Archives On The Air

June Vanleer Williams was an actress and journalist in the 1960s and 70s. She befriended the coach of the Harlem Globetrotters and collected postcards from his travels around the world.

Trumpeter Joe Colling accompanied many early films, performing live for silent films and recording movie scores as film technology advanced during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Broadcaster Tommy Cowan spent nearly 40 years on the air with WNYC, which was the radio station owned and operated by New York City.

Democrat Lester C. Hunt was a successful Wyoming Secretary of State, Wyoming’s 19th governor and a U.S. Senator.

Bob Jairell, known as the “snowman”, worked on controlling blowing snow for more than 36 years as part of the U.S. Forest Service. His expertise helped ranchers dealing with frigid conditions across Wyoming and beyond.

Wyoming girls have been involved in Girl Scouts since 1922. Casper had twenty-one Girl Scout troops and Brownie packs.

Dick Nelson and his family came face to face with the heavily armed Buck Hanby Gang when they tried to pay a neighborly Christmas visit.

Downed planes in the arctic presented particularly difficult challenges to pilots and crew in World War II.

Finis Mitchell was an influential Wyoming mountaineer and photographer in the 20th century. Mitchell Peak, which was named in his honor, is located in the Wind River Range.

Professor Samuel Knight founded the UW Science Camp in 1925. It provided generations of students from universities across the U.S. the chance to study Wyoming’s unique geology in the field.