Wyoming History

53 years ago today, President John Kennedy was assassinated. Here's a look back at his final trip to Wyoming on Sept. 25, 1963.

Happy 241st birthday to the United States Marine Corps. Formed on November 10, 1775, the elite fighting force has helped protect our country since the Revolutionary War. Over the years, the Marines have only "invaded" a state once July 29...

Get hammered with legendary author Ernest Hemingway as we tour his favorite Wyoming watering holes.

As Mark Twain once wrote, "politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." In fact, the state of Wyoming would not exist today if our elected officials weren't completely full of it. On March 26, 1890, Wyoming’s Congressional Delegate Joseph Carey introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would establish the territory as a state...

Wyoming is considered one of the most conservative political states in the country, and rightfully so. No Democrat has carried the Cowboy State in a Presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. However, Wyoming has voted for eight Democratic nominees since it was granted statehood in 1890...

In 1994, the race for Wyoming's State House was decided by a ping pong ball.

Just in time for next week's election, here's a look back at the wildest political battle in Wyoming history, the infamous fist fight on the floor of the State Legislature in 1913. At the time, the Wyoming House of Representatives consisted of 29 Republicans and 28 Democrats, who were embroiled in a heated debate over who would become Speaker of the House...

Wyoming has voted Republican in the last 12 presidential elections. However, Wyoming wasn't always the conservative political stronghold it is today. In fact, 8 Democratic candidates have carried the Cowboy State over the years. The last Democratic presidential candidate to win Wyoming was Lyndon B...

There have been hundreds of reported ghost sightings in Wyoming. But no other place in the Cowboy State can match the haunted history of F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne. Unexplained and mysterious events have been occurring there since the late 1860s, when Fort D...

Ever wondered how Wyoming families celebrated Halloween 100 years ago? Thanks to the Wyoming State Archives, we can travel all the way back to 1915. This photo was taken 101 years ago at a Halloween party in Cheyenne. If you look closely, you'll notice the homemade decorations and costumes...

Legendary Wyoming rancher Courtney Davis was once part of the legal team that put reputed mafia boss Al Capone behind bars.

The website Journal of the Bizarre recently published a series titled "My Strangest Experience". One of the weirdest stories came from a woman named Emily Burkholder, who lives in Moorcroft, Wyoming. According to Burkholder's account, in 1978, her mother saw an advertisment for a used piano in the local newspaper...