| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Paul, Elizabeth, pioneer grave of | Randy Brown |
| POW camps, World War II Wyoming | Cheryl O’Brien |
| Powell, John Wesley | Rebecca Hein |
| Race Horse, Bannock off-reservation hunting rights and | John Clayton |
| Richards, William A. and 1874 boundary survey | Lucia McCreery |
| Roosevelt, Theodore visits Wyoming in 1903 Visit | Rebecca Hein |
| Sellett, Mike, Jackson Hole News publisher | Kerry Drake |
| Shoshone Cavern National Monument | Phil Roberts |
| Spirit Mountain Cave | Phil Roberts |
| Stegner, Wallace and South Pass preservation | Will Bagley |
The abundant vertebrate fossils of the Green River formation in western Wyoming have been known to science since the 1860s. Most are fish, buried in lime-rich mud at the bottom of freshwater lakes about 50 million years ago. Fossil Butte National Monument, west of Kemmerer, Wyo. was created by Congress in 1973 to protect a site extremely rich in these fossils.
Lucy Morrison Moore, “The Sheep Queen of Wyoming,” was a leading sheep producer during the heyday of public-land sheep ranching from the 1880s to 1920s. Smart, tough and slightly eccentric, she and her family survived brutal, isolated conditions and attacks from cattle ranchers.
Western Wyoming’s Green River drains 4,000 miles of forested mountains and high desert, home to migrating wildlife, grazing cattle, a few thousand people, and in recent decades a booming natural-gas business. Since prehistoric times, people have worked to balance the basin’s resources for their own benefit — and that struggle continues today.
Guernsey State Park, near Guernsey, Wyo., boasts an elegant group of stone, timber and iron buildings built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, and overlooking scenic Guernsey Reservoir.
