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.
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".
December 5, 1944, a Japanese balloon bomb landed just outside of Thermopolis, Wyoming. Around 6:15 p.m., four coal miners heard a whistling noise overhead, followed by an explosion that sent flames parachuting across the night sky.
In "The Girl Guards of Wyoming: The Lost Women's Militia", Cheyenne author and historian Dan Lyon recounts the legendary tale of Company K, the first all-female military troop in American 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.
It took Wyoming nearly 30 years after becoming a state until it adopted a state flag. Today one of the original flags hangs with pride in this museum in Buffalo.
The iconic bucking bronco and rider adorns license plates, UW football jerseys, and the state quarter. But how much do you know about the horse named Steamboat?
If you're a sucker for random facts and a proud to a fault Wyomingite the book "On This Day in Wyoming History" by Casper native Patrick T. Holscher is for you.
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.
Imagine a baseball game where the players entered the field in shackles. This field of dreams was surrounded by armed guards aiming their rifles at the players.
Sometimes our history is a series of unanswered questions. Take this old letter a man pulled out of a wall he was demolishing out of a Civil War-era home.