Today In Wyoming's History

 

Monument to oil production at the Amoco Parkway in Casper, Wyoming.  The Parkway is within the confines of the former Standard Oil Refinery....

1803  Louisiana Purchase ratified. 1889  Oil discovered near Douglas. 1906  Southeast Wyoming hit by a three day blizzard. 1913  The B...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month (Linked in from Lex Anteinternet on October 1, 2017). Helene Ethel Fairbanks ...

1813  Battle of the Medina River at which Royalist forces defeat Mexican-American Republican Guetierrez-Magee Expedition south of San Anton...

1876  7th Cavalry departs Ft. Lincoln on campaign.  Family members gathered to watch them leave the post as the band played martial music.  ...

1872  Bill Cody tracked down three Indians committing "depredations" and killed them in the ensuing engagement near North Platte, ...

1836  Texas declared independence from Mexico. 1836  The city of Wyoming Illinois founded by General Samuel Thomas. 1861  Congress ...