COMMEMORATE AMERICA’S 250TH ANNIVERSARY IN WYOMING!
Wyoming Public Media celebrates 250 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Join in on the year-long celebration of Wyoming’s rich history, arts, culture, and music. Listen to historical stories, exciting performances, educational activities, and more. Watch for featured Wyoming 250 programming aired on Wyoming Public Radio, Wyoming Sounds, and The Modern West podcasts. Listen to short summaries of Wyoming’s history with Archives on the Air.
Wyoming Public Media and the American Heritage Center partnered to produce Archives on the Air, which are minute-long windows into the past. Wyoming Public Media also works with the Buffalo Bill Center of the West to produce the Museum Minutes.
- Enjoy your journey through Wyoming’s history!
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March Speaker Series - Jeffery Means -
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. -
Captain Ralph S. Johnson was an aviation pioneer who developed plane de-icing systems and the “stabilized approach” landing technique, which standardized how pilots make their descents. -
In Vietnam in 1968, Bonnie and Clyde, two elephants trained to haul logs, were moved 170 miles by air in a Green Beret coordinated effort known as “Operation Bahroom”. Villagers in Tra Bong used the elephants to transport timber to their community sawmill. -
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. -
Henry Sinclair Drago’s book Notorious Ladies of the Frontier chronicled the life and times of more than a dozen women who were famous and infamous across the West. -
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. -
