The Quest for Public Television
By Phil Roberts In Wyoming, with the smallest population of any state and a tradition of individualism, one person can have a greater impact on …
Media History
Trying to Raise a TV Tower Inside a National Monument: The Case of Scotts Bluff National Monument (1955)
Television came to most Wyoming and area communities in the 1950s by way of over-the-air broadcast, caught on antennas mounted on towers or housetops. Some …
“Modern Journalism,” Editorial, Seattle, 1895
This editorial was published in the Seattle Press-Times, May 10, 1895, p. 2, c. 2: “During the last ten years a remarkable change has taken …
Wyoming’s 1st Printed Newspaper Was a Daily
By Phil Roberts, Reprinted from Buffalo Bones column, October 20, 1979 The first printed newspaper in Wyoming hit the streets on June 12, 1863. Unlike …
A New Newspaper in Wyoming, 1977
On Sept. 29, 1977, David L. Roberts started the Medicine Bow Post, just as the town of Medicine Bow was about to boom (with the …
Hooray for Laramie?: Wyoming’s Brush with Hollywood Fame
By Phil Roberts In the 1950s, a celebrated veteran in the entertainment business wrote about his memories of Wyoming in his autobiography. He …
Some Interesting Wyoming Ads
Advertising Some Interesting Wyoming Ads 1. “Individual Towels” Sign, posted in 1868, promoting one of the best features of a hotel in Benton, now a ghost …
The Quest for Public Television
By Phil Roberts In Wyoming, with the smallest population of any state and a tradition of individualism, one person can have a greater impact …
Court Reform and the Muckrakers: C. P. Connolly, Theodore Roosevelt and Exposes of the Courts
By Phil Roberts Copyright by Phil Roberts, 1989. This article began as a graduate seminar paper in a class at the University of Washington in …
Characteristics of Twentieth Century Newspapers: Predictions by Editors 125 Years Ago
By Phil Roberts More than a century and a quarter ago in 1895, editors of leading newspapers gave their predictions about what how the 20th …