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Title Author Last update
Fur trading in 1834 Tom Rea 10/12/2011
Pictographs and petroglyphs Tom Rea 10/12/2011
Cheyennes tribes come together after Sand Creek Tom Rea 10/12/2011
Railroad arrives in Laramie Tom Rea 10/12/2011
Warren Air Force Base and its Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War Dan Whipple 10/12/2011

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South Pass
Award-winning historian Will Bagley explains that without South Pass and the easy grade it offered to early transcontinental travelers, the history of the United States would have been much different...
Stand on South Pass: Wallace Stegner, the Wind and the West
Noted western historian Will Bagley, drawing on the work of Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and conservationist Wallace Stegner, offers a passionate plea for the preservation of South Pass, a crucial...
The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920: The law that changed Wyoming’s economic destiny
The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 established the modern system by which oil and coal companies may lease federal land. This system has proven enormously beneficial to Wyoming’s state coffers since it...
Bob David’s War: A Wyoming Soldier Serves in France
Bob David, an adopted boy reared by a well-to-do Wyoming family, never felt he truly belonged until he joined the military and went to France during World War I. He served in an artillery unit and...
J. B. Okie, Sheep King of Central Wyoming
The vivid, charismatic J. B. Okie raised sheep near Badwater Creek at the turn of the last century, and was so successful he was called “Sheep King.” A businessman with great vision, he soon owned...
The Wagon Wheel Project
A late-1960s Atomic Energy Commission plan to extract Wyoming natural gas with five underground nuclear explosions won strong initial support from the oil and gas industry and the federal government...
Rock Springs, Wyoming
Rock Springs, Wyo. traces its origins to a coal mine established there in 1868 to serve the still-building Union Pacific Railroad. Ever since, the town has been enriched by the people who came from...