DeMarge Toliver was a charter member of Cheyenne’s Searchlight Club in 1904 and served as its president by 1920. Despite personal tragedies including the loss of both her children, she dedicated more than 40 years to building institutions that sustained Wyoming’s small African American community across multiple generations.

By Lilla Beaulier

I didn’t know my Wyoming History Day project would start at a museum I’d already visited, but that’s exactly what happened.

By Lena (Sunada-Matsumura) Newlin

“A cemetery is a history of people – a perpetual record of yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving and remembering – always.” 

– Inscription on the welcome stone at Greenhill Cemetery, Laramie, Wyoming

By Leslie Waggener

In the spring of 1996, the barren landscape of Hell’s Half Acre transformed into the alien planet Klendathu. For six weeks, Hollywood descended on the geological oddity 40 miles west of Casper, bringing with them director Paul Verhoeven, stars like Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards, and about 300 local extras ready to become Mobile Infantry troopers.

By American Heritage Center Historian Kail Moede

Editor's note: The following post originally appeared on "Discover History," the blog of the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center. We’re pleased to share it with our readers as we mark the 101st anniversary of Nellie Tayloe Ross taking the oath of office as Wyoming's and the nation's first woman governor on January 5, 1925.

When Bill Lagos sent holiday greetings, he didn’t reach for store-bought cards. Instead, he commissioned Carrie Arnold to create elegant pen-and-ink drawings of Wyoming towns.