Updates for 2026.

 

January 31, 1946:  United Flight 14 crashed into Elk Mountain.

February 5, 1876.  Update on Doc Holliday in Cheyenne.

February 7, 1876.  Colorado gives women the right to vote.

Last edition:

Updates, 2025.

Updates, 2025.

February 20, 1900.  Death of Chief Washakie.

July 2, 1975.  Dead Savage Spring.

August 14, 1945.  New material added on VJ Day.

August 27, 1915.  The Pershing tragedy.

August 31, 1915.  Casper becomes a first class city.

September 7, 1925.  Nellie Tayloe Ross visited Casper for Labor Day.

November 3, 1875.  Grant's cabinet meets to consider how to deal with Native Americans in the Rocky Mountain Region.

November 3, 1945.  Game Wardens killed.

November 4, 1875.  Gov. Campbell issues a Thanksgiving Proclamation.

November 10, 2025.  Death of Susan Anderson.

November 13, 2025.  Massive Wyoming power outage.

November 14, 1915  Great Americans.

November 22, 2025.  Josh Allen's number retired.

December 7, 1875.  State of the Union Address.

December 14, 1915.  Petition delivered.

December 16, 1945.  Sinclair raises wages.

Entry Updates, 2024.

January 19, 2024.  End of Sports Illustrated.

January 20, 1924.  Sheridan County Sheriff's removal.

January 24, 1924.  Teapot Dome Scandal breaks.

January 24, 1944.  Rendering skunk fat.

January 28, 1924.  Teapot Dome Scandal

January 28, 1944.  Cold War warning.

January 28, 2014.  Hill decision and Barack Obama State of the Union address.

February 2, 1924.  Gun battle at Lysite and the Teapot Dome Scandal.

February 5, 1924.  Additional details on the death of Carey, update on Wilson.

February 8, 1924.  The Teapot Dome Scandal.

February 9, 1944  Gambling and vice in Casper.

February 10, 1944.  Troops at Ft. F.E. Warren.

February 12, 2024. State of the State and State of the Judiciary.

February 13, 1924.  Police corruption in Casper.

February 16, 1944.  Senator Mahoney predicts early end to war.

March 8, 2024.  State of the Union address.

March 21, 1874.  Home On The Range published.

March 31, 1924. Closing rooming houses in the Sandbar and fishing.

April 28, 1914.  Colorado Coalfield War.

April 29, 1924.  Townsend Building Fire.

May 16, 1924  Harry Yount passes.

May 31, 2024 Midwest High School's 100th Class

June 1, 1914.  NCHS graduating class and its notable members.

June 17, 1944. B-24 crashes on Casper Mountain.

July 20, 1874.  Custer enters Wyoming Territory with the Black Hills Expedition.

July 28, 1914.  Start of World War One.

December 7, 1874 and 1909.  State of the Union addresses.

December 18, 1890.  No booze for UW faculty.

Entry Updates, 2023

January 2:  2022, Inaugurations.

February 27, 1973.  Wounded Knee.

March 29, 1943.  Rationing.

March 29, 1973.  Expanded entry on Vietnam, U.S. Price controls.

April 14, 1923. The KKK visits Casper Churches.

June 5, 1923.  North Casper to be incorporated into Casper.

June 23, 1923.  Somewhere West of Laramie.

June 25, 1923.  Harding in Cheyenne and Laramie, KKK in Glenrock.

July 16, 1923.  Special legislative session convenes.

July 19, 1923.  Special legislative session ends.

July 23, 1923.  Flooding in Natrona County.

July 25, 1923.  Flooding at Thermopolis.

July 27, 1923.  Casper to become Tulsa.

August 2, 1923.  Death of Warren G. Harding.

August 29, 1923.  Peaks in Teton's scaled.

September 22, 1923.  Henning Hotel robbed.

September 27, 1923.  Cole Creek railroad disaster updated.

October 12, 1973  President Nixon authorizes an act that will lead to the Arab Oil Embargo.

October 18, 1973.  Oil embargo nears.

October 19, 1973.  Oil embargo spreads.\

November 11, 1943. Girl Scouts at Heart Mountain.

November 22, 1963.  Kennedy's assassination.

November 18, 2023.  Pine Ridge state of emergency.

