Today In Wyoming's History

Lex Anteinternet: Reconsidering Wounded Knee Medals of Honor. :  Reconsidering Wounded Knee Medals of Honor. This isn't the first time t...

  In the Apple TV series Masters of the Air , one of the characters is Maj. Gale "Buck" Cleven, who reports himself as being from ...

Sgt. Toy receiving the Medal of Honor in 1891.  Sgt. Toy was cited for "bravery while shooting Indians" at Wounded Knee.  He is kn...

1845 Texas admitted into the Union. While its borders would soon shrink, at first a small portion of Wyoming, previously claimed by Spain, a...

1776   The term "United States" was adopted by the second Continental Congress to be used instead of the "United Colonies....

1837         James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, born in Homer Illinois. 1870  Indians who raided a Kansas Pacific construction ...

1876  7th Cavalry departs Ft. Lincoln on campaign.  Family members gathered to watch them leave the post as the band played martial music.  ...