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GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Wyoming

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.

Ghost Towns of Wyoming

Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, Heart Mountain Foundation, Wyoming

The Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation, HMWF, has worked to preserve the site of the Heart Mountain internment camp located near towns of Powell and Cody, Wyoming.

Mountain Men and the Fur Trade

Sources of the History of the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West.

The Ludwig Collection

Photographs from the Ludwig Collection, produced by the Laramie, Wyoming based Ludwig Studio. These 200 scans are a selection of the 8x10 negatives produced during the 1930s.

The Wyoming Companion - Heritage and History

Wyoming Historical Facts

Wyoming History Timeline

Wyoming State Parks & Historic Sites

Wyoming Territorial Prison

During its use as a federal and then state penal facility (1873-1903) more than 1,000 men and 12 women did time at the Wyoming Territorial Prison.

Yellowstone National Park History Page