1888 John Merritt and C.W. Eads established the town of Casper. Their initial site would be at the present day intersection of McKinley and A Street and anticipated the arrival of the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley
Railroad (Burlington Northern Railroad) the following week.. Present day Eadsville, once an independent town but now part of Casper, is named after Eads. Attribution: On This Day.
Casper in 1890.
1915 Hoyt Hall at the University of Wyoming named for John Hoyt, UW's first president and a former territorial governor. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1918 A total eclipse of the sun was experienced in Southwest Wyoming, as well as in Denver Colorado.
1974 Suddenly a pop icon years after his death, due to the movie
"Jeremiah Johnson", Mexican War veteran, frontiersman, trapper and
former Cody Sheriff John "Liver Eating" Johnston is re-interred at the Cody Cemetery. Robert Redford, who had played him in the film, was on hand. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
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