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WyoHistory.org seeks new assistant editor

Man in combat fatigues and helmet sits in fromt of several boxes that prop up his small typewriter, outdoors in a place with tropical foliage.

Tom Horn Artifacts at the Wyoming State Museum

Evan Green shares how he determined fact from fiction in the Wyoming State Museum’s Tom Horn Collection.

View of the underside of a grasshopper seen through glass so it looks suspended above a road in a biright summer landscape

Grasshoppers Tender Grasshoppers Tough

Ellis Hein shares his memories of the grasshopper years.

View looking down at the Wyoming Supreme Court justices seated in the restored room

Exhibits at the State Capitol

Learn more about the new exhibit now being installed in the Wyoming State Capitol, just in time for the legislative session!

On the Road: How Wyoming’s New Roving Archivist Program is Supporting Local History

[Editor's note: This blog originally appeared on the blog of the American Heritage Center. The Roving Archivist Program is a joint effort by the American Heritage Center, the Wyoming State Archives and the Wyoming State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB).]

Book cover for "Camp Douglas" by Lee Ann Siebken; cover art shows black and white photo of family with five adult men, a woman and two children family

Camp Douglas: Wyoming’s World War II Prisoner of War Base Camp

Read our review of Lee Ann Siebken’s "Camp Douglas: Wyoming’s World War II Prisoner of War Base Camp"

Kylie McCormick holding a wooden replica of the Wyoming State flag

A New Project Director at WyoHistory.org

Look back with us at how Tom Rea founded WyoHistory.org, while we welcome our new project director and editor: Kylie L. McCormick!

group of female buffalo stand on dry sagebrush plain

Buffalo Return to Wind River

Buffalo restoration continues at a good pace on Wind River

woman polic officer in uniform hold up and plaques with a photo of her ancestor Harris

Two Harrises of the Rock Springs police

Award-winning Officer Tiffany Harris of the Rock Springs Police is the great-great-granddaughter of a Rock Springs deputy killed in 1915 after an armed robbery.

A group of about 20 people pose on a dry prairie site

An Afternoon on Lightning Creek

History buffs take a field trip to the site of a last fight of the Indian wars.