1988 More than one million acres burn during Yellowstone National Park fires. Drinking age raised to 21 years.
On July 8, 1889, Wyoming Territory held an election of delegates to Wyoming's one and only Constitutional Convention. Forty-nine men gathered in Cheyenne during September 1889 and wrote the constitution. The House passed a statehood bill March...
Wyoming is known as the “Equality State” because women in Wyoming were the first in the nation allowed to vote, serve on juries and hold public office.
Women were allowed to vote in order for Wyoming to have enough...