How To Use This Site
How To Use This Site
This blog was updated on a daily basis for about two years, with those daily entries ceasing on December 31, 2013. The blog is still active, however, and we hope that people stopping in, who find something lacking, will add to the daily entries.
The blog still receives new posts as well, but now it receives them on items of Wyoming history. That has always been a feature of the blog, but Wyoming's history is rich and there are many items that are not fully covered here, if covered at all. Over time, we hope to remedy that.
You can obtain an entire month's listings by hitting on the appropriate month below, or an individual day by hitting on that calendar date. Use 2013 for the search date, as that's the day regular dates were established and fixed.
Alternatively, the months are listed immediately below, with the individual days appearing backwards (oldest first).
We hope you enjoy this site.
We hope you enjoy this site.
Friday, October 14, 2016
Wyoming Fact and Fiction: I.S. Bartlett - History of Wyoming
Wyoming Fact and Fiction: I.S. Bartlett - History of Wyoming: One of the earliest attempts to write a history of Wyoming was by Hartville resident, I. S. Bartlett and published in 1918. Vol 1 of the ...
Friday, October 7, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: Active at the time and in the region. Frank A. Me...
Lex Anteinternet: Active at the time and in the region. Frank A. Me...: Frank A. Meanea is one of the most famous of the late 19th and early 20th Century saddlemakers. Meanea started off his career by working ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
New Sidebar: Lex Anteinternet: The Wyoming National Guard and the Punitive Expedion
This post, which appears on one of companion blogs, has just been added here as a Sidebar (see the features off to the left hand margin of the blog). We thought about posting it here as an original entry to this site, but it fits into the Punitive Expedition theme we're exploring on Lex Anteinternet. We hope you enjoy it.
Lex Anteinternet: The Wyoming National Guard and the Punitive Expedi...: I'll confess, in making this post, that I have a soft spot for the National Guard. In no small part that may be because I was in the A...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Sign of the times? Casper Petro...
Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Sign of the times? Casper Petro...: We ran this news recently: Lex Anteinternet: Sign of the times? Casper Petroleum Club to close... : Founded in 1949 with the purpose to “...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Today In Wyoming's History: September 27. Disasters and ships.
From Today In Wyoming's History: September 27:
Such an awful disaster, you'd think there might be.
1923 Thirty railroad passengers were killed when a CB&Q trainThere's something in the county memorializing the latter (the ship's wheel, in the old courthouse), but not the former.
wrecked at the Cole Creek Bridge, which had been washed out due to a
flood, in Natrona County. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical
Society.
1944 USS Natrona, a Haskell class attack transport, launched.
Such an awful disaster, you'd think there might be.
Monday, September 26, 2016
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: Cowboy Boots
Lex Anteinternet: Cowboy Boots: Title: An array of boots at the F.M. Light & Sons western-wear store in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Library of Congress photographs...
Friday, September 16, 2016
Some Gave All: Mormon Pioneer Memorial, Lyman Wyoming.
Some Gave All: Mormon Pioneer Memorial, Lyman Wyoming.:
This is a Mormon Pioneer Memorial at the rest stop in Lyman, Wyoming.
It was obviously originally a private memorial and was likely moved to
its current location after the rest stop was built and Interstate 80
altered the original path of the Lincoln Highway.
This is a Mormon Pioneer Memorial at the rest stop in Lyman, Wyoming.
It was obviously originally a private memorial and was likely moved to
its current location after the rest stop was built and Interstate 80
altered the original path of the Lincoln Highway.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Wyoming Fact and Fiction: A Ride With The President
Wyoming Fact and Fiction: A Ride With The President: In late May of 1903 the president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, rode 50 miles from Laramie to Cheyenne. The story is well know...
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: First modern grocery store opens in Memphis, Tenne...
Lex Anteinternet: First modern grocery store opens in Memphis, Tenne...: It was a Piggly Wiggly. The interior of the first Piggly Wiggly. It was unusual as shoppers found the food they were looking for the...
Holscher's Hub: Buffalo Bill Museum, Cody Wyoming
Holscher's Hub: Buffalo Bill Museum, Cody Wyoming: Study of a large bronze of Theodore Roosevelt as a Rough Rider. Modern Native American depiction of the Battle of the Little Big H...
Holscher's Hub: Cody Firearms Museum, Cody Wyoming
Holscher's Hub: Cody Firearms Museum, Cody Wyoming: Scenes from the Cody Firearms Museum in Cody Wyoming. A"rocket" pistol if I recall correctly, that fired small rockets ...
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Lex Anteinternet: Sign of the times? Casper Petroleum Club to close...
Lex Anteinternet: Sign of the times? Casper Petroleum Club to close...: Founded in 1949 with the purpose to “aid the industrial and productive interests of the State of Wyoming" the Casper Petroleum Club, a...
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