1807 President Jefferson exposed a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.
1877 Sergeant William B. Lewis, Company B, 3d U.S. Cavalry. Place, engaged in an action at Bluff Station, Wyo. for which he won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Sgt. Lewis lived until 1901, and is buried in New Rochelle, New York.
This is another one of these Indian Wars locations that I am unfamiliar with. Given the name, it was likely a station on the Oregon Trail, but I don't know that. The Army named many small posts on the trail "stations".
1879 Dull Knife knife's band, having escaped Ft. Robinson is attacked and sustains severe losses in Nebraska. Dull Knife himself escapes, but the attack crushes the bands attempt to return to the Powder River country.
1885 Crook County organized. The county is named for Gen. Crook, a serving and significant general in the Indian Wars.
1917 President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to the war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory.".
1921 The legislature legalized prize fighting. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1949 The Reverend John Roberts, a significant Episcopal churchman on the Wind River Reservation, died.
1992 Mark Hopkinson executed for homocide.
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