history

I love the history of Wyoming and I look forward to learning more from one who knows on Sunday, June 5 at 2 p.m. in the Cottonwood Room at the Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. Cheyenne historian Richard T. Ammon will tell stories about Cheyenne that you’ve never heard before and present a slideshow of historic pictures, not seen in prior presentations...

Because of the Oregon Trail, the United States includes California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. We are here in Wyoming because of some very brave people who came before us. We stand on the shoulders of giants. As a nation, we believed it was our Manifest Destiny during the 19th century that the United States was destined to stretch from coast to coast...

It was 46 years ago today, April 13th of 1970, that Apollo 13 was on its ill-fated mission to the moon. The ship was some 200,000 miles from Earth hurtling through the dark and cold vastness of space, when mission controller Sy Liebergot saw a low pressure warning light on an Odyssey hydrogen tank...

Wyoming's been responsible for a ton of "firsts" over the years - check out this list of 14 times the good old Cowboy State led the pack and beat all those other states to the punch.

People come to Wyoming from around the world, especially during Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, to relive the rich history of the great American west. The wide open spaces, the legends and tall tales of daring do along with cowboys and Indians, vast herds of buffalo and cattle and life on the trail and starting a ranch on your own piece of ground...

While you’re trying to get your Christmas cards off to your aunt in Riverton, your brother in Rock Springs and your sister in Burns, you should know what started it all. It was 172 years ago today, in 1843, London merchant Sir Henry Cole realized he didn't have much time left to write Christmas letters to his friends, so he hired an artist and a printer to produce 300 identical Christmas greetings

When I posted the article on this, the 51st anniversary of Jimi Hendrix becoming a star, I saw the video of Jimi burning his guitar many times over the years and other shots on documentaries and stills of that seminal moment in music history that launched careers of musical heavyweights and changed a generation, the nation and eventually the world...

This Young Canadian proved to be a force of nature. Revolutionizing music, literally. He stirred revolution politically. He has boosted education, taken on disabilities and saved farmers, our food supply and ecology for mother earth. I would hope he’s not an arachnophobic...

History's mysteries reveal that it was 35 years ago today, March 22, 1980, that a gunman held up the New York office of Elektra Records,demanding to speak to the EAGLES or JACKSON BROWNE. He gave up when he was told they lived in California...

As a musical artist, you have to hire smart people to take care of business, after you and the band take care of yours. That lesson was driven home by a driver who was about 2 cans short of a 6 pack, back in 2005,  When tour bus driver Stefan Wohl pleaded guilty to dumping 800 pounds of HUMAN WASTE from his vehicle's septic tank through the open grating deck of Chicago's Kinzie Street Bridge... Re

“We listened in a room, through the miles and miles of night. Deep in the heart of the Bible belt in the golden radio light. Mr. Radio, you come down here to keep us company.” Mr. Radio – Roderick Falconer Back in 1933, there were no tablets, smartphones, laptops or computers at all...

On May 14th of 1804, Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on an amazing expedition across the Louisiana Territory at the request of President Thomas Jefferson to open up this great wilderness and discover what lay in the unknown lands...