The grand art deco fountain that rises in front of Cheyenne’s municipal airport honored early aviation history when it was built in the 1930s. Today, it not only continues to honor that early history, but also memorializes every year of aviation in Wyoming ever since it was built. The group Cheyenne Historic Preservation is actively working to restore the fountain to allow it to continue to embody the aviation spirit of Cheyenne for many more decades.
Fort Bernard was founded in 1845 outside of Fort Laramie, and was the site of a major conflict between settlers, the military, and the Lakota Sioux. The Western History Center is excavating the site and is looking for help building a fence and controlling weeds.
Sadly, the Shoshone Episcopal Mission School burned down March 24th. The school building is rooted in the history of Wyoming, the west, and the United States. Read more about it here.
The cabins at Simpson Lake can only be reached by horseback. Their remoteness is only one contributing factor to Simpson Lake Lodge’s charm.
Henry Bath immigrated with his family to the United States from Germany in 1848. After twenty years in New York, Henry’s parents decided to follow the brand new Union Pacific railroad to Laramie.
Clay Paper Scissors Gallery and Studio owners Mark Vinich and Camellia El-Antably turned a falling down 19th century building in downtown Cheyenne into a beautiful art gallery. Here we celebrate their preservation success story.
The western cowboy’s history in Wyoming is actually relatively short. Several different Native American groups inhabited the region far before immigrants from the east settled there, and they are still here today.
In 1953, Casper teens entered the new Dean Morgan Junior High, praised for its “space, soft colors, modern illumination, convection heating, and a general building design tailored for needs of younger teen-agers.”
Not all towns last forever. However, they leave behind relics, clues, and memories that excite the imagination and inspire tales of mystery.
Though little is known about this specific tower, one can only imagine the types of thoughts that must have occupied a lookout’s mind as they sat stranded, completely alone at 10,000 feet, watching for orange glows on the horizon.