Wyoming History

The Capitol was originally built in 1887 for $150,000, the modern-day equivalent of $4 million. The cost to renovate just the Capitol building was $116 million in 2017.

Charles Starkweather was one of the most infamous serial killers in American history. Thanks to a friendly stranger on a desolate highway in Wyoming, his reign of terror finally ended just outside of Douglas on January 29, 1958.

In "The Girl Guards of Wyoming: The Lost Women's Militia", Cheyenne author and historian Dan Lyon recounts the legendary tale of Company K, the first all-female military troop in American history.

On Jan. 20, 1913, a heated debate in the Wyoming House of Representatives turned into a brawl on the floor of the Wyoming State Capitol.

In 1868, Polly Bartlett poisoned 22 men at her family's boarding house in South Pass City, Wyoming.

Just over a month after the Union Pacific Railroad officially established Cheyenne in 1867, H.M. Hook was elected as our first mayor.

No, it's not a hotel from the frontier days, or a bar that claims to be where the Bucket of Blood gang was caught.

With the help of a new interactive map, you can now see what the Cowboy State looked like through the ages, dating back to the Cryogenian Period 750 million years ago.

Here in Wyoming, Christmas has been officially observed since the territory was first granted statehood in 1890. But a lot has changed since then.

December 25, 1866, soldiers at Fort Laramie gathered for the Christmas party. By night's end, it would be the saddest holiday celebration in Wyoming history.