Today In Wyoming's History

Painted Bricks: Tumble Inn, Powder River, Wyoming. :    Tumble Inn, Powder River, Wyoming.   As this institution is in the news, and as I kn...

Some Gave All: The Powder River Country, Braodus Montana : A lot of history in this region of Montana, and in the adjoining part of...

1860  Owen Wister, the author of The Virginian born in Philadelphia.  It is sometimes claimed that The Virginian was the first Western no...

1579  Francis Drake anchors in a harbor just north of present-day San Francisco, California, and claims the territory for Queen Elizabeth I...

1883  Cheyenne was lighted by electric lights.  Attribution. Wyoming State Historical Society. 1904  A stage play based on Owen Wister...