The Buffalo Bill Dam was originally known as the Shoshone Dam, and several miles West of where the dam is located, there once was a town named Marquette.
In the early 20th century, there were 6 million sheep in the Cowboy State, nearly 50 sheep for every man, woman, and child. Many of them ended up at the stockyards in Arminto.
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, here's a salute to the tiny ghost town of Patrick, Wyoming.
In 1876, a man named Ed Patrick arrived in Wyoming and found work as a driver on the stage line that ran from Cheyenne to Deadwood, South Dakota...
Planning a summer vacation can be fun and decisive. How about a road trip in the Cowboy State to tour some of the old ghost towns for memories, photo ops and fun?
After the railroad first arrived in Cheyenne, it quickly developed a reputation as one of the wildest outposts on the western frontier. While stories of the "Hell on Wheels" era are well documented, there was one short-lived Wyoming town that was even rowdier than Cheyenne or Laramie...
Just in time for Halloween, here's a creepy story about, arguably, the first and worst serial killer in Wyoming, a woman named Polly Bartlett.
Bartlett came to Wyoming with her father, brother and niece in 1868. They settled in South Pass City, which at the time was experience a mining boom and was one of the fastest growing cities in the state...