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 …
New History of Wyoming
Wyoming’s Second Constitutional Convention and the Repeal of Prohibition
This week is the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition in Wyoming. The full story may be found here. https://wyomingalmanac.com/?page_id=360 Chapter 16 On May 25, …
Everything About Wyoming Webpage Has Moved–To Here! Note New Search-term Name
By Phil Roberts, 2 May 2021 We’ve moved the website, but it is directly reachable through the words “Wyoming Almanac” and no longer from “Everything …
Introduction to the Web Edition
INTRODUCTION TO THE WEB EDITION This entirely web-based series of articles is based on the fifth edition of a book consisting of essays relating …
Chapter 1: Earliest Treaties
Three Important 19th Century Treaties Several important treaties were made between the Federal Government and native tribes then occupying Wyoming. Two of the most significant …
Chapter 2: Fur Trade and Rendezvous
Chapter 2: Fur Trade and the Rendezvous System The brief 16-year period of the fur trade rendezvous in Wyoming illustrates enduring truths in the economic …
Chapter 3: Trail to Somewhere Else
Chapter 3: Wyoming as a Trail to Somewhere Else Various travelers came west with rendezvous trading parties and continued on their own. These included the …
Chapter 4: Primary Documents for Chapter 3
Chapter 4: Primary Documents for Chapter 3 Document 1: Extracts from Capt. Howard Stansbury, report to Col. John James Abert, Chief, Corps of Topographical Engineers, …
Chapter 5: Coming of Rails
Chapter 5: Coming of Rails Section 1: Choosing a Route and Financing Construction Horses, oxen and other draft animals had been the transportation mainstays for eons. …
Chapter 6: Building the Rails
Chapter 6: Building the Rails Section 1: Choosing a Route and Financing Construction Horses, oxen and other draft animals had been the transportation mainstays for eons. …
Chapter 7: Women’s Rights
Chapter 7: Establishing the Territory and Granting Women Equal Rights “For the first time in the history of our country, the organization of a territorial …
Chapter 8: Public Lands
Chapter 8: Public Lands From the nation’s beginning, many Americans believed the country’s future was in agriculture. Public officials articulated a continuing policy that …
Chapter 9: Water and Irrigation
Chapter 9: Water and Irrigation By Phil Roberts In the interest of furthering Thomas Jefferson’s agrarian ideal, Congress passed the original Homestead Act in …
Chapter 10: Wyoming Oil
Chapter 10: Wyoming Oil By Phil Roberts New History of Wyoming Chapter 9 This essay was written as part of the readings/lectures for a course …
Chapter 11: Constitutional Convention and Statehood
Chapter 11: Constitutional Convention and Statehood Essays: “Wyoming Becomes a State: The Constitutional Convention and Statehood Debates of 1889 and 1890 — and Their Aftermath” …
Chapter 12: Contest for the Capital:
Chapter 12: Contest for the Capital: The Capital Location Election of 1904 By Phil Roberts Wyomingites organized for statehood in the late 19th century, along …
Chapter 13: Women’s Suffrage
Chapter 13: Creation of Wyoming Territory: Impeachment and Women’s Suffrage by Phil Roberts – 2019 Impeachment played an important, but subtle role in the creation …
Chapter 14: Creating Counties in 1911
Chapter 14: Creating Counties in 1911 Why Two of Wyoming’s “Grand Old Men” Have No Counties Named for Them By Phil Roberts The 1911 …
Chapter 15: Wyoming in the 1920s
Chapter 15: Wyoming in the 1920s Most Americans enjoyed prosperity during the decade of the 1920s. In fact, the …
Chapter 16: 2nd Constitutional Convention
Chapter 16 Wyoming’s Second Constitutional Convention and the Repeal of Prohibition By Phil Roberts, University of Wyoming A version of this article appeared as: ”Wyoming’s Second …
Chapter 17: Great Depression and New Deal in Wyoming
Chapter 17 The 1930s Great Depression and the New Deal in Wyoming This essay focuses on several of the “organizing concepts”—state/federal relations (“Washington”), “boom-and-bust” (“Wall …
Chapter 18: Wyoming Adopts the Sales Tax
Chapter 18 Wyoming Adopts the Sales Tax: The 1930s Origins of the Current Tax System By Phil Roberts, Department of History, University of Wyoming …
Chapter 19: Regulating Liquor
Chapter 19 Regulating Liquor: Prohibition Enforcement, Official Corruption, and State Efforts to Control Alcohol After Prohibition Repeal By Phil Roberts, University of Wyoming The …
Chapter 20: World War II in Wyoming
Chapter 20: World War II in Wyoming (Under revision) The “Temporary Emergency Sales Tax Act” and its Successors After the Griffenhagen plan was roundly rejected, …
Chapter 21: The 1950s
Chapter 21: The 1950s by Phil Roberts “Everything in Wyoming is political,” goes the oft-quoted saying, “except politics. Politics is personal.” The remark …