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Title Section Last update
Carbon Cemetery Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Trails across Wyoming: The Oregon, Mormon Pioneer and California Routes Encyclopedia 11/22/2011
Fur trade in Wyoming Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Devils Tower Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Medicine Lodge Encyclopedia 1/9/2012

Recent Articles

Essay | 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...
Encyclopedia | 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...
Encyclopedia | 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....
Encyclopedia | 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,...
Encyclopedia | 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...
Essay | 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...
Essay | 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...