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Mike Sullivan, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland

Four years after finishing his second term as governor of Wyoming, Mike Sullivan was named U.S. ambassador to Ireland. Sullivan arrived in Dublin in 1999, when the ink was barely dry on the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace in Northern Ireland after three decades of disastrous bombings, murders and political stalemate.

Louise Graf, Jury Foreman and Green River Citizen

In May 1950, Louise Spinner Graf served as foreman on the first Wyoming jury, with one minor exception, to include women since 1871. Born in Green River, Wyo., she attended university and worked in local banks. After marrying George Graf in 1930, she quit working to raise their daughter, and remained active in the community the rest of her life.

Caroline Fuller, Pioneer Dentist

In 1905, Caroline Fuller came to Thermopolis, Wyo., and entered a field usually reserved for men—dentistry. How she came to take dental impressions and pull teeth for sheep barons and cowboys in remote parts of Wyoming is only one phase of her interesting life.

Frank Shepperson: Rancher, Rodeo Champion and Pilot

Frank Shepperson has ranched with his family northwest of Casper, Wyo., for many years. In this 2014 interview, Shepperson, a former national rodeo champion, talks at length about rodeo, ranching—and airplanes. He is a past president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and former chairman of the Natrona County School Board.

Oleta Thomas: "My Middle Name Is 'I Love Adventure' "

Oleta Thomas often visited the Heart Mountain relocation camp as a teenager during World War II, when her father had a job there. In this 2012 interview she remembers those times and later ones as a home ec teacher in 1950s Cody and a massage therapist in Casper since the 1980s.

Edna Garrett: Growing up in Salt Creek, Wyo.

Edna Garrett was born in Salt Creek, Wyo., in 1926, and grew up with her eight siblings in a house with no running water in a boomtown going bust, where her parents ran a secondhand store. This interview was conducted two years before her death in 2013.

A Drive with Henry Jensen through Historic Central Wyoming

Former sheepherder, ranch foreman and schoolteacher Henry Jensen was past president of Wyoming’s historical and archeological societies. One day in the early 1990s he and Casper science teachers Dana Van Burgh and Terry Logue drove southwest from Casper to Devil’s Gate, noting all kinds of geology, archeology and history along the way.

Casper Author Charlotte Babcock: Oh, My Goodness, the Memories!

Charlotte Babcock, Casper College class of 1949, shares memories of her life—including stints as schoolteacher, flower-shop owner, book author and community-minded volunteer—with student interviewer Nichole Simoneaux in this March 2012 interview conducted at the college.

Adam LeRoy Strausner: Educators Are “Merchants of Hope”

LeRoy Strausner served as the fourth president of Casper College from 1991-2004. In September 2013, Dana Van Burgh interviewed him at the facility’s Western History Center about his life and his long career at the college.

Joye Kading Oral History

Joye Kading served as secretary for the successive commanding colonels in charge of purchasing, building and operating the Casper Army Air Base during World War II. In this 2011 interview from the Casper College Western History Center, Kading recalls her experiences and describes many of the wartime photographs she collected in a scrapbook.

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Petersen, Carol, Cokeville bombing oral history	Wyoming State Archives
Roberts, LeaKae, Cokeville survivor oral history	Wyoming State Archives
Sailors, Kenny oral history	Wyoming State Archives
Schneider, Adam, Featherweight Boxer	Washakie Museum and Cultural Center
Shepperson, Frank, oral history	Mark Junge
Simpson, Milward - interview	Wyoming State Archives
Sparks, Kliss, Cokeville bombing survivor oral history	Wyoming State Archives
Spence, Gerry - interview	Wyoming State Archives
Strausner, Adam LeRoy, oral history	Dana Van Burgh
Sullivan, Mike, U.S. ambassador to Ireland, oral history	Tom Rea
Thaxton, Edith, on Dances in the Bighorn Basin	Washakie Museum and Cultural Center
Thomas, Oleta, oral history	Casper College Western History Center
Thomson, Thyra, Wyoming Secretary of State 1963-1987	Wyoming State Archives
Van Buskirk, Harold, on Running a Bighorn Basin Grocery Store	Washakie Museum and Cultural Center
Vietnam: Army pilot Bill Graves swaps audio tapes with his family in 1967	Wyoming State Archives
Walker, Glenna, Cokeville survivor oral history	Wyoming State Archives
Walker, Kevin, Cokeville survivor oral history	Wyoming State Archives

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Oral Histories

Mike Sullivan, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland

Louise Graf, Jury Foreman and Green River Citizen

Caroline Fuller, Pioneer Dentist

Frank Shepperson: Rancher, Rodeo Champion and Pilot

Oleta Thomas: "My Middle Name Is 'I Love Adventure' "

Edna Garrett: Growing up in Salt Creek, Wyo.

A Drive with Henry Jensen through Historic Central Wyoming

Casper Author Charlotte Babcock: Oh, My Goodness, the Memories!

Adam LeRoy Strausner: Educators Are “Merchants of Hope”

Joye Kading Oral History

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