American Heritage Center

The 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora! was an historically accurate retelling of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese air force in 1941.

The 1920 “West Coast Gasoline Famine” was caused by a more than 900 percent increase the number of privately owned cars from 1911 to 1919.

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.