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February, 2012


Horse Creek Cowboys, 1890's.

By request, a page of music by Horse Creek Cowboy has been added. The page includes old gospel music played on the midi guitar, theatre organ music, and the full band in MP3 format. Check out the "Finale."

August, 2011


Cheyenne Indians, 1911.

Three pages of new material and photographs including additional material on Fraternal Orders, the Cheyenne Indians Baseball team, Minstrel shows, and the Grand Army of the Republic have been added beinning at Cheyenne.


Laramie, 1870.

June and July, 2011

Approximately twenty new photos have been added to the Laramie pages.

Additional photos and text have been added to the Jackson and Grand Tetons pages.

May, 2011:


"Blossoms of Tung Oil Tree," photo by Charles J. Belden.

Photos and additional text have been added relating to the career of Charles J. Belden, the "Cowboy Photographer" both in Wyoming and Florida.

April 2011:

Additions have been made to the section on the Black Hills including Photographs and text as to the Parachute jump by George Hopkins onto the top of the Devils Tower on October 1, 1941. A page has been added for the town of Beulah. Some history of Hulett in the Black Hills has also been added. Additional text and photos relating to a murder which shook the little town of Hillsdale when the son of the town's banker was accused of killing a travelling typewriter and cash register salesman. Additional text and photos added to the story of Fort Laramie.

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Douglas Fairbanks at Frontier Days, 1917. Photos by Ralph Doubleday.

March 3, 2011:

Seventeen new photos added to Frontier Days along with additional text covering early rodeo stars, Yakima Canutt, Floyd Irwin, Phil Yoder, "Breezy" Cox, Sam Brownell, Ray Bell, and others.


 Carl Hildebrand on Teddy Roosevelt, Wyoming State Fair, 1910.

February 23, 2011:

Twenty new photos of the early years of the Wyoming State Fair at Douglas added.

December 25, 2010:

New photos added to Laramie Pages.

December 24, 2010:


Cowboys on Quarter Circle U Roundup, 1939.

Several new photos have been added of the Quarter Circle U. Additional text and photos relating to the Bar B C Dude ranch have been added to the Jackson and Grand Tetons pages.

December 7, 2010:

The pages devoted to the Dietz and Monarch coal camps north of Sheridan have been divided into two pages with additional photos of the two camps. Text has been added relating to the 1907 indictment of the president of the Wyoming Coal Mining Co., Edward M. Holbrook and two of his associates, for defrauding the United States Government.

December 1, 2010:

Two additional pages devoted to USS Wyoming including woodcuts of the Battle of the Streights of Shimonoseki, photos of life on board the superdreadnaught Wyoming and additional photographs of various civilian ships named "The Wyoming."

November 28, 2010, 2010:

Van Tassell has now recieved its own page with several addional photos of early Van Tassell Jay Em has been separated into its own page.

November 7, 2010, 2010:

A page is now devoted to Wolfers. On the same day, two photographs of the MW Ranch were added.

November 2, 2010:

Four Pages of photos and text covering the evolution from the 1880's to the 1950's of the Three Circle, Quarter Circle U, and Bones Brothers Ranchs . ranches north of Sheridan was added. Pages include color photographs unique to this website.

October 24, 2010:

A full page is now devoted to the Rock Springs Arch .

October 3, 2010:

An additional page of Bill Gollings paintings has been added.

October 1, 2010:

Additional text and photograph, primarily relating to Lost Cabin were added to the sheep pages.

During 2010 additional photographs have been added to the Frontier Days pages. A woodcut depicting the laying of the Capital cornerstone has been added to the Cheyenne pages as well as a photograph of Col. Theodore Roosevelt in an open automobile in front of the Inter-Ocean hotel. Several additional photographs have been added relating to early Casper, including a photograph of the Rhinocerous Restaurant and text relating to the "Sandbar." The amount of space allotted to Cody and the Cody Road has been increased.