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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Learn more in the George C. Frison papers at UW’s American Heritage Center. -
Painting with light - Wyoming’s history through the camera lens -
In the nineteen-teens and twenties, plane flight was booming, but unregulated. New York City established an aerial police force to help reign in the chaos. -
Walter Doniger had a long career as a writer, director, and producer for film and television. -
The Gettysburg opera premiered at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in 1938. It was part of a Depression-era Works Progress Administration Federal Music Project designed to employ previously unemployed musicians. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
L. Harmon Wilmoth was a physician who practiced medicine in central Wyoming beginning in 1926. His patients included members of the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes living on the Wind River Reservation. -
Virginia Kirkus was a groundbreaking pioneer in the publishing industry. Her Kirkus’ Bookshop Service which provided pre-release reviews of books to libraries and booksellers lives on today in the Kirkus Review, now available online.
