Investigative reporter Nellie Bly is best remembered for her record-breaking 72-day trip around the world in 1889.

“Oil on the Brain” was one of dozens of songs written about the Pennsylvania oil boom of the 1860s.

Ernest Tidyman was one of the top Hollywood screenwriters in the early 1970s. He won an Oscar for The French Connection and an NAACP Image Award for Shaft.

Mort R. Lewis was one of the writers for the widely popular and long running TV show Bonanza. The show first aired on NBC in 1959.

Robert “Bob” Warner was a beloved professor of journalism at the University of Wyoming in the 1970s and 80s.

Gene Vidal, a pioneer of civil aviation, had executive roles with a number of early passenger airlines in the 1920s and 30s, including what was to become TWA, Eastern Airlines, and Northeast Airlines.

John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the world’s first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight in June of 1919. They flew from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland.

John D. Rockefeller was a petroleum industry tycoon and philanthropist who founded Standard Oil. He became the first American billionaire.

George Washington’s Farewell Address, written to the American public in 1796, outlined his intention to retire and his concerns about the future of the United States.

Major Gorham Gates Kimball trailed 3,700 sheep from Red Bluff, California to Boise City, Idaho in 1865. It was an arduous trip for men and sheep alike.