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Title Section Last update
Roberts, Rev. John Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Devils Tower Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Medicine Wheel Encyclopedia 12/8/2011
South Pass, early missionaries Encyclopedia 5/14/2012

Recent Articles

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 | Medicine Wheel
The Medicine Wheel, a ring of limestone boulders 80 feet in diameter with 28 spokes radiating from a central cairn, lies on an open mountaintop at an elevation above 9,600 feet in Wyoming’s Bighorn...
Encyclopedia | Devils Tower
Devils Tower, a basalt column rising 1,267 feet above the nearby Belle Fourche River, was the nation’s first National Monument and remains important to tourists and the many tribes that hold it...
Encyclopedia | The Reverend John Roberts, Missionary to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes
The Welsh-born Episcopal priest John Roberts arrived in 1883 at Fort Washakie on what’s now the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, became a friend of the Shoshone chief Washakie, and served...