Today In Wyoming's History

1716   Martín de Alarcón, founder of San Antonio, appointed governor of Texas.  Attribution:  On This Day. 1854 The poem "The Charg...

1835.  Texas authorizes the Texas Rangers. 1874.  Joseph F. Glidden received his patent for barbed wire. Barbed wire changed the natu...

1774         Meriwether Lewis born. 1848  Congress created the Oregon Territory, which included parts of Wyoming. Unlike the later stat...

1865  Indian raid on stage station on Green River drives off stock. 1872  Frank Wolcott, who would later be strongly associated with th...

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...

1818   U.S. Senate ratified the Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border. 1851  Clarence D. Clark born in Sandy Creek...

1890  A train wreck occurred near Hilliard but there were no serious injuries.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society. 1902  W...