Today In Wyoming's History

Lex Anteinternet: Reconsidering Wounded Knee Medals of Honor. :  Reconsidering Wounded Knee Medals of Honor. This isn't the first time t...

  I've traveled it countless times myself, that stretch of highway between Laramie and Ft. Collins. It's not a great road. Thursday,...

The Albany County Commissioners have voted to change the name of Swastika Lake, in the Medicine Bow National Forest, to Samuel H. Knight Lak...

 A bill to make it more difficult to designate historical sites has been introduced in the legislature. HOUSE BILL NO. HB0281 Local governme...

A bill has been introduced in the legislature to recognize former Governor and Senator Lester Hunt.  Given Dr. Hunt's historic place in ...

Arapaho woman (Hisei), late 19th Century. Today In Wyoming's History: Wyoming has 43 federal places with 'squaw' in the ... :   ...

Lex Anteinternet: Juneteenth. What the new Federal Holiday Commemor... :  Juneteenth. What the new Federal Holiday Commemorates Today is a ...

Lex Anteinternet: Juneteenth :  Juneteenth This passed Congress earlier this week, and was signed into law today.  Unusually, the impact is ...

April 8:  Girls high school softball comes to Casper.  

1825  Wyoming's first delegate to Congress, Stephen F. Nuckolls, born in Grayson County, Virginia.  Attribution:  On This Day. 1918   ...

1778  The Wyoming Independent Company establishes Camp Westmoreland near Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, in the Wyoming Valley. 1876  Frank E...

1860  Fenimore Chatterton, born in Oswego County, New York. He was a businessman, politician and lawyer who had relocated to Sheridan and ...

1866 Negotiations between US and Sioux representatives took place at Ft. Phil Kearny.  Attribution:  On This Day.  1887  Construction o...

1847  Mormon emigrants in Brigham Young's wagon train reached the Platte River near the present location of Casper.  Attribution:  On T...