Today In Wyoming's History

Monument to oil production at the Amoco Parkway in Casper, Wyoming.  The Parkway is within the confines of the former Standard Oil Refinery....

Rock Springs has several coal related monuments and items on a park downtown located where it's old classic railroad depot is located...

A monument, in Rock Springs, Wyoming, to the first mine in that district. The mine was, not too surprisingly, a Union Pacific mine. Sta...

1836 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.  This does not mean that Spain was in control of Mexico until 1836, but rather that it r...

1875  Strike at Rock Springs mines, the first for that location, settled.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society. 1892  John E. O...