Today In Wyoming's History

Something I really should have footnoted in this item from the other day: Today In Wyoming's History: Wyoming Myths. Sacagawea : Mural ...

Okay, we recently discussed Sacagawea and, in that context, discussed Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.  Surely we have this covered? Well, mostly....

Mural in the Montana State House by Edgar Paxson depicting Sacagawea and the Corps of Discovery in Montana.  Sacagawea's actual appearan...

These are admittedly not Wyoming photographs, but from southeastern Montana.  When I stopped at this location one afternoon in February I...

 Today is the day of the Christmas Vigil (Christmas Eve) in the Christian world.  Aðfangadagskvöld, the day when the 13th and the last Yule...

1803 The Louisiana Purchase was completed as the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States during ceremonies in Ne...

1806  Pike's Peak Colorado observed by Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike during an expedition to locate the source of the Mississippi. ...

1805  The Corps of Discovery reached the Pacific Ocean. 1835  Texas' Declaration of November 7, 1835 adopted by the Consultation at S...