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Nestled in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin, Hot Springs County has been home ot ranchers, freighters, railroad men, lawmen and outlaws, coal miners, and oil field hands. This book, featuring over 200 vintage photographs from the Hot Springs Museum and the Milek family collection, tells the story of the settlement and culture of the County from 1871 to 1940.
84) Weston County
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Tucked in the northeast corner of Wyoming against the Black Hills is Weston County. The county has served as a gateway, byway, and way of life and living. In the beginning, it was home to dinosaurs and volcanoes. Nomadic Indians then wandered through, leaving signs of their passing, and the great Sioux Indian Nations held this land dear. Finally, the area was seen as a place to settle, since the mineral-rich land and rolling grasslands provided an...
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The University of Wyoming was founded in 1886, four years prior to statehood. Provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act, also known as the Land Grant College Act, allowed for the teaching of agriculture, mechanic arts, and military tactics but also included literary and scientific studies. With statehood in 1890, the constitution confirmed the establishment of the university, that all students, regardless of gender or race, could attend, and that the cost...
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Cheyenne, known from its earliest days as the ?Magic City of the Plains,? sprang up almost overnight in 1867 to meet the Union Pacific Railroad?s anticipated westward expansion. Named after the Cheyenne Indian tribe that lived in the area, the wild frontier settlement quickly evolved from a tent town to one of the most sophisticated cities west of the Mississippi River. Cheyenne was settled by a variety of people, including cattle barons, soldiers...
