Today In Wyoming's History

Bells of Balangiga to depart Gen. Jacob Smith inspects the ruins of Balangiga a few weeks after the battle there. The Bells ...

Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail, 1868-1887 This post is somewhat off topic here, but this is a marker for the Cheyen...

1866   Colonel Henry B. Carrington and Captain William J. Fetterman surrounded by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors and engaged them briefly, bef...

1762   France ceded to Spain all lands west of the Mississippi. 1866  Nelson Story and his hands arrive in the Gallitin Valley thereby com...

1542  New laws passed in Spain giving protection against the enslavement of Indians in America. 1813  One of the two dates of death giv...

1759  Comanches ( branch of the Shoshone tribe), Yaceales, and Tawakonis, defeated a Spanish force under Diego Ortiz Parilla on the Red Riv...

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

Today is Canada Day It may seem odd to note this, but Wyoming has a strong connection with Canada.  Some of the state's early signi...