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Percy Station, a stop on the Union Pacific Railroad line, was run by Mary Jane Morey in the 1860s.

The Wool Department at the University of Wyoming has a long history of educating students in the wool industry.

Toe tapping, finger snapping, hummable tunes – that’s what Charles N. Daniels was known for.Daniels exercised considerable influence on American popular…

George Beck was one of the founders of the Shoshone Land and Irrigation Company.The company was formed to divert water from the Shoshone River for…

Dr. Charles Bingham Penrose was a promising young Philadelphia surgeon who moved to Wyoming after suffering from tuberculosis. His friend and fellow…

C. Townsend Ludington was aviation pioneer. His career began when he taught flying at the U.S. Naval Air Station in San Diego during WWI. He admired other…

It’s hard to imagine basketball without the elegant, one handed jump shot. Yet, in the 1930s, basketball coaches insisted players were supposed to keep…

During World War I, the technology of warfare had not advanced enough to cause Wyoming citizens fear of a direct attack by any of the belligerent…

Agnes Wright Spring was a Wyoming writer and historian. And she was a young suffragette just before the 19th amendment granted voting rights to women in…

William Gailmor began his career in the 1930s as an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in New York. By the 1940s he was a nationally known journalist and radio news…