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Bombardier Conservationist: Tom Bell and the High Country News
In 1973 in Lander, Wyo., a father faced a difficult choice: Buy rubber boots to get his daughter through the Wyoming snows? Or continue pouring family funds into his newspaper and its quixotic...
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Laramie Peak, Landmark on the Oregon Trail
Wagon-train emigrants got their first glimpse of the Rocky Mountains when, near Scotts Bluff in what’s now western Nebraska, Laramie Peak appeared on the horizon about 85 miles away.A branch of the...
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Newspaper War in Paradise: A 30-year Conflict in Jackson Hole
When the war broke out in Jackson Hole, most people had their money on the hometown hero to win. He had easily warded off any challengers before, and the townsfolk were dead certain he was...
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Who took the photo? Stories Conflict for Image of Ski Tracks on the Grand
When it came to chasing stories, the sky was literally no limit for Jackson Hole News co-owner Virginia Huidekoper.Huidekoper may not have been co-owner for long, but she made the most of her time at...
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The Grave of Elizabeth Paul
In the summer of 1862, a large train of 80 wagons was making its way west through mountains in what’s now western Wyoming when serious troubles led to the deaths of two women and their infants within a...
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Yellowstone Park, Arnold Hague and the Birth of National Forests
No logging, no grazing—even no trespassing? The Yellowstone Timber Land Reserve, the first land to be set aside in what evolved into today’s National Forest system, had a distinctly different character...
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Conservation politics: ‘Triple A’ Anderson and the Yellowstone Forest Reserve
A.A. Anderson’s favorite self-description was “artist-hunter.” In his autobiography he wrote, “The two ruling passions of my life have always been hunting and painting.” But Anderson, who founded the...
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Inland Empire: The Swan Land and Cattle Company Ltd.
For the 68 years it lasted, the Swan Land and Cattle Company was managed first by a lavish spender and freewheeling speculator. Then it was rescued, and later run for a much longer stretch by a...
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Alpine Lives of Ancient People: High-mountain Archeology in Wyoming
Published: April 28, 2018In recent years, melting ice and mountain fires have revealed ancient human presence at elevations above 8,000 feet in northwestern Wyoming. Findings of archaeologists over the...
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Finis Mitchell, Mountaineer
Published: August 24, 2018In the summer of 1952, Finis Mitchell was hiking alone in the northern Wind River Mountains in western Wyoming. Descending to a nameless lake in the Fremont River gorge, a...
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Aven Nelson, Botanist and President of the University of Wyoming
Published: October 23, 2018When 28-year-old Aven Nelson arrived in Laramie, Wyo., on July 28, 1887, the University of Wyoming consisted of just one building, still under construction, on an arid plain...
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Who First Climbed the Grand?
Published: November 19, 2018Disputes over who first climbed certain Wyoming mountains date to the earliest times of Euro-Americans in the West. One of the first was about which peak of the Wind River...
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John Wesley Powell: Explorer, Thinker, Scientist and Bureaucrat
Published: December 26, 2018On a rocky precipice above the Green River in present east central Utah, one man struggled to save another from falling hundreds of feet. Suspended by a pair of long...
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Managing Game on the Wind River Reservation
Published: January 22, 2019Elk, deer, moose, mule deer, bighorn sheep, pronghorn and other wild ungulates that migrate freely across Wyoming’s vast landscapes also cross more than two million acres of...
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Wyoming Parkitecture
Published: March 18, 2019In 1904, when the Old Faithful Inn opened in Yellowstone National Park, it was immediately seen as a unique treasure of a building: rustic and luxurious, breathtaking yet...
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The President Arthur Expedition: The Fishing Trip That Helped Save Yellowstone
Published: April 29, 2019A presidential fishing trip that began in Green River, Wyoming Territory, late in the 1800s helped save Yellowstone National Park.By 1883, 11 years after Yellowstone was...
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Modernizing National Park Facilities: Mission 66 in Wyoming
Published: September 18, 2019In the economic and patriotic boom that followed World War II, the national park system became overwhelmed. Annual Yellowstone visitation, for example, increased from a...
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Watering a Dry Land: Wyoming and Federal Irrigation
Published: October 28, 2019Partly to further Thomas Jefferson’s ideal of America as a nation of small farmers who own their own land, Congress passed the original Homestead Act in 1862. The law offered...
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Who gets to hunt Wyoming's elk? Tribal Hunting Rights, U.S. Law and the...
Published: September 29, 2020On July 13, 1895, a party of Bannock Indians awoke in their camp to find themselves surrounded by 27 armed white men. The Bannock party resembled a family reunion, with...
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Stephen Leek, Father of the Elk
Published: November 16, 2020Stephen Nelson Leek (1858–1943), a founder of Jackson, Wyo., was an early wildlife photographer. His nationally recognized images of starving elk helped establish the...
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