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 …
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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 …