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Title Author Last update
Campbell, John Wyoming State Archives 10/12/2011
Barber, Amos Wyoming State Archives 10/12/2011
Barrett, Frank Wyoming State Archives 10/12/2011
Baxter, George Wyoming State Archives 10/12/2011
Brooks, Bryant Wyoming State Archives 11/21/2011

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South Pass Gold Rush
Discovery of gold near South Pass in the 1860s led to the creation and settlement of short-lived South Pass City, Wyo. and other settlements nearby. The Carissa Mine was one of the richest, but...
First Wagons to Cross South Pass
In 1830, a party of fur traders led by William Sublette took wagons to the trade’s annual rendezvous at the headwaters of Wind River that year, east of the Continental Divide. Two years later, Capt....
Protestant Missionaries Cross South Pass
As the beaver trade waned in the 1830s, so did economic reasons for an American toehold in the Oregon country, still under joint British-American occupancy. Religion shifted the balance of power,...
The Astorians Discover South Pass
Robert Stuart and partners and employees of the fur magnate John Jacob Astor, traveling east in 1812 from the Oregon coast to St. Louis, crossed “a handsome low gap” in the Rocky Mountains in October...
Weston County, Wyoming
The final Wyoming Territorial Legislative Assembly created Weston County in March 1890. Thirty years later, the discovery of oil at Osage, Wyo., halfway between the county seat of Newcastle and the...
Stephen Downey
Stephen Wheeler Downey was a prominent Laramie lawyer active in public life in Wyoming for more than 30 years beginning in 1869. He served in the territorial and state legislatures where he was an...
Emma Howell Knight
Emma Knight, the University of Wyoming’s first dean of women, bore four children and served seven years as the Albany County, Wyoming superintendent of schools before she finally graduated from the...
The Establishment of Grand Teton National Park
Largely forgotten today is the stiff local resistance that arose in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to the creation and later the expansion of a national park there. The story covers 31 years of controversy,...