In 1896, a Fremont County jury convicted Thomas Tway of sexually assaulting Julia Stevens. A year later, the Wyoming Supreme Court threw out the verdict, ruling that she hadn’t resisted “to the utmost of her power.” The court’s assumptions about how a victim should behave still echo today.

Pull over, read the sign, learn what happened here. Wyoming’s Monuments and Markers Program has refreshed its interactive map so travelers, teachers, and history lovers can find the state’s historical markers before they ever leave home.

Jeremy Johnston was an extraordinary historian, dedicated to his community, family, and friends. Lynn Houze shares her memories of her "go-to Wyoming history mentor" and special friend.

"Wyoming’s History in 76 Objects and Places," a new 182-page volume with essays from more than 50 Wyoming historians, uses everyday and iconic objects to explore the state’s past, timed to the Wyoming 250 celebrations of America’s semiquincentennial.

Mormon Charlie is usually a footnote in Evanston’s story about China Mary. His own story, three spellings of his name and two different wives across two death certificates, suggests he deserves a chapter of his own.

Where did “Powder River, Let ‘er Buck” really come from? A look at Edward J. Farlow’s 1939 account of a 1893 cattle drive, a nearly dry riverbed, and a cowhand’s boastful saloon tale in Casper.

Tiffany & Co. is famous for jewelry, not firearms—but a revolver that passed through their workshop in 1894 tells a different story. Danny Michael traces its silver grips, a Civil War battle scene, and a Rough Rider owner to their new home at the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

WyoHistory.org’s Founding Figures project adds Savino C. Lopez, the Cheyenne civil rights leader who spent three decades building organizations that gave Wyoming's Latino community a political voice. Researched and written by his granddaughter Susanna Lopez, his story traces an arc from a boy in New Mexico Territory who lost his father to violence, through Depression-era sugar beet fields, to the founding presidency of the Latin American Association, Inc.

As the nation marks America’s 250th anniversary, WyoHistory.org looks at the ideals behind Wyoming’s own founding document. When delegates ratified the Wyoming Constitution in November 1889, they built on the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights—and went further, declaring that “all members of the human race are equal.”