1900 - The town site for Torrington, WY, was surveyed.
1916 - Bill Carlisle robbed a train in Hanna, WY. He was known as the "last train robber."
1942 - Anne Gorsuch Burford was born in Casper, WY. She served under President Ronald Reagan as the first female Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
1973 - The area between Lander and Jeffrey City experienced a magnitude 4.8 earthquake.
2001 - A magnitude 5.4 earthquake occurred about 50 miles from Jackson, WY.
| The 'Texas Trail' was the highway over which a tide of cattle was moved from Southwestern and Western Texas to the northwestern states, including Indian Territory, Kansas, Western Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming Territory, North and South Dakota and Montana." - U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick on December 10, 1916 |
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