Wyoming History

The Capitol was originally built in 1887 for $150,000, the modern-day equivalent of $4 million. The cost to renovate just the Capitol building was $116 million in 2017.

As Wyoming residents bundle up and brace for frigid temperatures, here's a look back at five of the worst winter storms in the state's history.

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.

On Jan. 20, 1913, a heated debate in the Wyoming House of Representatives turned into a brawl on the floor of the Wyoming State Capitol.

In 1868, Polly Bartlett poisoned 22 men at her family's boarding house in South Pass City, Wyoming.

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.

With the help of a new interactive map, you can now see what the Cowboy State looked like through the ages, dating back to the Cryogenian Period 750 million years ago.

If not for her untimely disappearance in 1937, the most famous female aviator in history might have become a resident of the cowboy state.

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.

Here in Wyoming, Christmas has been officially observed since the territory was first granted statehood in 1890. But a lot has changed since then.

December 25, 1866, soldiers at Fort Laramie gathered for the Christmas party. By night's end, it would be the saddest holiday celebration in Wyoming history.

150 years ago today, on December 10, 1869, legislators in the newly founded Wyoming Territory approved a bill granting women the right to vote. Voting rights were one of many historic milestones for women in what would later become the "Equality State".