Tuesday, July 9, 2013

July 9

1866 Colonel Henry B. Carrington leaves Fort Reno for Piney Creek to select the site for what became Ft. Phil Kearny.  Attribution:  On This Day.

1915  The last stage robbery in the United States occurred in Yellowstone National Park, seeing financier Bernard amongst the passengers robbed.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

1920  July 9, 1920
Jackson Lake Dam and spillway on the Snake River near Moran, Wyoming.  July 9, 1920

1934  Sheridan's first radio station commences operation.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

1945   Cheyenne was proclaimed to be "a City of the First Class".

1982  Madison Museum, in Yellowstone National Park, added to the National Register of Historic Places.

1982  Obsidian Cliff Kiosk in Park County added to the National Register of Historic Places.  

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