Today In Wyoming's History

Alvah H. Unthank was a 19-year-old pioneer travelling the Oregon who died of Cholera at a spot near the Dave Johnson Power Plant outside Gle...

This spot along Wyoming State Highway 96 in Converse County, Wyoming has two historical markers, one for the Oregon Trail and another for...

Where Ft. Halleck was, from a great distance. This set of photographs attempts to record something from a very great distance, and wi...

Some Gave All: The Sundance, Wyoming Rest Stop Memorials. :   Memorials at the Sundance Wyoming Rest Stop. I usually don't p...

Some Gave All: Washakie County Pioneers' Memorial, Worland Wyoming This memorial in the Washakie County Wyoming Court...

   Grand Army of the Republic memorial, Casper Wyoming . We recently posted this item on the Civil War in Wyoming : Today In Wyomin...

Milton Sublette--The Lost Mountain Man .

Today is Christmas Day This day remains the most popular holiday in the Western World, and much of the rest of the world, in spite...

 Today is the day of the Christmas Vigil (Christmas Eve) in the Christian world.  Aðfangadagskvöld, the day when the 13th and the last Yule...

Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. 1620     The Mayflower voyagers went ashore for ...

1803 The Louisiana Purchase was completed as the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States during ceremonies in Ne...

1868  Crook County created out of portions of Albany and Laramie counties. 1869  Territorial Governor Campbell approved measures to ask...