Mary Kay Mason, Book Project Director, Laramie, Gem City of the Plains (Curtis Media Corporation, 1987)
T. A. Larson, History of Wyoming, (University of Nebraska Press, 1978)
Deborah Hardy, Wyoming University: The first 100 years 1886-1986 (Laramie, Wyoming: University of Wyoming, 1986)
Lola M. Homsher, The History of Albany County, Wyoming to 1880 (Lusk, Wyoming: Privately Published, 1965)
Charlie Peterson and the Laramie Plains Museum, Laramie: Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007)
Faculty of University of Wyoming, In Memoriam; Grace Raymond Hebard, 1861-1936 (Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming, June 1937)
Mike Mackey, Inventing History in the American West (Casper, Wyoming: Mountain States Lithographing, 2005)
Wyoming State Historical Society, accessed August 2014, www.wyshs.org
Wyoming State Archives, accessed February 2014 – October 2014, wyoarchives.state.wy.us
American Heritage Center (at the U. of Wyoming), accessed January 2014 – November 2014, www.uwyo.edu/ahc, www.uwyo.edu/ahc/digital
Wyoming Tales and Trails, accessed February 2014 – November 2014, www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com
Wyoming Territorial Prison Museum, accessed June 2014 – August 2014, http://wyoparks.state.wy.us
The Wyoming House for Historic Women, accessed July 2014 – September 2014, www.thelouisaswainfoundation.com/the_wyoming_house_for_historic_women
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Restaurant History Resources
Bob Gerard, Interview by Deborah Linden, In Person, Fort Collins, Colorado, April, 2014
Dick Van Pelt, Interview by Deborah Linden and Bella Pope, In Person, Laramie, Wyoming, June 2014
Ann Mullen Boelter, Interviews by Deborah Linden, In Person, Laramie, Wyoming, July 2014 – October 2014
Ann Mullen Boelter, Photo’s and information about the Hitchcock Family (Ann Mullen Boelter, accessed 2014)
Fort Sanders History Resources
Mary Kay Mason, Book Project Director, Laramie, Gem City of the Plains (Curtis Media Corporation, 1987)
Lola M. Homsher, The History of Albany County, Wyoming to 1880 (Lusk, Wyoming: Privately Published, 1965)
Ray Revere, The History of Fort Sanders Wyoming (Masters Thesis, University of Wyoming, 1960)
Candy Moulton, Forts, Fights and Frontier Sites (Glendo, Wyoming, High Plains Press, 2010)
Frances E. Strayer-Hanson, Medicine Bow Valley Pioneers: Closing the Overland Trail Opening the Union Pacific Railroad (Bloomington, Indiana, iUniverse Inc., 2009)
Jay Monaghan, The Overland Trail (Indianapolis, Indiana, Bobbs-Merrill, 1947)
T. A. Larson, History of Wyoming (University of Nebraska Press, 1978)
Wyoming State Historical Society, accessed August 2014, www.wyshs.org
Wyoming State Archives, accessed February 2014 – October 2014, wyoarchives.state.wy.us
American Heritage Center (at the U. of Wyoming) Accessed January 2014 – November 2014, www.uwyo.edu/ahc
Wyoming Tales and Trails, accessed February 2014 – November 2014 www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com
Annals of Wyoming, accessed June 2014 – October 2014, www.archive.org
The Boomerang Newspaper, accessed March 2014 – November 2014, http://www.laramieboomerang.com
Jerry Hanson, Interviews by Deborah Linden, In Person, Laramie, Wyoming, Laramie Plains Museum, January 2014 – October 2014
Phil Roberts, Interview by Deborah Linden, In Person, Laramie, Wyoming, April 2014
Kim Viner, Interviews by Deborah Linden, In Person, Laramie, Wyoming, April 2014, July 2014
Wyoming Newspaper Project newspapers.wyo.gov
F.K. Freeman, Frontier Index, (Laramie, Dakota Territory, Freeman and Company) April 2, 1868 – July 21, 1868
Frontier Index Editions – April 21 & 28, 1868
Frontier Index Editions – May 5, 19, 22, 26 &29, 1868
Frontier Index Editions – June 2, 5, 9, 12, 16, 19, 23, 26 & 30, 1868
Frontier Index Editions – July 3, 7 & 21, 1868
University of Wyoming Geological Museum
Dr. Wilbur Knight is one of the primary reasons that the University of Wyoming’s Geological Museum has long enjoyed its top-notch reputation. Knight served as the assistant territorial geologist of Wyoming from 1886-1887 and was appointed state geologist in 1898. He joined University of Wyoming’s faculty in 1893, and became the curator of the Geological Museum in addition to his instructional responsibilities.
Knight led many expeditions into the Wyoming heartland, famous for being one of the richest fossil regions in the United States. He was the leader of the 1899 Union Pacific Railroad Expedition in which railroad officials invited geologists and paleontologists from universities, colleges, and museums around the country to participate in a scientific expedition to Wyoming.
Although Wilbur Knight died rather young, his son Samuel “Doc” Knight, a legendary Wyoming geologist in his own right, later became the curator of the museum and expanded its scope. The Geological Museum at the University of Wyoming has since become a tremendous attraction in Laramie and an asset to Wyoming.
Learn more about Dr. Wilbur Knight and the University of Wyoming’s Geological Museum.
Aerial View of the University of Wyoming Campus
The aerial view of the University of Wyoming campus in this photograph shows how the city of Laramie was expanding to the east, bordering university property at 9th Street. The Green Hill Cemetery is at the top left of the picture. Corbett Field can be spotted at the top right, next to Half Acre gym. Old Main is pictured halfway down on the right side. Today, the University has grown to encompass all of this property.
During the Depression, government programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the National Youth Administration (NYA) and the Civilization Conservation Corps (CCC) operated on campus and in the Laramie area. The following decades would bring many changes to the physical design of the campus.