According to the Wyoming Historical Society, on December 1, 1869, in an initial move to protect big game, the Wyoming Territory Legislative Assembly banned selling elk, deer, antelope or “mountain sheep” between February and August. That same day, the assembly created Uinta County. On December 2, 1892, newly elected Democrat John E. Osborne proclaimed himself to be Wyoming’s governor and had a notary administer the oath of office a month before he was supposed to. The next day, acting Governor Amos W. Barber asserted that Osborne had “by stealth and force effected an entrance into the capitol building at Cheyenne.” Osborne was eventually officially inaugurated in January though. On December 5, 1921, the first telephone lines for Thermopolis were approved to be installed in the town’s alleys. On December 6, 1909, it was reported that a dirigible line was looking for land for a base in Cheyenne. On December 7, 1890, the subject of the sermon at Rawlins’ Presbyterian Church was Choosing a Husband.