The Fenton Story, USMC, June, 1971
By Phil Roberts, posted July 2, 2025 At the end of June, 1971, the 1st Marine Division became the last infantry division to leave Vietnam. …
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Coming Home: Nixon and the 1st Marine Division, 1971
By Phil Roberts, 4-23-2024 “Pass in review!” The President stood at attention, saluting the flags being held high by the color guard, all attired in …
Juror for Two “Trials of the Century”–Wyoming and Idaho
Phil Roberts, 4-19-24 A Wheatland area rancher, O. V. Sebern, served on the jury for the Tom Horn trial in Cheyenne in 1902-3, often referred …
Writing about Royal Visit of Brazilian Emperor to America, 1876
By Phil Roberts, 3-18-2024 Recently, I found research notes of an article I wrote for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7 (October …
Two training bases, the main airport–all built on a filled-in estuary in San Diego Bay
By Phil Roberts, 8-19-23 In late 1971, I was a “short-timer” in the US Marine Corps while the last units of the Corps had been …
Death of a Missouri Insurance Salesman in Pre-statehood Cheyenne
By Phil Roberts Traveling across Wyoming was perilous in the covered wagon days of the Oregon-California trail. Yet, even when rail travel made it faster …
The Brief Wyoming Visit by a Reigning Emperor, 1876
By Phil Roberts In these times of ever more curiosity with the antics of the British royals (and former royals), writers have remarked on the …
The Partnership Years: The Wyoming State Historical Society and the State of Wyoming, 1966-1994.
By Phil Roberts. The decades of the 1960s through the 1980s marked a maturation of public interest in Wyoming history. In 1951 Wyoming laws designated …
Wyoming Adopts the Sales Tax
Wyoming Adopts the Sales Tax: The 1930s Origins of the Current Tax System By Phil Roberts, Department of History, University of Wyoming Wyoming’s …
Sedition and Vigilante Justice in World War I Wyoming
Aliens and Slackers: Loyalty, Sedition and Vigilante Justice in World War I Wyoming By Phil Roberts This article first appeared in Annals of Wyoming 85 (Winter 2013) …
State Efforts to Control Alcohol After Prohibition Repeal
Extract from Regulating Liquor: Prohibition Enforcement, Official Corruption, and State Efforts to Control Alcohol After Prohibition Repeal By Phil Roberts, University of Wyoming The …
Federal Prohibition Enforcement in Wyoming
Conducting Investigations: Inside Federal Prohibition Enforcement in Wyoming This is the story of some long-lost files, some citizen complaints about wide-open bootlegging and official …
Wyoming State Historical Society, 1966-1994.
The Partnership Years: The Wyoming State Historical Society and the State of Wyoming, 1966-1994. By Phil Roberts. The decades of the 1960s through the 1980s …
Wyoming Responses to Heart Mountain “Relocation” Camp, 1941-43
Wyoming Responses to Heart Mountain “Relocation” Camp, 1941-43 An Editor Speaks Out and a Senator Stays Silent By Phil Roberts This article first appeared as …
Flu Epidemic of 1918
Flu Epidemic of 1918 By Phil Roberts Published in wyohist.org in September, 2018. Available also on wyohist.org website Though disease epidemics were common throughout America …
Cowboys Form a Health Cooperative:
Cowboys Form a Health Cooperative: The Fetterman Hospital Association and Health Care Coverage on the Range By Phil Roberts Wyoming would seem to be …