November 27, 1923.  Shoe store.

Today In Wyoming's History: 2023 Wyoming Legislature. Anti Historical Site Bill.

This bill:

Today In Wyoming's History: 2023 Wyoming Legislature. Anti Historical Site Bill.:  

2023 Wyoming Legislature. Anti Historical Site Bill.

 A bill to make it more difficult to designate historical sites has been introduced in the legislature.

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0281

Local government approval for historic site designations.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Storer

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to state historic sites; requiring the board of land commissioners to provide notice and to obtain consent from counties, cities or towns before making a historic site designation as specified; providing requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.  W.S. 36‑8‑108 is created to read:

36‑8‑108.  Designation of state historic sites; requirements.

After designation by the legislature but before any official designation is made for a state historical site when the property to be designated belongs to a county, city or town, the board of land commissioners shall obtain consent from the board of county commissioners or the local governing body of the city or town where the proposed state historical site is located. The board of county commissioners or the local governing body of a city or town shall be given not less than thirty (30) days written notice before the site is designated as a state historic site.  After notice is given and the notice period has passed, if no objection is made, consent to the designation of the historic site shall be presumed. 

Section 2.  This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

As this has a single sponsor, it likely will go nowhere, but its purpose is hard to understand.  Something being designated a historical site, contrary to widespread popular belief, doesn't commit private parties to anything.

Failed to make committee consideration, and therefore is dead for the session.

Updates, October-December, 2022.

Arapahoe woman Ft. Washakie, Wyo, 1920-1930.  "Denver Public Library Special Collections"

October 9, 1922.  Bureau of Indian Affairs gives permission for Native American actors from Wind River to act.

November 3, 1942.  The Election of 1942.

November 7, 1922.  The Election of 1922.

November 24, 1922. The Colorado River Compact.

December 24, 1922.  Death of Sgt. John Martin.

Updates for July-August, 2022

July 6, 1922.  Casper and the Petroleum Industry.

July 21, 1922.  Trigger law announcement.

July 29, 2022.  Retirement of Pete Williams.

August 13, 1922.  Newspapers added.

August 15, 1922.  Newspaper added.

August 16, 2022.  Primary Election.

August 23, 1942.  Bear mauling in Yellowstone.

October 9, 1922.  Bureau of Indian Affairs gives permission for Native American actors from Wind River to act.

November 3, 1942.  The Election of 1942.

Updates for January through June, 2022

 

January 6, 1942.  President Roosevelt's State of the Union Address for 1942.

January 6, 2022.  President Biden's address to the nation on the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection.

January 7, 1942.  President Roosevelt's first wartime budget.

January 26, 1922.  Josh House burns in Evanston.

February 1.  National Freedom Day.

June 9, 2022. Opening of the first open hearing of the January 6 Committee:

2022  Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney delivered a major address on the occasion of the first of the open hearings of the January 6 Committee.  Her address was effectively an opening statement in the presentation of the events of the January 6, 2021 Insurrection.

June 9, 2022  2022  The US Board on Geographic names has announced that Mount Doane in Yellowstone National Park is being renamed First People's Mountain.

June 13, 2022.  Flooding in Yellowstone.

Updates for October, 2021

 

October 6, 2021.  Governor Gordon visits US/Mexico border.

October 28, 2021.  Eula Kendrick and Rosa-Maye Kendrick photographed in Washington D. C.

November 8, 1921.  Chief Plenty Coups photographed in Washington D. C.

November 11, 1921.  Dedication of Tomb of Unknown Soldier updated.

November 14, 1921.  Item on Jack Taylor updated.

November 18, 1921. Congress outlaws beer.

November 20, 1941.  Thanksgiving Day.

November 23, 1921.  Generally updated.

December 28, 1921.  Large prohibition raid added.

December 29, 1921.  Newspaper accounts of liquor raid.

December 31, 1921  Natrona County acquires the hospital.

Updates for May and June, 2021

 

May 12, 2021.  Congressman Cheney removed from leadership position.

May 15, 1921.  Great Solar Strom of 1921.

June 13, 2021.  Mills marks 100 years.

June 24, 1921.  Congressman Mondell visited President Harding.

Updates for April, 2021

April 8:  Girls high school softball comes to Casper.
 

