Wyoming

Wyoming history doesn’t do half-measures. From the eighty-foot snow drifts of the 1949 blizzard to the ambitious trailways of Grand Teton, answer the open challenge of our Cowboy State catalogue. Work a sheep ranch outside Laramie, haul coal in Superior and pilot the mail from Cheyenne. Maybe pause to gather provisions at Cody before heading out to honor the most committed geyser in Yellowstone National Park history. Adventure awaits in our Wyoming history books.
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The Wyoming Bomber Crash of 1943
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The Wyoming Blizzard of 1949
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The Wyoming Bomber Crash of 1943

9781467158992

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Bomber Mountain's Namesake Tragedy

 

June 1943 saw forty-one heavy bombers lost within the continental United States, including a B-17 that went missing over Wyoming late during the night of June 28. That aircraft had ten young men on board destined for World War II. They had been ordered overseas to participate in the intense and constant bombing raids being conducted in Europe, but they never made it out of America. Two years later, area cowboys discovered the wreckage strewn across an otherwise picturesque landscape. U.S. Air Corps Captain Kenneth G. Hamm noted in his personal diary, “The plane was so completely demolished that we were almost on top of it before we saw it.” Author Sylvia A. Bruner shares the stories of the men who lost their lives deep in the Bighorn Mountains and recounts the events of the crash, search and U.S. Air Corps accident investigation.

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The Wyoming Blizzard of 1949

9781625859358

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A Wyoming historian shares an in-depth look at the historic storm and its devastating aftermath through the stories of those who survived.

The Blizzard of 1949 took Wyoming and neighboring states by surprise. In January of that year, snow, wind and frigid temperatures devastated the northern plains. The storm stranded hundreds of motorists on the highways and stalled nearly two dozen trains at depots throughout the state. For nearly two months, towns and ranches were marooned by enormous drifts, some reportedly eighty feet tall.

Communities pulled together to assist not only their neighbors but also anyone unable to escape the snowstorm. Drawing on meticulous research and numerous in-person interviews, author and historian James Fuller recounts these harrowing stories of tenacity and fortitude.

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