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The ill-fated Donner Party expedition set off on the Oregon Trail in the spring of 1846. Destined for California, many of the group starved to death when snow stranded them in the Sierra Nevada mountains for the winter. -
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft, first flown in 1970, was plagued with problems. While airline executives originally had high hopes for the plane, ultimately only 386 were ever manufactured and flown.
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Wyoming sheep wagons like those built by the Schulte Hardware Company of Casper provided sheep herders with a tiny house on wheels. -
German Lambert Kreimer trained the world’s first guide dog for the blind in 1916 and went on to have a long career in the U.S. as a guide dog trainer. -
Investigative reporter Nellie Bly is best remembered for her record breaking 72-day trip around the world in 1889. -
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.
