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Rachel Walker Hollibaugh attended third grade at Cokeville Elementary School in Cokeville, Wyo., on May 16, 1986, when David and Doris Young took her and 153 other people hostage at the school, and detonated a bomb inside. The Youngs both died that day. Everyone else survived.

Audio and transcript of interview with former Governor Milward Simpson, conducted by John Hinckley, July 18, 1977, in Cody.

Audio and transcript of Gerry Spence interview conducted by Mark Junge.

Audio and transcript of interview with former Governor Ed Herschler conducted by John Hinckley in 1977.

Transcript and audio of Clifford Hansen Interview conducted by John Hinckley.

 

Reel-to-reel audiotapes sent back and forth from a soldier to his family during the Vietnam War land in a box and are stored in a shed for over 40 years. They were given to the Wyoming State Archives to preserve the story of one Wyoming soldier. The tapes are a living history — not only of the turbulence of the era, but also tell the tale of a family trying to stay connected ... even as they are separated by war.

Adam Schneider, born in 1917, was a featherweight boxer in his youth in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin.

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Allred, Golden, Bighorn Basin trapper Washakie Museum and Cultural Center