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Men weren’t the only ones to come west to settle the new frontier. Many brought their wives as well. Including officers at the remote army outposts in Wyoming. Most of the married women who came west to live in the forts were officer’s wives, but occasionally a enlisted man's wife might come alon

Although today we have radio, television, the internet and an almost unlimited stream of news reports, back in the 1870s in Wyoming, during what is referred to as the ‘Great Sioux War,” this wasn’t the case. But, people back east still wanted news, especially news of their fathers and husbands; sons

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

The Power River Country Last week was the first installment of Crook’s March from Fort Fetterman, up the Powder River, to the Tongue River and to Rosebud Creek. According to newspaper accounts of the day, his men marched over 400 miles of rough and little explored country before they returned to

This is the first of a two part story. The march into the Big Horn Country took 14 days, and the correspondent who was embedded with Crook’s army was very detailed in his recording of the expedition. However, it is interesting to see what they thought of the Sheridan area in 1876, when there were fe

Looking towards the park headquarters and the officer's quarters In February of 1961, the Wyoming Legislature purchased the grounds where Fort Fetterman once stood. In 1962, The Wyoming Historical Commission gained ownership of the site and began to preserve it. The buildings had deteriorated, an