Today In Wyoming's History

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (1941)

1777  Congress declared a Thanksgiving Day following the  British surrender at Saratoga. 1871   A bill providing for the establishment of ...

1716   Martín de Alarcón, founder of San Antonio, appointed governor of Texas.  Attribution:  On This Day. 1854 The poem "The Charg...

1865  Companies A, C, F, and G of the 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry arrived at Platte Bridge Station, Wyoming.  They were certainly v...

Today is National Boss's Day. 1889  Emma Howell Knight, future dean of women at the University of Wyoming and Wilbur Clinton Knigh...

1865  John B. Stetson, Philadelphia, supposed invented the cowboy hat. While Stetson's role in manufacturing and marketing "co...

Today is Patriot Day 1842   Mexico sent 12,000 troops to capture San Antonio from Texas, which it refused to recognize as an independe...

1870   Nathaniel P. Langford sketched the first detailed map of Yellowstone Lake from the vantage point of Colter Peak.  Attribution:  On T...

1865  Gen. Connor lead 125 Michigan cavalrymen and 90 Pawnee in an early morning assault on an Arapaho village encamped on the Tongue River...

 Members of President Arthur's party in Yellowstone. 1883  President Arthur began a tour of Yellowstone National Park. Gen ...

1819 Allan Pinkerton, detective, secret service agent, born. 1850  Western humorist Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye born in Maine. He ...

1619  August 20, 1619. Slavery comes to British America The date isn't known with precision.  Only that it occurred in August.  B...