Throwback Thursday – Wyoming 250
“The wild mustang is the poetry of motion, a living testament to freedom’s fire”
Quote from Buffalo Bill Cody, 1846-1917 - American Heritage Center

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Painting with light - Wyoming’s history through the camera lens
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Today’s history is recorded with digital phones, but people have been taking images of our area since photography first became common.

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Throwback Thursday
Wyoming’s History Through Listeners’ Eyes - Wyoming Public Media’s Photo Contest

“The wild mustang is the poetry of motion, a living testament to freedom’s fire.”
– Buffalo Bill Cody

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History through listeners’ Eyes
Adam Bowen - A quick embrace from some wild horses in the McCullough Peaks range at last light

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Wyoming’s History Through Listeners’ Eyes - Wyoming Public Media’s Traveling Exhibit
At the Alice Hardie Stevens Center in Laramie, Wyoming
March 11th at 2:00 pm - Refreshments will be served.
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Celebrating International Women's Day
In the wake of the first Territorial Legislature’s 1869 suffrage act, they would be called to sit on a formal grand jury of up to nine men and six women.
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History through listeners’ Eyes
Shane Epping - Where storms break, and rainbows rise

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Speaker Series - From Bison to Beeves: Cattle Ranching on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Dr. Jeffrey Means, UW History Department Chair.
Alice Hardie Stevens Center, March 11th at 2:00 pm
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Celebrating World Radio Day
Friday, February 13th, 2026.
And celebrating Wyoming Public Media's 60th Anniversary!

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Wyoming’s History Through Listeners’ Eyes - Highest Point in Wyoming

At 13,804 feet, Gannett Peak stands as Wyoming's highest point, outstripping the more famous Grand Teton by 34 feet.

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Memoirs of a Tumbleweed #568: Glenn A. Conner Papers

Glenn Alvin Conner was born in Iowa in 1894. As a youngster, he moved to Nebraska in a covered wagon.

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History Through Listeners' Eyes - Holly Sandefer - Desert Exhale

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African American Community Building in the West Historical Marker In the 1870s, thousands of African Americans fled the poverty and racial unrest that followed the American Civil War to homestead on the plains of Kansas. These migrants were known as the Exodusters. ...

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African American Community Building in the West in #TorringtonWY
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Throwback Thursday - Wyoming 250
Download the 2026 Printable Calendar - Wyoming’s History Through Listeners’ Eyes!
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Little Timmy’s Long Nap: An 11-Year-Old’s Fossil Find in Wyoming | PEP UNLIMITED LLC Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was exploring Bureau of Land Management–managed land with his grandparents, Patti and Tom Patterson, when something unusual caught his eye.

Little Timmy’s Long Nap: An 11-Year-Old’s Fossil Find in Wyoming
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Throwback Thursday!
Davidson Family, Strawberry Hill Dance - 1918
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Wyoming’s History Through Listeners’ Eyes - Wyoming Public Media’s Photo Contest

January featured photo: Davidson Family - Strawberry Hill Dance - 1918
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Download and Print the Wyoming 250 Calendar - Happy New Year!

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Yesterday I learned about Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood.

Who was Charles Gatewood you ask? An honorable man who talked Geronimo and other Apaches into crossing back into the U.S. and surrendering to the army.

General Miles and the army then reneged on every single promise they made to […]

#Lookback - Harold Sanborn 1991-1963 - County 10 A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Harold Sanborn was a professional commercial photogra...

The latest #lookback from the Pioneer Museum in Lander

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sepitone image of a shoshone indian with long grey hair wearing a suit jacket with white shirt and silk neckerchief

After Chief Washakie's death in 1900, the tribe was left without a leader. The office of Chief was replaced with a Council of Chiefs. George Terry was elected Chairman of the Council.
#windrivercountry #rediscoverthewinds #wyominghistory #fremontcountymuseums #nativeamericanhistory #shoshoneindians

#Lookback - Wyoming Blizzard of 1883 - County 10 A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. The winter of 1882-1883 began with only a few small s...

Our latest #lookback is out...Wyoming Blizzard of 1883. A story of hardship during winter travel.

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The "Tie Drive" was a way of transporting railroad ties from Dubois, WY down the Wind River to the tie yard in Riverton, WY to be processed on put on the railroad for transport.
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#Lookback - The Dubois Fish Hatchery - County 10 A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. As one approaches Dubois from the east, a dirt road o...

Fremont County Museums contributes content each week to a local online news service. Last weeks #looback content was all about the Dubois Wyoming Fish Hatchery. Enjoy!
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Rediscover the Winds Episode 9: Opening of the Reservation In this episode, we delve into the complex and controversial opening of Wind River Reservation tribal lands to white settlers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We examine the historical conte...

Enjoy Episode 9 "Opening the Reservation" from Fremont County Museums.

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I think I'd have gone with the Spanish leather option, myself. 😱

"...Osborne then skinned Parrott's body and had a pair of shoes and medical bag made out of the human skin. The bag has never been found. Years later Osborne entered politics and was elected governor of Wyoming. To his 1893 […]