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1858-59
Russell, Majors, and Waddell transport more than 16,000,000 pounds of freight to Utah, passing through Wyoming on Oregon Trail.
1859
Central, Overland, California and Pike's Peak Express Company is established by Russell, Majors, and Waddell.
Fort Bridger becomes a Government military reservation.
1860
Pony Express riders cross Wyoming.
1861
Creighton completes transcontinental telegraph line across Wyoming.
1862
March. Ben Holladay takes over equipment of Russell, Majors, and Waddell.
Indians raid stage line and steal equipment.
July. Government mail route is changed from central Wyoming to southern part of State because of Indian depredations.
1863
Bozeman Road through Wyoming established.
A Mormon freights a cargo of soda to Salt Lake, the first known export of mineral from the territory.
Troops under General P. E. Connor sent to Wyoming to suppress Indians.
De Lacy prospecting expedition discovers Shoshone Lake.
1864
Indians wage war along Platte in Wyoming as a result of Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado.
1865
January 5. First proposal for temporary government for Territory of Wyoming is made by James M. Ashley, later governor of Montana Territory.
July. Platte Bridge Fight.
1866
Forts Reno and Phil Kearny are built along the Bozeman Trail. Fetterman Massacre occurs.
Fort Sanders is built on Laramie Plains.
1867
January 9. Laramie County is created by Dakota Legislature, and on December 27, Carter County.
Union Pacific builds into Wyoming.
Fort Fetterman is established.
Town of Cheyenne is founded.
Wagon Box Fight takes place in the Big Horns.
Fort D. A. Russell (now Fort F. E. Warren) is established.
Carissa lode is discovered at South Pass.
1868
Peace Commission signs treaties with Sioux, Crow, and Arapaho at Fort Laramie; with Bannock and Eastern Shoshone at Fort Bridger.
Shoshone Reservation established.
July 25. Territory of Wyoming is created by Congress.
Camp Augur is established (later called Camp Brown, then changed in 1878 to Fort Washakie).
Fort Fred Steele is established.
Albany and Carter Counties are organized.
Episcopal church builds first church building in Wyoming at Cheyenne.
1869
April 15. J. A. Campbell inaugurated as first governor of Wyoming.
Cheyenne designated as territorial capital.
October 12. First territorial legislature convenes.
December 10 Act granting suffrage to women is approved (the first in United States).
Union Pacific Railway is completed across territory.
Act is passed prohibiting intermarriage of whites and Negroes.
Carter County is changed to Sweetwater County.
Uinta County is organized.
1870
Population (U. S. Census), 9, 118.
First homestead entry is perfected in the territory.
Women serve on grand and petit juries at Laramie.
Mrs. Esther M. Morris, of South Pass, is appointed first woman justice of the peace.
Washburn and Doane Expedition explores Yellowstone National Park region.
1871
Legislature passes Militia Act; three militia districts created.
1872
'Yellowstone Wonderland' is established as first national park.
State Penitentiary is built at Laramie; destroyed by fire soon after; partially rebuilt in 1873.
1873
Wyoming Stock Growers Association organizes.
1876
Cheyenne and Black Hills stage line is launched.
Custer leads expedition in northern Wyoming.
Custer Massacre occurs in Montana.
1877
Arapaho are moved to Shoshone Reservation for temporary quarters (have remained there ever since).
1879
Lotteries and games of chance are outlawed by legislation.
1880
Population, 20,789.
1883
Cheyenne completes incandescent lighting system.
1884
Fremont County is organized.
1885
Anti-Chinese 'Riot' in Rock Springs.
1886
Governor Warren approves act providing for capitol building.
Commission is appointed to build capitol and State university.
Legislature provides for construction of Institution for Deaf, Dumb and Blind at Cheyenne. Severe winter kills thousands of cattle.
Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Railroad builds branch to Douglas called Wyoming and Central.
1887
Corner stone of capitol building is laid at Cheyenne.
1888
September 6. University of Wyoming opens at Laramie.
Crook and Pease (Johnson) Counties are organized.
