Today In Wyoming's History

1839  Diplomats from Texas arrive in Mexico City with portfolios to negotiate for peace.  Attribution:  On This Day. 1869  The Territorial...

Today is Wyoming Day 1838   Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar inaugurated the second president of the Republic of Texas.  Attribution:  On This D...

1833  Thomas Moonlight was born in Forfarshire, Scotland. He was appointed Territorial Governor of Wyoming in1886. 1835  Delegates gath...

1836     Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas. 1866  Fort John Buford was renamed Fort Sanders.  Attribution:  O...

1814  Esther Hobart Morris, nee McQuigg, born in Tioga County, New York. 1846  DeForest Richards, Governor from 1899-1903, born in Wilcox ...

1866 Sioux warriors drove off a herd of livestock (175 horses and mules of the 18th Infantry Regiment) at Ft. Phil Kearney, with soldiers gi...

1834  William Sublette and William Anderson arrive at "Laramee's Fork", named for the late Jacque LaRamie, a trapper who had ...

1836  A convention approved the Texas Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Attribution:  On This Day. 1837  The United States sen...

1847 General Santa Anna surrounds the outnumbered forces of U.S. General Zachary Taylor at the Angostura Pass in Mexico and demands an im...

1836  David Crockett and his party of fourteen "Tennessee Mounted Volunteers" arrived in San Antonio, Texas. 1851  James M. Ril...