Cheyenne History

There was a time in Cheyenne's history, when the Becker Hotel was one of the hottest additions to the Capitol City. The building even featured a restaurant downstairs.

The Denver Pacific Railroad had it's heyday back in the early 19th Century. However, on this day, the connection between Denver and Cheyenne was established.

This weekend, thousands of Wyoming football fans will follow the 'Cowboy Caravan' on Interstate 80 from Cheyenne to the Mountain West Conference Championship in Laramie. Unfortunately, most of them will never experience a proud Pokes tradition called the "Treagle Train"...

On November 28, 1867, just 15 days after the Union Pacific Railroad had reached Cheyenne, one of the town's original shopkeepers, H.H. Ellis, helped prepare the first Thanksgiving feast in the new city. By that time, nearly 4,000 workers and merchants had flocked to bustling western outpost...

Ever since the Union Railroad Railroad arrived in 1867, Cheyenne has been a haven for miners, gunslingers, gamblers, and rugged frontiersman looking to stake a claim. According to some folks, many of those early settlers continue to haunt Cheyenne to this day...

In the mid-1940s, just as World War II was coming to an end, a new "supper club" was built on the South Greeley Highway in Cheyenne. For nearly 50 years, it was the Ol' Palomino Club. And, according to legend, it was one of the most haunted buildings in town...

You may be one of those who either grew up in church or you regularly attend church now. History was made in Cheyenne back in 1867, when the first sermon was preached here.

This summer, the Flippers Family Arcade moved into, arguably, the most haunted building in downtown Cheyenne. Rumors of ghosts at 1617 Capitol Avenue date back to the venue's days as The Cheyenne Club. Not to be confused with the original Cheyenne Club, which served as a private members-only social club for rich cattle barons from 1880 to 1936, the Cheyenne Club on Capitol Avenue was far from fanc

The two-women Cheyenne mayoral race is making Wyoming history. If we mean that history is sad, I agree. I also believe the 1900s have been over for a few years.

The Taco John's fast food chain now operates over 400 restaurants in 25 states, but it all started with a small food truck down the street from Cheyenne Frontier Days. John Turner was an officer in the United States Air Force. After serving in the Korean War, he was stationed at F...