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Wyoming Troops in the Philippines, 1898
When the new year of 1898 began, President William McKinley was unable even to locate the Philippine Islands within 2,000 miles on a world map. One prominent American observed that the people of the...
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The Grave of Pvt. Ralston Baker
Published: March 26, 2018Military records show that Ralston Baker of Philadelphia enlisted in the 51st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on Aug. 4, 1864, and served with that regiment during the last...
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Coming to Wind River: the Eastern Shoshone Treaties of 1863 and 1868
Published: May 23, 2018In the 1860s, the U.S. government negotiated two treaties with the Eastern Shoshone people that resulted in their taking up a permanent home in Warm Valley—the valley of the Big...
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The Bells of Balangiga
Published: June 4, 2018Today’s visitors to F.E. Warren Air Force Base will find a brick memorial in a prominent position on the historic fort’s parade ground. Holding two old bells and an antiquated...
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The Arapaho Arrive: Two Nations on One Reservation
Published: June 23, 2018In the spring of 1878, about 950 Northern Arapaho people arrived with an Army escort on the Eastern Shoshone Reservation in the Wind River Valley in central Wyoming Territory....
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Trouble at Lightning Creek: “A Stained Page in Wyoming’s History”
Published: July 30, 2018Copyright © 2018 by WyoHistory.orgJust before sunset, on Oct. 31, 1903, 18-year-old Hope Clear, an Oglala Sioux from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, dismounted from...
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Aven Nelson, Botanist and President of the University of Wyoming
Published: October 23, 2018When 28-year-old Aven Nelson arrived in Laramie, Wyo., on July 28, 1887, the University of Wyoming consisted of just one building, still under construction, on an arid plain...
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Fragmenting Tribal Lands: The Dawes Act of 1887
Published: October 30, 2018Treaties negotiated between the United States government and American Indians in 1851 , 1863 and 1868 created some boundaries: physical, setting aside separate lands for...
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Who First Climbed the Grand?
Published: November 19, 2018Disputes over who first climbed certain Wyoming mountains date to the earliest times of Euro-Americans in the West. One of the first was about which peak of the Wind River...
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The Tribes Sell Off More Land: The 1905 Agreement
Published: December 10, 2018At the turn of the last century, the fortunes of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes on the Shoshone Reservation in central Wyoming were reaching a low ebb....
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Managing Game on the Wind River Reservation
Published: January 22, 2019Elk, deer, moose, mule deer, bighorn sheep, pronghorn and other wild ungulates that migrate freely across Wyoming’s vast landscapes also cross more than two million acres of...
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Holding on to Sovereignty: The Tribes Mix Old Forms with New
Published: February 5, 2019In the early decades of the 20th century, Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho people in Wyoming found new ways to keep old traditions alive. At the same time they settled...
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Native Rights to Wind River Water
Published: February 15, 2019Water can be scarce in arid Wyoming, but if the land is used lightly water is adequate. The water stored in winter snows in the mountains supports abundant game in the...
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Mike Sullivan, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland
Published: March 4, 2019Editors’ note: Four years after he finished his second term as governor of Wyoming, Casper attorney Mike Sullivan was named U.S. ambassador to Ireland by President Bill Clinton....
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Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain: Celebrated and Controversial Landmark
Published: April 10, 2019The Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark is located at an elevation of 9,642 feet near the crest of the Bighorn Mountains of north central Wyoming. It...
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High School Hair Wars: 1960s Casper board suspends boy's education
Published: July 1, 2019In September 1967, a ninth-grade boy at Dean Morgan Junior High School in Casper, Wyo. was suspended for refusing to cut his hair to the length required by the Casper-Midwest...
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Wyoming and World War II
Published: February 4, 2020One of the first Wyoming men killed during the Second World War was also one of the last to return home.Navy Machinist’s Mate First Class George Hanson died on Dec. 7, 1941,...
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The Cheyenne Homecoming
Published: April 25, 2020The Northern Cheyenne were among tribes attacked by Custer and his ill-fated command at the Little Bighorn in June 1876—a great victory for the Northern Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux...
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Fort Halleck and the Overland Trail
Published: May 2, 2020On March 2, 1863, Lt. Col. William Collins wrote to his superior officer, stationed in Omaha, Nebraska Territory. “It had stormed more or less for two days, and on the third day...
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The Frontier Index: 'Press on Wheels' in a Partisan Time
Published: May 22, 2020When the Union Pacific railroad tracks reached Cheyenne in the fall of 1867, three little newspapers had already appeared on the streets of what soon would become Wyoming...
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