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Three Mixed-race Families and a Wagon Train Attack: A Story of Frontier Survival
Bullets splintered the wagon box. Arrows shredded the wagon’s canvas cover. Two pregnant women huddled together in the wagon, trying to make their toddlers lie down. The travelers in this 12-wagon...
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Crossing Wyoming: Kit Carson and a Changing West
The trapper and mountain man Kit Carson traversed what’s now Wyoming dozens of times. Little is known of most of those trips. But of one year we have a close account—1842, when Carson guided a young...
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Attack on the Kelly-Larimer Wagon Train
Late one afternoon in July 1864, a party of American Indians rode up to a small wagon train on the Oregon Trail and, using signs, asked in a friendly way for something to eat. The emigrant party...
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John E. Osborne and the Logjammed Politics of 1893
In December 1892, a tug-of-war between Wyoming Democrats and Republicans resulted in a tense standoff in the governor’s office. Two men claimed to be the state’s top official. The deep-seated conflict...
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Teapot Dome, the U.S. Marines and a President’s Reputation
Editor's note: This article was written by Carolynne Harris, consultant, in collaboration with and for the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy.Part 1 of 2 (Read Part 2 here)In 1922,...
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Asa Mercer and The Banditti of the Plains
The horses galloped for the Wyoming-Colorado border, pulling a wagon loaded with several hundred copies of a book, at least one of which had a bullet hole in it. Was this seditious literature?...
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Booze, Cops, and Bootleggers: Enforcing Prohibition in Central Wyoming
Prohibition was on its last legs in Wyoming when top public officials—Casper’s mayor and police chief and the Natrona County Sheriff—were accused of corruption. The men who ran the town and the county,...
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E. T. Payton: Muckraker, Mental Patient and Advocate for the Mentally Ill
Edward T. Payton, a Wyoming reporter, editor and tireless advocate for the mentally ill is now nearly forgotten. During his lifetime, however, he published two Wyoming newspapers, promoted newspapers...
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The Grattan Fight: Prelude to a Generation of War
It is Aug. 19, 1854. At a site just east of Fort Laramie, on the Oregon/California Trail along the North Platte River, the weather is hot, pleasant and clear. And this afternoon, Brevet 2nd Lt. John...
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Battling Monopoly: Northern Utilities and the Casper Star-Tribune
Some readers may have thought the Casper Star-Tribune's front-page headline on April 1, 1984, was just an April Fool's prank: "Gas customers pay extra $5.8 million for nothing." It sounded far-fetched,...
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Soldier, Settler, Murderer and Veteran: John “Posey” Ryan in Wyoming, 1866-1929
While the Civil War raged east of the Mississippi River, Euro-American settlement in what would soon become Wyoming Territory was decidedly limited.A few isolated communities squatted near military...
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Newspaper War in Paradise: A 30-year Conflict in Jackson Hole
When the war broke out in Jackson Hole, most people had their money on the hometown hero to win. He had easily warded off any challengers before, and the townsfolk were dead certain he was...
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Life on the Home Front: Wyoming During World War I
In late November 1917, seven months after the United States entered World War I, a high school teacher in Powell, Wyo., was asked to resign because she was a pacifist. The Nov. 22, 1917, Powell Leader...
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‘Noted Beauty Coming:’ Suffragist Campaigns Across Wyoming
“Noted beauty coming,” declared the Laramie Republican in its October 1916 headline advancing Inez Milholland’s appearance in Cheyenne.Accustomed to having her good looks noticed before her formidable...
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Paul Kendall’s War: A Wyoming Soldier Serves in Siberia
In a U.S. Army career spanning three wars and four decades, Paul Kendall, of Sheridan, Wyo., never forgot the moment when his platoon, guarding a Siberian rail station, was attacked one night at 30...
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Asa Mercer and The Banditti of the Plains
The horses galloped for the Wyoming-Colorado border, pulling a wagon loaded with several hundred copies of a book, at least one of which had a bullet hole in it. Was this seditious literature?...
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Booze, Cops, and Bootleggers: Enforcing Prohibition in Central Wyoming
Prohibition was on its last legs in Wyoming when top public officials—Casper’s mayor and police chief and the Natrona County Sheriff—were accused of corruption. The men who ran the town and the county,...
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E. T. Payton: Muckraker, Mental Patient and Advocate for the Mentally Ill
Edward T. Payton, a Wyoming reporter, editor and tireless advocate for the mentally ill is now nearly forgotten. During his lifetime, however, he published two Wyoming newspapers, promoted newspapers...
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The Grattan Fight: Prelude to a Generation of War
It is Aug. 19, 1854. At a site just east of Fort Laramie, on the Oregon/California Trail along the North Platte River, the weather is hot, pleasant and clear. And this afternoon, Brevet 2nd Lt. John...
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Battling Monopoly: Northern Utilities and the Casper Star-Tribune
Some readers may have thought the Casper Star-Tribune's front-page headline on April 1, 1984, was just an April Fool's prank: "Gas customers pay extra $5.8 million for nothing." It sounded far-fetched,...
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