Nov. 19, 1914, began as a normal day for Bertha Rhinehart, a teacher at a school 30 miles northwest of Cheyenne. Before the morning was over, the 28-year-old had saved her students from a wind-driven wildfire but had been badly burned and died the next day.
This small item appeared in The Sheridan Post, April 30, 1914
This monument still stands at the corner of Smith Street and North Brooks.
In October of 1902, the Old Settler’s Club held it’s first annual meeting in Sheridan. The old settlers, as the article below states, were Sheridan area
Devil’s Tower, near Sundance Wyoming, is well known to most people in Wyoming. In September of 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt declared it the First National Monument in the United States.
It towers over the plains in Crook country and can be seen from Interstate 90 near Moorcroft. It has puzz
The Tennessee Legislature recently caught national attention when it expelled two of its members after they interrupted debate by leading a protest in the legislative chamber. Members of the 12th Wyoming Legislature might call that child’s play.
St. Patrick’s Day has been celebrated in Wyoming for many years, and there were undoubtedly many celebrations held in the isolated forts and frontier towns that were not reported on in the papers.
The Irish played their part on the Western Frontier. There were many immigrants in the plains army r