Today In Wyoming's History

The Attorney General of Wyoming indicated that the State would file a petition for a rehearing in the Hill case. Rehearings are very ra...

In a 3 to 2 decision, with a blistering dissent, the Wyoming Supreme Court struck down the decision restructuring the state Dapartment of Ed...

Lex Anteinternet: Keeping a Swimming Pool at NCHS : I was on the Natrona County High School swim team in 1978-1979 and 1979-1980.  I might h...

Lex Anteinternet: Governor Hunt's World War Two Correspondence, Hear... : The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming has ...

Lex Anteinternet: Watching the Morph. How the news gets spun by the... : Wyoming has a very large Indian Reservation, the Wind River Reserv...

Liz Cheney dropped out of the primary campaign for the U.S. Senate citing a health concern within her family.  While some rumors indicate th...

In addition to continuing to post items on individual episodes of Wyoming's rich history here, we will are also starting a new feature i...

We have now added a navigation calendar to this site, so that people looking for any one day may easily hit on that date in the calendar and...

1600     The British East India Company formed by Royal Charter; d.1874 1871  The Territorial Legislature authorized the formation of mili...

1782  The Decree of Trenton gives the Wyoming region of Ohio and Pennsylvania to Pennsylvania. 1835  Santa Ana declared that all foreigne...

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

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...

1836  Stephen F. Austin died. Attribution:  On This Day. 1867  Dakota Territorial Legislature creates Sweetwater County. 1890  The Union...

This blog has been running now for about two years (I chose to start it on an odd month of the year, for some reason, rather than in January...

Today is Boxing Day (except when falling on a Sunday, when by Royal Proclamation, it is transferred to Monday). Boxing Day has its orig...

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...