oral history

The Life Between The Rails oral history project tells the stories of Union Pacific employees from their perspective. These stories are gathered and displayed for the public to experience at the American Heritage Center.

ReStorying the West is a three-year project, aiming to collect stories from Wyomingites throughout Wyoming. University of Wyoming Professor Nancy Small discusses the project’s origin, progress, and future.

Laramie’s American Heritage Center hosts its annual Halloween Celebration. This year, the focus expands to worldwide spooky traditions.

Stewart Shipman and his family live in Laramie. And they have a pretty unique tradition that has lasted over 70 years. He told Wyoming Public Radio the story.

With Valentine’s Day approaching, meet Ed and Carmela Conning from Cody. They got together in Long Island, New York back in the mid 70’s. Here’s the story…

Peg, Betty, and Dixie Johnson are sisters-in-law who married into an Elk Mountain ranching family. All three women played an important role in the local…

Stories about people so drawn to Wyoming, they packed up and moved to the Cowboy state.

In the summer of 1988, 36 percent of Yellowstone National Park was on fire. To this day, it remains the largest wildfire since Yellowstone became a…

As a young man, Richard Garber and his brother served as the grave diggers for the cemetery in Big Horn. They oversaw the interment of their friends and…

Die-hard skier Ed Bushnell invented his own helmet-mounted video camera long before the device became de rigueur for skiers. He recalls filming clients…