When Wyoming was a very new state, it was granted statehood on July 10 of 1890, there was a fight over who owned a strip of land, known as the McKinney Strip, which both the city of Buffalo and the Department of the Interior claimed as their own. Buffalo wanted it to expand the town, and Dept. of th
University of Wyoming Libraries has received a third round of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support ongoing newspaper digitization work.
LARAMIE – University of Wyoming Libraries has received a third round of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support ongoing newspaper digitization work.
UW Receives Third NEH Grant for Wyoming Digital Newspaper Project uwyo.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from uwyo.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Good judges were hard to find in Wyoming during the state’s fledgling years as a territory; 1860s Wyoming was practically lawless. Vigilante justice abounded. Judge Jacob Blair tried to change that.