1833 - Eliza Stewart Boyd was born. She was the first woman in America to be selected to serve on a jury. She was also the first woman in Wyoming, and probably the entire U.S., to be nominated to run for the Territorial legislature.
1978 - Yellowstone National Park was designated a United Nations World Heritage Site.
1984 - A magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred about 21 miles from the center of Gillette, 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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