Wyoming

Steve Sanger | April/May 2005

A Pony Express stop for our time

In sunshine or darkness, good weather or bad, whether I’m wide awake or dead tired, the most beautiful roadside sight for me is a sign that says WE NEVER CLOSE.

The Long Asphalt Trail

July/August 1994

Scenic and historic wonders sprout near Interstate 80 in Wyoming.

Nicknames on the Land

Gerald Carson | April 1991

A small but dependable pleasure of travel is encountering such blazons of civic pride as “Welcome to the City of Cheese, Chairs, Children, and Churches!”

Stephen Vincent Benét confessed that he had fallen in love with American placenames, and George R.

Powder River Country

Oakley Hall | April 1989

THE MOVIES, THE WARS, AND THE TEAPOT DOME: A journey of a hundred miles on a Wyoming interstate turns up the true stories behind the powerful Western myths.

My wife and I are on the inter-state, headed north toward Johnson County, Wyoming.

Boosting the West

October/November 1985

The Wyoming photographer Joseph Stimson proudly portrayed his region in the years when it was emerging from it rude frontier beginnings.

In a career lasting almost 60 years, Joseph Stimson promoted Wyoming and other Western states in strong and spirited photographs.

It All Began In Wyoming

Lynne Cheney | April 1973

One day in 1869 the gentlemen of the territorial legislature amused themselves by enacting the first woman-suffrage law. They trusted in a veto from the governor

The Redskin Who Saved The White Man’s Hide

Sidney O. Reynolds | February 1960

Chief Washakie earned his battle scars in the service of the Great White Father, who—for once at least—kept faith with an Indian

Pioneers In Petticoats

Helena Huntington Smith | February 1959

Legend says the frontier was “hell on women,” but the ladies claim they had the time of their lives

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Featured Authors

Acheson, Dean

Dean Acheson (1893-1971) was an attorney and statesman who served as Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry Truman. A key architect of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, Acheson stressed the importance of multilateral organizations in the fight against totalitarianism. Prior to his service in the Truman Administration, Acheson clerked for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, worked at Washington law firm Covington & Burling, and served as Undersecretary of the Treasury for one year under President Franklin Roosevelt.

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) was a historian and professor who wrote on military history, presidential history, and American expansion and foreign policy. Ambrose has been praised for his biographies of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, and for helping to galvanize interest in World War II.

Becker, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books. Her history When The War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge won accolades from the Robert F. Kennedy book award, while her recent biography of female conflict journalists You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War won the 2022 Sperber Book Prize and Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize. She is also the author of America’s Vietnam War: A Narrative History for young adults.

Bird, Kai

Kai Bird is a historian and Executive Director of Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York. He is best known for writing about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vietnam War, US-Middle East relations and biographies of political figures. Bird is the author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, a New York Times bestseller. His most recent book is The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Blight, David W.

David W. Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University. Recently, Blight has written A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation, and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, which won the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize.