Defending a bandit

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. Read more in Dick Blust’s article, “The Outlaw and his Lawyer: Butch Cassidy and Douglas Preston”

Black History Month in Wyoming

Celebrate Black History Month this February with WyoHistory.org.

• Making a Home in Empire, Wyoming.
• Fort Halleck and the Overland Trail
• The Frontier Index: 'Press on Wheels' in a Partisan Time
• Buffalo Soldiers in Wyoming and the West
• Could Women of Color Vote in the 1870 Election?
• William Jefferson Hardin: Wyoming’s First Black Legislator
• The Forgotten Town of Dana, Wyo.: A Story of Black Legacy and Miners' Rights
• Breaking a Stereotype: Black Rancher Alonzo Stepp
• Mathew Campfield: Barber, Coroner and Pioneer Survivor
• Carrie Burton Overton: First African-American Student at UW
• The Lynching of Joe Martin
• A Lynching in Rock Springs
• The Lynching of Edward Woodson, 1918
• This Great Struggle: African-American Churches in Rock Springs
• James Reeb of Casper, Martyr to Civil Rights.
• The Black 14: Race, Politics, Religion and Wyoming Football
• Dr. Willie Black, Chancellor of the Black Student Alliance, on the Black 14
• Former University of Wyoming Football Player Mel Hamilton on his Life and the Black 14
• Liz Byrd, First Black Woman in Wyoming’s Legislature

The WSA puts out a call for papers

Wyoming Archaeological Society: The call for papers for the WAS Spring Meeting is now open! The meeting will be from May 2 to 4, 2025 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. To get information about deadlines for papers and for answers to other questions, contact  marcia.peterson@wyo.gov.

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