April 20

1890  The last soldiers leave Ft. Laramie.  Attribution:  On This Day.

1903  Rawlins Police Lieutenant Kling and Officer John Baxter killed responding to a shots fired at a store.  The shots were fired by the store owner, who had terrorized his neighbors and police and who setup an ambush for the officers. The perpeatrator received a sentence of four years for manslaughter, to the court must of thought he was suffering from a mental disability.

1914  Colorado National Guard strikes miners camp during the Ludlow strike, resulting in numerous miner deaths.

1916   Casper Daily Press for April 20, 1916
 

1919  A pipeline was completed between Lost Soldier and the site of the former Ft. Fred Steele. Ft. Fred Steele was a railhead on the Union Pacific Railroad at this time. Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

1920  Caroline Lockhart, attorney Ernest J. Goppert, Sr. Princeton educated dude rancher Irving H. “Larry” Larom, Sid Eldred,Clarence Williams and William Loewert meet to organize the Cody Stampede rodeo.  The use of the term "rodeo" was intentionally avoided, as the group thought it sounded too much like a dude word, which was some what ironic as at least Lockhart and Larom were transplants who had profited from Western romanticism.  Goppert was an attorney who would practice in Cody for many decades and who was active in Cody affairs. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.

1939  Robert Frost visited the University of Wyoming.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

1943  Two pilots from Fremont County decorated.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.