American Heritage Center

Toe tapping, finger snapping, hummable tunes – that’s what Charles N. Daniels was known for.Daniels exercised considerable influence on American popular…

Dr. Charles Bingham Penrose was a promising young Philadelphia surgeon who moved to Wyoming after suffering from tuberculosis. His friend and fellow…

It’s hard to imagine basketball without the elegant, one handed jump shot. Yet, in the 1930s, basketball coaches insisted players were supposed to keep…

During World War I, the technology of warfare had not advanced enough to cause Wyoming citizens fear of a direct attack by any of the belligerent…

William Gailmor began his career in the 1930s as an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in New York. By the 1940s he was a nationally known journalist and radio news…

By the 1960s, comic books were seen as having no redeeming social value and too simplistic for adults.That changed in 1961 when writer Stan Lee and artist…

Seth Parker was a fictional preacher created by radio star Phillips Lord. The character was based on Lord's own grandfather. Lord played the elderly…

Minnie Corum wrote a memoir titled "I Licked a Stamp" that detailed her life as postmistress in Encampment, Wyoming, from 1918 to 1946.She was not only a…

German-born artist Hans Kleiber immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager in 1900. He developed what he called "an abiding love for whatever the out-of-doors…

The black-footed ferret is a small weasel-like animal that once occupied the Great Plains.These reclusive mammals hunt prairie dogs in their burrows.In…