It took Wyoming nearly 30 years after becoming a state until it adopted a state flag. Today one of the original flags hangs with pride in this museum in Buffalo.
Events kick off at noon Wednesday with food trucks and music, followed by a ribbon cutting, tours of the Capitol Square Project, live music, and fireworks.
Like Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon and Cheyenne Mayor Marian Orr, Joseph Carey and F.E. Warren were both Republicans, they shared common political beliefs, and they hated each other's guts.
Park tells the story of Frank Emi, a second-generation Japanese American who was interred at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in North-Central Wyoming.
May 16, 1986, a deranged former police officer and his wife stormed into Cokeville Elementary School and took 154 students and teachers hostage. The hostage crisis has since become known as "The Cokeville Miracle".
If you have a garage door opener, thank Elmer Lovejoy. March 26, 1918, the Laramie inventor received a patent for the first garage door tracking system.