Wyoming History

Old West history is even better with a cold beer in your hand. Join us for a bar crawl as we pay a virtual visit to the ten longest running saloons in the Cowboy State.

Like Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon and Cheyenne Mayor Marian Orr, Joseph Carey and F.E. Warren were both Republicans, they shared common political beliefs, and they hated each other's guts.

Did you know Cheyenne is not the "permanent" capital city of Wyoming? Lander may also have a legal claim to the Capitol in the Wyoming Constitution.

No, it's not a hotel from the frontier days, or a bar that claims to be where the Bucket of Blood gang was caught.

Park tells the story of Frank Emi, a second-generation Japanese American who was interred at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in North-Central Wyoming.

May 16, 1986, a deranged former police officer and his wife stormed into Cokeville Elementary School and took 154 students and teachers hostage. The hostage crisis has since become known as "The Cokeville Miracle".

If you have a garage door opener, thank Elmer Lovejoy. March 26, 1918, the Laramie inventor received a patent for the first garage door tracking system.

The Dome of Doom opened on February 20, 1982, when the Pokes pummeled Air Force in front of 15,000 fans.

Everts was an I.R.S. Agent from Montana invited to participate in the first official expedition to Yellowstone in 1870. His 37-day journey through the wilderness was marred by a series of unfortunate events.

Ford’s grandfather Charles Henry King was a prominent banker who helped establish several Wyoming cities, including Casper, Douglas, Riverton, and Shoshone. The future President also worked as a Yellowstone Park Ranger in 1936.

Amy disappeared on July 24th, 1997. What happened to her?

Charles Starkweather was one of the most infamous serial killers in American history. Thanks to a friendly stranger on a desolate highway in Wyoming, his reign of terror finally ended just outside of Douglas on January 29, 1958.