Today In Wyoming's History

Lex Anteinternet: Ancestry.com: 9 Reasons Your Great-Great-Grandpar... : An interesting item from Ancestry.com: 9 Reasons Your Great-Gr...

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016 : The focus of this blog, at least theoretically, is on events of a century ago. ...

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016 : The focus of this blog, at least theoretically, is on events of a century ago. ...

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016 : The focus of this blog, at least theoretically, is on events of a century ago. ...

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016 : The focus of this blog, at least theoretically, is on events of a century ago. ...

Lex Anteinternet: Questions for the (local) candidates. : Our Congressman, Cynthia Lummis, is leaving office. So candidates are lining up to...

Wyoming's Oral Histories Soon Available On New Database  This spring, the Wyoming State Historical Society plans to launch a new onli...

'Flag Notification'

Lex Anteinternet: Tracking the Presidential Election, 2016 : The focus of this blog, at least theoretically, is on events of a century ago. ...

Lex Anteinternet: The rise and fall of the Standard Oil Refinery in ... :  The Standard Oil Refinery at its peak. Recently I posted this...

Some Gave All: Bridger Trail, Wyoming

Some Gave All: Washakie County Pioneers' Memorial, Worland Wyoming This memorial in the Washakie County Wyoming Court...

Lex Anteinternet: Movies in History: The Revenant :  Newspaper article with C.M Russell depiction of the attack of the bear upon Gl...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Ashley-Henry Party Opening the West : In 1822,  General William H.Ashley organized the Rocky Mountain Fur Comp...

It hasn't been my habit here to do end of the year reviews, and indeed there are no doubt more items on Medieval history on this site t...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming Newspapers : Wyoming’s first newspaper was published in 1863 in Fort Bridger. The paper, the Daily Telegra...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Indian Wars In The West : In 1825 President James Monroe, after looking at reports from his top advisors, created,...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming the Railroad and What If : The transcontinental railroad was a brainchild of Eastern businessmen and polit...

Lex Anteinternet: The new economic normal? : I started this post off about a week ago, and then let it set as I was traveling for work.  In ...

Normally I wouldn't link this post in here, but given as the price of oil impacts the state's economy so directly, I am on this occa...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Curious Case of Lieutenant Hugh Fleming : The Grattan Massacre, Aug 19, 1854, is often listed as the event tha...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Butch - Sundance, and the Wild Bunch : Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, two of the best know outlaws of the Ame...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming and the Military : Starting with Fort Laramie in 1849 Wyoming has a long history of positive involvement w...

Lex Anteinternet: American Guide Week. 1941 : From this week, in 1941. Anyone ever see a copy?

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming's First School : Being an old school teacher, I am always interested in reading about early day school...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Fort Laramie - Protecting the West : In 1834, it was Fort William named after post founder, trapper/trader William...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Jim Bridger Trail : In 1862, gold was discovered in Virginia City, Montana Territory. Gold seekers, businessme...

Lex Anteinternet: Who makes up the legislature : Joan Barrons of the Casper Star Tribune wrote a very interesting article that was published...

Churches of the West: Blog Mirror: This Day In Wyoming History: Dedicat... : Today marks the 100th anniversary of the dedication of Wyoming...