| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Buffalo Bill, Wyoming Town Founder and Irrigation Tycoon | Robert E. Bonner |
| Byrd, Liz, Wyoming legislator | Lori Van Pelt |
| Camp Monaco | John Clayton |
| Campbell, John | Wyoming State Archives |
| Campbell, John, first territorial governor of Wyoming | Tom Rea |
| Campfield, Mathew, barber and Natrona County coroner | Tom Rea |
| Canary, Martha Jane | Rebecca Hein |
| Carey, Joseph | Wyoming State Archives |
| Carey, Robert | Wyoming State Archives |
| Carlisle, Bill | Lori Van Pelt |
Esther Hobart Morris, appointed justice of the peace in South Pass City in 1870, was the first woman in the nation to hold public office. While she is notable for that and for her longtime advocacy for women’s rights, much of her fame comes from something she almost certainly didn’t do.
Suffragist and temperance orator Theresa Jenkins delivered a key address at Wyoming’s statehood celebration on July 23, 1890. Later, she spoke widely in Colorado and other states, promoting Wyoming’s example in women’s rights, and spoke at the 1920 W.C.T.U. World's Convention in London.
Wyoming’s trails, roads and highways follow centuries-old Native American hunting and trade routes. For generations, Shoshone, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Ute, Lakota and Crow people gathered plants, visited family and tracked game along watercourses and over mountain passes in the seasonal subsistence patterns of their lives.
Not only was Wyoming Territory the first government in the world to pass a law allowing women unrestricted voting rights—the territory and state can claim a number of other firsts as well. See the list for dozens more firsts for Wyoming women.
When Wyoming became the 23rd state to ratify the amendment, on January 24, 1973, supporters decorated Esther Hobart Morris’s statue at the Wyoming Capitol with flowers. The amendment has yet to become part of the U.S. Constitution.
Estimates of the numbers of women who voted in the principal towns of Wyoming Territory, and a review of the methods used to make those estimates.
A look at the law, an anecdote from the election and some population statistics.
According to newspapers at the time, Louisa Swain, 70, of Laramie, was the first woman in Wyoming Territory to cast a vote under the new law granting full suffrage to women.
In October 1941, the Allies struggled in World War II while daredevil parachutist George Hopkins was stranded on Devils Tower in northeastern Wyoming, pulling public attention away from the war. Expert climbers guided Hopkins down after six days.
