| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Unthank, Alvah grave, Oregon Trail site of | Randy Brown |
| Vore Buffalo Jump | WyomingHeritage.org |
| W Hill, Laramie, origins of | Phil Roberts |
| Wagon Box Fight | Kerry Drake |
| Wanamaker, Joseph | Johanna Wickman |
| Warm Springs, Oregon Trail site of | WyoHistory.org |
| White Mountain Petroglyphs | WyomingHeritage.org |
| Willow Spring, Oregon Trail site of | WyoHistory.org |
| World War I Memorial, Laramie | Kim Viner |
| World War II, Wyoming during | Tom Mast |
The Connor Battlefield is a park on Tongue River in Ranchester, Wyo., marking the spot where Brig. Gen. Patrick Connor and about 475 U.S. troops and Pawnee scouts in August 1865 attacked a village of 500 Arapaho under the leadership of Black Bear and Old David. The Arapaho suffered 33 killed, and the troops burned their lodges and drove off most of the horse herd. Today the park offers picnic grounds, a campground and a monument to the event.
The Ames Monument, a 60-foot-high granite pyramid, was completed in 1882 at the highest point on the Union Pacific Railroad, to honor railroad financiers Oakes and Oliver Ames. The tracks have since been moved, but the monument is still easily visible and accessible from Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyo.
Medicine Lodge State Archaeological Site, northeast of Hyattville, contains pictographs and petroglyphs left by Wyoming’s ancient people, as well as an attractive, state-run campsite and small museum. Archaeologists have found evidence at the site of human habitation stretching back 10,000 years.
The Carbon cemetery has been in use since 1868, when the town of Carbon was founded next to coal mines on the Union Pacific Railroad. The town has long been a ghost town, but interest in the cemetery revived in 2002, when a local association began refurbishing it and researching the lives of the people buried there.
