Author and photographer Teresa Jordan wrote Cowgirls: Women of the American West. The book, published in 1992, captured stories of authentic cowgirls, past and present.

When President Warren G. Harding died in office in 1923, the nation turned out in mourning.

Lieutenant Colonel R.S. Hartz and a crew of five Army aviators flew “Around the Rim” of the U.S. in 1919 to promote commercial aviation.

The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 occurred when two prospectors salted an area of northwestern Colorado with coarse diamonds and then persuaded wealthy investors to pay them for rights to their claim.

George C. Frison left his ranch at the age of thirty-seven to become a professor at the University of Wyoming where he was the head of the Department of Anthropology.

W. Dillard “Pic” Walker was named an “Elder Statesman of Aviation” by the National Aeronautic Association in 1992. The award capped a 40-year career as a pilot and aviation pioneer.

Although he wasn’t from the West, author and screenwriter Henry Sinclair Drago penned more than one hundred Westerns.

“Shark Sense”, an educational manual prepared by the Aviation Training Division of the U.S. Navy, sought to dispel myths about sharks and reassure aviators training for the possibility of being adrift in shark-infested waters.

In 1927, members of the Lander Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign to attract new businesses and residents to the area.

Glenn A. Conner was a Wyoming cowboy who documented the experiences of his youth in “Memoirs of a Tumbleweed”.