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Today, nearly everyone has either a cell phone or a land-line phone or both. But 142 years ago, in March of 1881, telephones were just coming to Wyoming. The first telephone exchange was established in Cheyenne on March 22, 1881. Later that year, service was made possible to Laramie. The Plains Hote

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

With it being the mid-terms election, in this story we will look at some elections through the years. It was 1845 that Congress passed the law designating the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November as Election Day. Before that time, states could hold elections any time they pleased,