Today In Wyoming's History

This post, which appears on one of companion blogs, has just been added here as a Sidebar (see the features off to the left hand margin of ...

 Casper Journal:  “The Great Call Up- Wyoming Moves to the Border, 1916” The early morning hours before dawn on March 9, 1916 in the sleep...

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...

1619     Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist cavalry commander in the English Civil War, born.  He returned England with the restoration o...

1866   Colonel Henry B. Carrington and Captain William J. Fetterman surrounded by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors and engaged them briefly, bef...

1867  Fifty three cans of cranberries reported stored at Fort Bridger.  Attribution, Wyoming State Historical Association calendar. 18...

November is Aviation History Month. November 27, 2017 National Aviation History Month Somehow I managed to miss the...

Today is Halloween 1782  A Court established at Trenton, New Jersey that Pennsylvania owned the Wyoming Valley but that the claims ...