Today In Wyoming's History

Towns and Nature: Gillette, WY: 1907 CB&Q Roundhouse and Water Tower : ( Satellite , the roundhouse was removed by 1970. There are no ob...

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

1854   Edward Gillette was born in New Haven, Connecticut.  He graduated from the Yale Scientific School in 1876 and took a job with the U.S...

Today is Independence Day. 1776  Congress passed a declaration of independence from the United Kingdom, which stated: On this date i...

Today is Cinco de Mayo, I.E., The 5th of May.  The day, celebrating  the first battle of La Puebla in 1862 in which Mexican forces defeated...

1799   Jedediah Smith, mountain man and discoverer of South Pass, born in Bainbridge, New York. .  Attribution.  Wyoming State Historical So...