Wyoming History - Celebrating 250 Years of America
Join us as we celebrate 250 years of America with a Wyoming feature. Check out news stories featuring our history, podcasts with Wyoming stories, photos displaying the beauty of the state, and even more content from Wyoming Public Media.
Wyoming 250 Content
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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. -
Author and photographer Teresa Jordan wrote Cowgirls: Women of the American West. The book, published in 1992, captured stories of authentic cowgirls, past and present. -
When President Warren G. Harding died in office in 1923, the nation turned out in mourning. -
Wyoming Stories.
Wyoming History Stories
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Paleontologists collaborated with members of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe to honor the fact that the dinosaur was found on the tribe’s ancestral lands. We hear how the project braided together two different ways of knowing from an Eastern Shoshone elder and a research scientist. -
Donovin Sprague is a member of the Minnicoujou Lakota tribe and an instructor at Sheridan College. He said the transcontinental railroad took a big toll on bison habitat. -
A beloved gift shop celebrating Buffalo Bill Cody closed. What’s that mean for the showman’s legacy?Denver Parks and Recreation says the more than 100-year-old log building needs work. The agency says the closure presents an opportunity to revisit how Cody’s story is told. -
Known as the “red house,” it was originally owned by descendants of the region’s early settlers. It was slated for demolition before it was picked up off its foundation and moved 50 miles south.This was all coordinated by the local organization Shacks on Racks, which also bought the land and renovated the house, for a fraction of the typical price of new construction.
Archives on the Air.
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Preservation of the Arapaho language and culture is the focus on the Arapaho Language and Culture camp, held each summer near Little Wind River. -
Bicycling has been a popular pastime in Laramie for more than a century. Elmer Lovejoy, who owned Laramie’s bike shop, also helped found the Laramie Bicycle Club. -
The artwork of Thomas Moran inspired Americans to take an interest in preserving the beauties of nature found in Yellowstone. -
Chief Washakie was leader of the Eastern Shoshone from the 1840s until his death in 1900.He exhibited bravery, skills as an orator and diplomat, and a… -
Shoshone Chief Tendoy led the Lemhi Shoshone from 1863 until his death in 1907. He was considered a friend by the white settlers of Lemhi Valley.
Wyoming Podcasts.
Exactly 100 years to the day after a woman named Eleanor Davis became the first recorded woman to ever climb the Grand Teton – a nearly 14,000 foot-tall mountain that’s the namesake for Grand Teton National Park – an all-female group of climbers is summiting the peak to celebrate her legacy. Hannah Habermann tagged along for the adventure.
Kirk Speckhals spent most of his summers in Wyoming mountain biking. He lives in Jackson Hole and always felt comfortable venturing into bear country. But that all changed on a beautiful August day when Kirk found himself face-to-face with a grizzly bear..
Museum Minute.
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Pocket gophers get their name from their large fur-lined pockets used to store food.
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Photography from the state.
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Sunrise over Lake Marie
Lars Kotthoff
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Dueling moose
Danielle Laurmann
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Winter at the Barn
Levi Hime
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— Photos I Want/Aleigha Wachtel - Wyoming Nature- Facing West Highland Cow faces towards the snowy range mountains West of Laramie.jpeg
Facing West Highland Cow faces towards the snowy range mountains West of Laramie
Aleigha Wachtel
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Medicine Bow Peak Sunset
Dana Gage
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Old horse skeletons found at rural property.
Kristin Hugo
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