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American Heritage Center/Colonel Murray C. Bernays of the U.S. War Department played an instrumental role in establishing the framework for the Nuremberg Trials, following World War II. -
American Heritage Center/Bicycling has been a popular pastime in Laramie for more than a century. Elmer Lovejoy, who owned Laramie’s bike shop, also helped found the Laramie Bicycle Club.
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Calamity Jane was a larger than life character who roamed the Wild West, acting as a military scout and bullwhacker. She is said to have been the first western woman in the Black Hills during the gold rush days. -
Rock Hudson was an influential actor whose death from AIDS related complications helped raise awareness of the disease.
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Russell Brines was a war correspondent who was interned at the Santo Tomas camp in the Philippines during World War II.
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Preservation of the Arapaho language and culture is the focus on the Arapaho Language and Culture camp, held each summer near Little Wind River.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder is best known for the Little House series of books she wrote describing life as a pioneer family in United States in the 1870s and 80s.
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Edward Ivinson, one of Laramie’s early businessmen and an influential leader, came West in 1867 to open a dry goods store.
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The Wyoming Hereford Ranch was instrumental in the propagation of Hereford cattle across the United States. The ranch is considered to be one of the greatest purebred cattle breeding establishments in the world.
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Robert D. Burman was a University of Wyoming faculty member who travelled to Kabul, Afghanistan in 1969 to help advise the University of Kabul on agricultural best practices.
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Nancy Schwartz wrote The Hollywood Writers’ Wars to document the history of the Screen Writers Guild. Members of the guild were blacklisted for their political activities in the 1930s and 40s.
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HOPE recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Hispanic youth in Cheyenne.
