Wyoming history

This summer kicked off celebrations for America’s 250th. But as federal cuts to the humanities have sunk in, a statewide nonprofit is scaling back some of what it planned.

Grant funds will support a veteran's oral history project that will be archived in the Wyoming State Archives, an internship to support 250th-related programming in Albany County and a bison sculpture in Uinta County.

The Casper Air Army base played an outsized role in the city during World War II, but did you know it also was a significant part of its Black history? A recently unearthed newspaper column chronicled the Black GIs stationed there, and its discovery shocked the son of its author, who had no idea of his father’s history there.

A new exhibition on display at the Jackson Hole History Museum shines the spotlight on female photographers and painters in the American West at a time of great change. Their work offers an intimate look into the lives of creative women on ranches in Wyoming and Montana and offers a different artistic take on that moment in history.

Wyomingite Walt Gasson has published award winning essays in "Wyoming Wildlife Magazine," "High Country News" and "Trout Magazine." They’re now included in a new book titled "Craven Creek." Wyoming Public Media’s Grady Kirkpatrick recently spoke with the author about the essays.

The town of Clearmont is a long way from anywhere. Located in rural southeast Sheridan County, on U.S Highway 14/16, it's 40 miles from Sheridan and about 30 from Buffalo. With a population of approximately 150 residents, it's a quiet, largely agricultural community located in the Clear Creek Valley.

The National Park Service celebrates one hundred years of illustrating to the world Yellowstone’s wonder.1. Northern Pacific Railroad brochure back cover…

Seventy-four years ago as of last Friday, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order to imprison thousands of Japanese Americans in internment…

Two University of Wyoming archeologists are co-authors on a new paper in the scientific journal PNAS that challenges the traditional understanding of…

A historian, author and educator, Shannon Smith is passionate about the humanities especially Western American, Women's, and American Indian History. She…