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, …
New History of Wyoming
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 …