Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Indian Wars In The West

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Indian Wars In The West: In 1825 President James Monroe, after looking at reports from his top advisors, created, what was called, the Indian Frontier between the M...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming the Railroad and What If

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming the Railroad and What If: The transcontinental railroad was a brainchild of Eastern businessmen and politicians in the 1830s. It took a while, about two decades befo...

Lex Anteinternet: The new economic normal?

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 the meantime OPEC had their meeting, and I&#...

Lex Anteinternet: And the oil price war goes nuclear. . . or maybe s...

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 occasion:



Lex Anteinternet: And the oil price war goes nuclear. . . or maybe s...: Given that so much attention has been focused on other things, many may have missed that Friday OPEC, lead by Saudi Arabia, failed to set c...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Curious Case of Lieutenant Hugh Fleming

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Curious Case of Lieutenant Hugh Fleming: The Grattan Massacre, Aug 19, 1854, is often listed as the event that started the Indian wars on the plains. Anyone who is interested in ...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Butch - Sundance, and the Wild Bunch

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Butch - Sundance, and the Wild Bunch: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, two of the best know outlaws of the American West. Best known, but not that well known until the movie...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming and the Military

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

Overland Trail

Lex Anteinternet: American Guide Week. 1941

Lex Anteinternet: American Guide Week. 1941:

From this week, in 1941.



Anyone ever see a copy?

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming's First School

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

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Fort Laramie - Protecting the West

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Fort Laramie - Protecting the West: In 1834, it was Fort William named after post founder, trapper/trader William Sublette.By 1841, the post was owned by the American Fur Co...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Jim Bridger Trail

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: The Jim Bridger Trail: In 1862, gold was discovered in Virginia City, Montana Territory. Gold seekers, businessmen, thieves and get rich schemers quickly followed...

Lex Anteinternet: Who makes up the legislature

Lex Anteinternet: Who makes up the legislature: Joan Barrons of the Casper Star Tribune wrote a very interesting article that was published in last Sunday's CST regarding the makeup of...

Churches of the West: Blog Mirror: This Day In Wyoming History: Dedicat...

Churches of the West: Blog Mirror: This Day In Wyoming History: Dedicat...: Today marks the 100th anniversary of the dedication of Wyoming’s first synagogue – Mt. Sinai in Cheyenne.

Lex Anteinternet: The City of Casper Smoking Ballot Issue

Lex Anteinternet: The City of Casper Smoking Ballot Issue: REFERENDUM BALLOT PROPOSITION ON ORDINANCE NO. 15-13:   AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 8.16 OF THE CASPER MUNI...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: 5 Periods of Wyoming History

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: 5 Periods of Wyoming History: Wyoming historians divide the history of the state into five periods. Thought it might be fun to take those five periods and try to list my...

Painted Bricks: Casper's Iris to become a civic auditorium.

Painted Bricks: Casper's Iris to become a civic auditorium.:   The Iris, a recently closed Casper downtown movie theater. The association that's been backing a civil auditorium announced yes...

Lex Anteinternet: Trimming $200,000,000

(This item was also added as an update to the October 7 entry here).



Lex Anteinternet: Trimming $200,000,000:   Rainy Day in Cheyenne . Yesterday Governor Mead announced that he intends to trim $200,000,000 from next year's budget.  That&#3

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Lex Anteinternet: The disappearnce of the bridging company and the r...

Lex Anteinternet: The disappearnce of the bridging company and the r...: Yesterday a spokesman for the Wyoming Army National Guard announced that the 1041st Multi-Role Bridge Company will soon cease to exist. Th...

Lex Anteinternet: Lawyer population growth

Lex Anteinternet: Lawyer population growth: The ABA reports: The ABA chart generally measures the population of both active and resident lawyers as of Dec. 31, 2014. It shows the ...

Lex Anteinternet: Airmail & Airway Beacons in Wyoming

Lex Anteinternet: Airmail & Airway Beacons in Wyoming

Painted Bricks: The Mysterious Monumental Architecture in Cheyenne...

Painted Bricks: The Mysterious Monumental Architecture in Cheyenne...: I go to Cheyenne a fair amount but it's only recently that I've noticed some interesting monumental architecture in the town, and so...

Some Gave All: Cheyenne Wyoming's Buffalo Soldier Monument, Verno...

Some Gave All: Cheyenne Wyoming's Buffalo Soldier Monument, Verno...: These are photographs of a small park in  Cheyenne Wyoming, just off of F. E. Warren Air Force Base, which was formerly Ft. F. E. Warren...

Some Gave All: Frank Wenger Holliday Memorial, Cheyenne Wyoming.

Does anyone here know the story behind this memorial?

Frank Wenger Holliday Memorial, Cheyenne Wyoming.

This is an unusual private memorial on a small, traffic island, park in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  I had thought it might be a war memorial, but it is instead a memorial to the thirteen year old son, Frank, of Cal and Rudolphia Holliday.  Cal Holliday was a Cheyenne businessman and mayor in the city's early days. What happened to the Holliday's young son I do not know.

This unusual memorial is just off of the downtown business district of Cheyenne in its historic district.  This post is clearly off topic.

Some Gave All: Horseshoe Creek Station, Wyoming

Horseshoe Creek Station, Wyoming

Another Wyoming highway marker that's on the old highway, rather than the Interstate Highway. This marker is south of Glendo Wyoming.

Some Gave All: Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail, 1868-1887

Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail, 1868-1887

This post is somewhat off topic here, but this is a marker for the Cheyenne, Ft. Laramie, Deadwood Trail.  The marker is on the old state  highway, but is visible in terms of its location from the present
Interstate Highway.  It's north of Cheyenne.

Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: Some Gave All: James Bridger's Ferry...

Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: Some Gave All: James Bridger's Ferry...: I generally try not to post an entry on one of our (less published on) blogs entact here, save for courthouse and church photographic entri...

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming's Sheep Industry

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Wyoming's Sheep Industry: By the early 1880s, cattlemen were starting to see more and more sheep being brought into eastern Wyoming. Some accepted them but many, som...

Lex Anteinternet: Coming back to the past: Vince Crolla

Coming back to the past: Vince Crolla

An article on Vince Crolla, who took a different path than most law school graduates and is now the archivist at Casper College's Western History Center.

A very nice fellow, I met him when I gave a talk on my book up there.

I'd note that as archival material, old law books (those are in the CC collection), don't have much value any more, or at least that'd be my view. With everything on Westlaw and Lexus, the need to maintain a library of case books, which is what those are, has pretty much vanished.

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Gannett Peak Wyoming

Wyoming Fact and Fiction: Gannett Peak Wyoming: Gannett Peak, Wyoming’s highest mountain, reaches 13,785 feet. The Peak is more than 10,000 feet higher than Wyoming’s lowest point on ...