Today In Wyoming's History

1620   One week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth harbor in present-day Massachusetts, construction of the first permanent European s...

1868  Crook County created out of portions of Albany and Laramie counties. 1869  Territorial Governor Campbell approved measures to ask...

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

1812  Robert Stuart and a small party of Astorians crossed South Pass, making them the first Euro-Americans to do so.  Attribution:  Wyomi...

1854 Reciprocity Treaty between the US and Canada comes into effect. 1868 Vigilantes hanged three members of the Asa Moore Gang in Bos...

1809         Meriwether Lewis, soldier, explorer, dies by his own hand at age 39.  Lewis had performed heroically with the Corps of Discove...