400 Mormon families move into Big Horn Basin.
Wyoming National Guard is established.
Legislature appropriates funds for penitentiary at Rawlins.
Converse, Natrona, and Sheridan Counties are created.
1889
November. Wyoming adopts State constitution.
1890
Population, 62,553.
July 10, Wyoming is admitted into the Union as the forty-fourth State.
October 14. Francis E. Warren (last territorial governor) is in augurated as governor of State.
First Wyoming congressmen are elected: Joseph M. Carey (last delegate) and Francis E. Warren, U. S. senators; Clarence D. Clark, representative-at-large.
Big Horn and Weston Counties are created.
First oil well is brought in by Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Company in the Shannon field of the Salt Creek district.
1891
President Harrison establishes Yellowstone Timber Land Reserve, first in the United States.
1892
Johnson County Cattle War.
1895
Oil refinery is built at Casper.
Dupont Powder Company begins development of soda deposits in Wyoming.
1896
Hot Springs is purchased from Shoshone Indians.
1897
First Cheyenne Frontier Day is celebrated.
1898
New penitentiary is completed at Rawlins.
Legislature enacts law taxing migratory stock from adjoining States.
1899
U.P. mail train is robbed of $60,000 in unsigned bank notes at Wilcox.
1900
Population, 92,531.
1901
Stinking Water River is renamed Shoshone by the legislature.
1903
Tom Horn is hanged in Cheyenne.
1905
Governor's Mansion is ready for occupancy.
State Fair is established at Douglas.
1906
Riverton townsite is thrown open to settlers.
First auto accident in Wyoming occurs.
Devil's Tower National Monument is established.
1909
Pathfinder Dam is completed.
Park County is organized.
1910
Population, 145,965.
Willis Van Devanter of Wyoming is appointed associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt visits Cheyenne Frontier Days Celebration.
1911
Campbell, Goshen, Hot Springs, Lincoln, Niobrara, Platte, and Washakie Counties are organized.
1913
First automobile license in Wyoming is issued to J. M. Schwoob.
A wolf is trained to carry mail over deep snows.
1915
Workmen's Compensation Law is enacted.
1916
Non-partisan judiciary Law is passed.
'Bill' Carlisle robs U.P. train.
Sunrise is made model town by Colorado Fuel & Iron Company.
Homestead tax exemption is increased to $2,500.
1917
Buffalo Bill dies in Denver.
State Flower and State Flag are adopted by legislature.
The State highway department is created.
Jim Baker's cabin is moved to Cheyenne.
Wyoming male citizens register for World War draft.
1918
Wyoming purchases $10,000,000 worth of Liberty bonds.
State votes for prohibition three to one.
1919
All Wyoming breweries suspend operations during national emergency.
President Wilson makes several stops in Wyoming.
'Bill' Carlisle, train bandit, escapes from penitentiary.
1920
Population, 194,531.
Transcontinental air mail planes are launched.
Night air mail flying is inaugurated across Wyoming.
1921
Great oil well roars in at the Teapot Dome.
Prize fighting is legalized in Wyoming.
Teton and Sublette Counties are organized.
1922
Union Pacific stores six months' supply of coal along tracks as a precautionary measure in strike situation.
1923
Governor William B. Ross dies in office.
Frances Warren Pershing Memorial Hospital is dedicated in Cheyenne.
99 coal miners die in explosion at Kemmerer mine.
1924
Senator Francis E. Warren obtains $3,000,000 appropriation for aid in night flying service.
State receives $1,700,000 from oil royalties, for schools.
Nellie Tayloe Ross made governor, first woman to hold such office in the United States. (In 1933 she is appointed Director of the United States Mint, first woman to hold that office.)
1925
Teapot Dome oil case is tried before judge Kennedy at Cheyenne; decision upholds Sinclair lease.
3,500,000 pounds of honey are produced in Wyoming.
New Douglas airplane makes first flight across the State.
Gros Ventre River is dammed by huge slide.
State legislature votes ratification of the Colorado River Compact.
1926
John E. Higgins wills entire estate of $500,000 to Wyoming.