Updates for March, 2021

March 11:  1941, information on Lend Lease Act added.
 

Updates for February, 2021

 February 23, 1921.  Pioneering air mail flight.

Updates for January, 2021

January 3: 2021; Cynthia Lummis takes office as Senator.

January 6:  2021; Insurrection in in Washington D. C.

January 11, 1921:  1921 legislative session commences.

January 20, 1941:  Third inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

January 20.  A series of updates in the January 20 inaugurations and the 2021 inauguration of Joseph Biden.

Updates for November and December, 2020

 November 3:  General Election of 2020.

November 6:  1920 death of John P. Woodward.

November 12:  1920 divorce of Mildred Harris and other events.

Updates for August and September, 2020

August 5, 2020.  Wyoming's rig count goes to zero for only the second time since 1884.

August 5, 2020.  Goshen County Commission condemns the State's Coronavirus restrictions as overblown.

August 4, 2020.  Mills, Wyoming declared to be a city.

August 9, 1920.  Photographs added.

August 15, 1920. St. Anthony of Padua Church dedicated in Casper.

September 3, 1920.  Alonzo Stepp, African American rancher, appointed Fontenelle Postmaster.

September 8, 1920.  The start of air mail.

September 16, 1920.  The Wall Street Bombing.

September 16, 1940.  Items on conscription and Federalization of National Guard added.

September 16, 1620.  Pilgrims depart England.

October 16, 1940  R Day.

Updates for June and July, 2020

June 3, 2020.  Protests in Casper.

June 5, 2020.  Second protest in Casper.

July 4, 1920.  Hanna World War One Memorial dedicated.

July 5, 1920.  Mills Oregon Trail memorial dedicated.

July 9, 1920.  Photograph of Moran dam.

Updates for April and May, 2020

Updates for April, 2020.

April 3, 2020.  Governor Gordon extends and expands his emergency order due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

April 9, 2020.  Governor Gordon asks for Federal disaster declaration and proclaims April 10 a Day of Prayer.

April 10, 2020.  Day of Prayer due to Coronavirus Pandemic.

May 15, 2020.  Special Legislative Session.

May 22, 1920.  Reports of Carranza's assassination.

May 22, 2020.  Flags ordered at half staff for Coronavirus victims.

May 27, 2020  Governor Gordon modifies quarantine orders and cancellation of rodeos.

Updates for March, 2020

March 1, 1920:  Railroads revert to civilian control and novel by Caroline Lockhart his the screen.

March 11, 2020.  President Trump addressed the nation on the Coronavirus.

March 13, 2020  President Trump and Governor Gordon declare state of emergency.

March 16, 2020.  Diocese of Cheyenne suspends public Masses due to the Coronavirus.

March 19, 1920.  Newspapers added.

March 19, 2020  Governor Gordon orders certain businesses closed due to Covid-19

March 24, 2020.  Governor Gordon issues his third closure order.

March 25, 2020.  Governor Gordon suggests that Wyomingites stay at home, Colorado and Idaho issue stay at home orders. 

March 26, 2020.  The Governor of Montana issues a stay at home order.

March 27, 2020.  Governor Gordon extends the State of Emergency.

March 28, 1920  Typhus outbreak in Casper.

Updates for January and February, 2020

 January 1, 1920 Gasoline Alley from the Chicago Times.  Gasoline Alley was first published in 1919 and is still in publication.  It's characters age, and die, in real time.

1.  January 1, 1920:  Item on the Palmer Raids updated.

2.  January 2, 1920.  Palmer Raids.

3.  January 10, 1920.  End of World War One, Wyoming soldier in Siberia.

4.  January 14, 1920.  Materials added on early air tragedy.

5.  January 12, 1995.  Wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park.

6.  January 17, 1920.  Item on Prohibition.

7.  January 20, 1920.  Bert Cole back in the air.

8.  January 26, 1920.  Murder in Natrona County and feeding elk in Teton County

9.  January 28, 1920.  Robert Carey signs 19th Amendment ratification.

10.  February 4, 2020.  State of the Union Address added.

11.  February 5, 2020.  Senate votes to acquit President Trump added.

12.  February 10, 2020. 2020 Legislature convenes, State of the State Address delivered.

13.  February 25, 1920.  Material added on Oil Leasing Act.