American Heritage Center

In the 1920s and 30s, the U.S. Government sponsored a voluntary military preparedness program known as the Citizens’ Military Training Camp.

Some call Alexander Pushkin the Shakespeare of Russia. Although he only lived to the age of 37, his poetry, novels and plays are today considered classics of Russian literature.

George Zuckerman wrote the screenplay for the 1956 film Written on the Wind. It was based on the scandalous death of Zachary Reynolds, heir to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company fortunes.

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.

Entertainer Bob Hope had a career that spanned nearly eighty years. He performed on radio, stage, television and in movies and was one of the founding fathers of modern standup comedy.

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.