G.K. Warren: The Explorer of Nebraska Territory

Governeur Kemble Warren explored thousands of miles of Nebraska Territory in the 1850s. This was no small accomplishment, given that the Territory encompassed most, if not all, of the modern states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. Read more about the explorations of G.K. Warren.

The Gallows That Hanged Tom Horn

Although James Julian is likely not a household name for many, his invention intertwines with some of the biggest names in Wild West legend. Julian’s invention of the hydraulic gallows impacted the way capital punishment was meted out in Wyoming for more than five decades. Read more about this gruesome invention.

With the Pride a Monarch Might View His Kingdom: Martha Waln, Bighorn Basin Homesteader

Martha James, 21, left Wales in 1882 and came to Wyoming as maid to an upper-crust English bride. The next year Martha married a cowboy and came to the Bighorn Basin. Decades later, she told her stories. Her stories illuminate the contours of change in Wyoming at the time.

“Then I breathed freely:” Black Women Vote in Wyoming, 1870

On the morning of September 6, 1870, Wyoming women prepared themselves for a momentous day—the first election since the Territorial Legislature had passed the world’s first woman suffrage bill. Among the voters were women from Wyoming’s Black communities. They were the first Black women in U.S. history to vote.

The Outlaw and his Lawyer: Butch Cassidy and Douglas Preston

He was a member of Wyoming’s Constitutional Convention of 1889, a signer of Wyoming’s State Constitution, a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives and served two terms as Wyoming’s attorney general, but Douglas A. Preston is remembered for being the lawyer for Butch Cassidy, the outlaw.

Governeur Kemble Warren explored thousands of miles of Nebraska Territory in the 1850s. This was no small accomplishment, given that the Territory encompassed most, if not all, of the modern states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. Read more about the explorations of G.K. Warren.
Although James Julian is likely not a household name for many, his invention intertwines with some of the biggest names in Wild West legend.
With the Pride a Monarch Might View His Kingdom: Martha Waln, Bighorn Basin Homesteader
“Then I breathed freely:” Black Women Vote in Wyoming, 1870
The Outlaw and his Lawyer: Butch Cassidy and Douglas Preston

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