the: Wilderness Leaders in Wyoming Murie, Olaus Murie, Mardy Murie, Adolph Murie, Louise Mardy, Olaus, Adolph and Louise Murie shared a passion for wild places from early days in Alaska...
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Calamity Jane: Heroine of the West or Ordinary Woman?
Jane, Calamity Canary, Martha Jane Was she a hard-drinking, swashbuckling mule skinner and Indian fighter? Or an alcoholic prostitute, stuck in menial jobs in a life both dreary and mundane? Calamity...
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New Perspectives on the Fetterman Fight
Fetterman Fight Fetterman Massacre Near Fort Phil Kearny in December 1866 in what’s now northern Wyoming, Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors ambushed and killed Capt. William Fetterman and his entire...
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