Queen Marie of Roumania visits Wyoming.
1927
Wyoming aeronautics law is passed.
Gros Ventre dam breaks and wipes out town of Kelley.
Senator Francis E. Warren dies; served as U. S. senator 1890-93;
1929
Honorable Patrick J. Sullivan is appointed to fill unexpired term as U. S. Senator, on December 5.
Grand Teton National Park is established.
1930
Population, 225,565.
1931
Fort D. A. Russell is officially renamed Fort Francis E. Warren.
6,000 people stage outdoor celebration at Independence Rock.
Governor Frank Emerson dies in office.
Wyoming Air Service officials fly to Sheridan from Casper with passengers and mail.
1933
Allocation of $22,700,000 is made for Casper-Alcova Reclamation Project.
New Federal Building is completed in Cheyenne.
Senator John B. Kendrick dies in office.
Hon. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, assistant U. S. postmaster general, is designated U. S. senator on December 18 for remainder of term; elected 1934 for full term ending 1941.
1934
Wyoming Air Service begins air mail route between Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Billings, Montana.
Democrats win every State elective office and majority of seats of State legislature.
1935
Lethal gas made official method of capital punishment.
A 2 per cent sales tax is put in effect.
Wyoming Democratic regime takes over entire State government for first time.
State liquor commission created; State becomes a wholesaler of intoxicating liquors, not including beer.
Holiday divorce law is enacted.
December 10 is designated as Wyoming Day, commemorating Governor John A. Campbell's signing of the act granting women in Wyoming Territory the right of suffrage.
1936
Aeronautical Commission is created.
Terms of county elective officers are lengthened to 4 years.
Columbus Day, October 12, is made a public holiday by legislature.
Wyoming home for dependent children completed in Casper.
General John Pershing visits Cheyenne.
Old Cheyenne Club, landmark, is demolished.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Wyoming three times during the summer.
Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, eminent historian, dies.
Harry H. Schwartz is elected U. S. senator for term ending 1943.
1937
New Supreme Court and Library Building are dedicated.
Justice Willis Van Devanter resigns from the United States Supreme Court.
Ex-Senator Robert D. Carey dies.
Social Security and Unemployment Insurance laws are enacted.
Old Fort Laramie is purchased by Wyoming Landmark Commission.
University of Wyoming holds Semi-Centennial Celebration.
A United Airlines passenger plane crashes in Wasatch Mountains with 19 aboard.
1938
Fort Laramie is taken over by Federal Government and made 74th National Monument.
Alcova Dam is completed.
Republicans gain political control of State government by electing three out of five State officials and a majority of legislators.
Final judgment of $6,364,677, less costs of suit and all of the Government's non-treaty expenditures for the Shoshone since 1868 is granted to Shoshone Tribe in' satisfaction of claims brought against Federal Government for the value of land in the Shoshone Reservation occupied by the Arapahoe for 60 years. This decision clears title to 2,343,540 acres of Wyoming land;gives legal status to homes of more than 1,000 Arapaho; and brings to the Shoshone about $4,000,000.
TUBERCULOSIS
Source: National Tuberculosis Association; Directory of Sanatoria Hospitals and Day Camps, For the Treatment of Tuberculosis; New York; August, 1919
Montana
Mrs. Sara E. Morse, Executive Secretary of the Montana Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, State Capitol, Helena, Mont.
Blackfoot
Blackfeet Sanatorium (1918) For all forms of tuberculosis.
A few general patients are recieved. Peference is given to children.
Capacity: 25
Rates: Free to Indians
Superintendent: Harvey O. Power
Medical Director: Dr. H. H. Harlan
Application should be made to the superintendent.
How to reach: Blackfoot is two miles from Browning, on Great Northern Railway.
Deer Lodge (R. F. D. No. 1)
Montana State Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Feb. 1, 1913)
For all classes and cases. Indigent applications given preference.
Capacity: 89
Rates: $20. per week for those able to pay; for others no charges.
Superintendent: Dr. C. E. K. Vidal
Medical Director: Dr. R. N. Getty
Application should be made to the superintendent.
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