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Title Section Last update
Railroad arrives in Laramie Essay 10/12/2011
Burlington Railroad in Wyoming Essay 10/7/2011
Carlisle, Bill Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Rock Springs Massacre Essay 10/12/2011
Trails across Wyoming: The Oregon, Mormon Pioneer and California Routes Encyclopedia 11/22/2011

Recent Articles

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...
Encyclopedia | Point of Rocks Stage Station
Point of Rocks Stage Station, 25 miles east of present Rock Springs, Wyo., was built in 1862 by the Overland Stage Company. The station was attacked and burned at least once by Indians, and...
Encyclopedia | Register Cliff
Register Cliff, near present Guernsey, Wyo., is one of three large “registers of the desert” in Wyoming where Oregon-, California- and Utah-bound emigrants carved their names on rock. Many of the...
Encyclopedia | Piedmont Charcoal Kilns
The Piedmont Charcoal Kilns southwest of Evanston, Wyo. were built in 1869 to supply charcoal primarily to Utah mining and smelting operations. The town of Piedmont’s location—on the Union Pacific...
Encyclopedia | Oregon Trail Ruts
Ruts carved two to six feet deep in a sandstone ridge on the south side of the North Platte River about a half mile south of Guernsey, Wyo., provide striking physical evidence of the route followed...