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Title Section Last update
Campbell, John Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Barber, Amos Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Barrett, Frank Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Baxter, George Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Brooks, Bryant Encyclopedia 11/21/2011

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Essay | 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...
Encyclopedia | 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...
Encyclopedia | 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,...
Essay | 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...
Encyclopedia | William Jefferson Hardin: Wyoming’s first black legislator
Old West adventurer, orator, barber, reported bigamist, and passionate defender of civil rights, Kentucky-born William Jefferson Hardin was Wyoming’s first African-American legislator in its...
Encyclopedia | Verda James, First Woman Speaker of Wyoming’s House of Representatives
Verda James, a schoolteacher, deputy director of public instruction for the state of Wyoming, assistant superintendent of the Natrona County schools, and later a faculty member at Casper College,...
Encyclopedia | Mary Godat Bellamy, Wyoming's First Woman Legislator
Mary Godat Bellamy, Wyoming’s first woman legislator, was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1910, where she sponsored bills aimed at improving the lives of women and children....