15+ hour, 13+ min ago   (977+ words) Modern technology has confirmed that two rare Jefferson peace medals in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West collection are authentic artifacts from the 1804 Lewis and Clark expedition. "It’s a profoundly significant find," museum curators said. Two rare Jefferson peace…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1286+ words) A dying Worland man’s desire to have his ashes placed on a 5-foot exact model of the USS Constitution and then put aflame onto Boysen Reservoir didn’t happen. Now the model — with every detail crafted by his own hands — is in…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1352+ words) A group of 250 unemployed protesters hijacked a train in Idaho in spring 1894 and were arrested in Green River, Wyoming. The first major march on the nation’s capital included many Wyomingites who had lost their jobs and were fighting for survival....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1829+ words) Sometime in the past year, an American flag vanished at the site of the 1955 United Air Lines crash that killed 66 people on Medicine Bow Peak. A hiker from Kansas noticed and plans to replace it when she comes back next…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (1414+ words) Legend has it that Thomas Edison's "Eureka!" electric light bulb moment came from a burning pole while fishing at Battle Lake in Wyoming in 1878. There's even a historical marker at the site. But Wyoming historian Phil Roberts says the story…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1717+ words) This is the macabre story of a once-common practice of binding books with human skin — and how Wyoming did that one better by skinning notorious Wild West outlaw "Big Nose George" and making him into a pair of shoes. His…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1581+ words) About 160 years after they died serving at Platte Bridge Station and Fort Caspar, 50 more names have been added to a commemorative headstone at the historic fort. When the “Lest We Forget” project began, there was no casualty list. Now there…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1350+ words) High up in the Medicine Bow National Forest, a log cabin that once anchored one of Wyoming’s old range-sheep operations was in danger of being lost forever until the Little Snake River Museum stepped up. "There will be nothing left…...