Moon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918
Moon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918 Rebecca HeinThursday, June 29, 2017In the summer of 1878, William O. “Billy” Owen was working with a surveying crew high in the...
View ArticleMoon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918
Moon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918 Rebecca HeinThursday, June 29, 2017In the summer of 1878, William O. “Billy” Owen was working with a surveying crew high in the...
View ArticleMoon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918
Moon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918 Rebecca HeinThursday, June 29, 2017In the summer of 1878, William O. “Billy” Owen was working with a surveying crew high in the...
View ArticleMoon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918
Moon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918 Rebecca HeinThursday, June 29, 2017In the summer of 1878, William O. “Billy” Owen was working with a surveying crew high in the...
View ArticleMoon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918
Moon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918 Rebecca Hein Thursday, June 29, 2017 In the summer of 1878, William O. “Billy” Owen was working with a surveying crew high in the...
View ArticleMoon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918
Moon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918 Rebecca HeinThursday, June 29, 2017In the summer of 1878, William O. “Billy” Owen was working with a surveying crew high in the...
View ArticleMoon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918
Moon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918 Rebecca HeinJune 29, 2017In the summer of 1878, William O. “Billy” Owen was working with a surveying crew high in the Medicine Bow...
View ArticleMoon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918
Moon Shadows over Wyoming: The Solar Eclipses of 1878, 1889 and 1918 Rebecca HeinJune 29, 2017In the summer of 1878, William O. “Billy” Owen was working with a surveying crew high in the Medicine Bow...
View ArticleThe University of Wyoming Textbook Controversy, 1947-48
Published: November 8, 2014Americans in 1947 were still celebrating the long, difficult victories over Nazi Germany and Japan, but beginning to have doubts about the intentions of one of the former...
View ArticleThe Black 14: Race, Politics, Religion and Wyoming Football
Published: November 8, 2014During the second period of the season-opening football game against Arizona on Sept. 20, 1969, a packed house at the University of Wyoming's War Memorial Stadium watched as...
View ArticleAven Nelson, Botanist and President of the University of Wyoming
Published: October 23, 2018When 28-year-old Aven Nelson arrived in Laramie, Wyo., on July 28, 1887, the University of Wyoming consisted of just one building, still under construction, on an arid plain...
View ArticleThe 1918 Flu: A Worldwide Epidemic Sweeps Wyoming
Published: September 24, 2018Though disease epidemics were common throughout America and the West in earlier times, the worst epidemic in terms of loss of human life came to Wyoming early in the 20th...
View ArticleThe W on Laramie’s W Hill
Published: March 15, 2018“Go out in the back steps of the University or any other convenient place about town and take a look at the red hills northeast of Laramie,” the Wyoming Student, predecessor to...
View ArticleJune Downey: Scientist, Scholar and Poet
Published: February 8, 2018June Etta Downey, longtime professor of psychology at the University of Wyoming in the early 20th century, loved science, scholarship and creative pursuits with equal fervor....
View ArticleCarrie Burton Overton, First African-American Female Student at UW
Carrie Burton (1888-1975) prospered despite the odds stacked against her as a young African-American woman growing up in Laramie, Wyo. She entered the University of Wyoming in 1903 at the age of...
View ArticleWyoming’s Long-lived Bucking Horse
Wyoming’s well-known bucking-horse-and-rider logo has changed many times since soldiers first used it on airplanes, arms and equipment in World War I France. Nor were all its versions modeled on the...
View ArticleThe Fountain and the Mural: Remembering a Tragic Cowboy Welcome
Halfway from Old Main to University Avenue on the University of Wyoming campus, a seldom-noticed stone drinking fountain blocks the long, straight sidewalk. Almost hidden among the summer flowers at...
View ArticleGrace Raymond Hebard: Shaping Wyoming’s Past
The talented and ambitious Grace Raymond Hebard remained well known and respected as a historian throughout Wyoming during her lifetime. Though her books, articles and pamphlets contained the racism...
View ArticleFormer University of Wyoming Football Player Mel Hamilton on his life and the...
Oral History Conducted Aug. 27, 2013Interviewed by Phil WhiteAt the Casper College Western History CenterCasper, Wyo.In October 1969, University of Wyoming Head Coach Lloyd Eaton dismissed 14 black...
View ArticleThe Black 14: Race, Politics, Religion and Wyoming Football
During the second period of the season-opening football game against Arizona on Sept. 20, 1969, a packed house at the University of Wyoming's War Memorial Stadium watched as Cowboys' split end Ron...
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