How To Use This Site




How To Use This Site


This blog was updated on a daily basis for about two years, with those daily entries ceasing on December 31, 2013. The blog is still active, however, and we hope that people stopping in, who find something lacking, will add to the daily entries.

The blog still receives new posts as well, but now it receives them on items of Wyoming history. That has always been a feature of the blog, but Wyoming's history is rich and there are many items that are not fully covered here, if covered at all. Over time, we hope to remedy that.

You can obtain an entire month's listings by hitting on the appropriate month below, or an individual day by hitting on that calendar date.
Use 2013 for the search date, as that's the day regular dates were established and fixed.

Alternatively, the months are listed immediately below, with the individual days appearing backwards (oldest first).

We hope you enjoy this site.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

April 24

Today is Administrative Professionals Day for 2013.

1800     Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress.

1886  A law proposed to regulate corsets to prevent excessive tightening.  Attribution  Wyoming State Historical Society.

1898  Spain declared war on the United States.

1903  Theodore Roosevelt dedicated a new stone archway at the entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.

1916   The Casper Daily Press for April 24, 1916.
 
And the train robberies come to an end.

William Carlyle, the robber, gave himself up rather than resort to violence.  Probably more misdirected than anything, he converted to Catholicism while in the penitentiary and became a model citizen.


1943  John Osborne, Wyoming's governor from 1893 to 1895, died.

1944 Jim Geringer born.  Geringer, a mechanical engineer who was also a Wheatland farmer, was Governor from 1995 to 2003.

1973  Inyan Kara added to the National Registry of Historic Places.

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