Wyoming Genealogy

Wyoming Genealogy is being developed as a genealogical and historical resource for your personal use. It contains information and records for Wyoming ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Specifically, it provides sources for birth records, death records, marriage records, census records, tax records, court records, and military records. It also provides some historical details about different times and people in Wyoming history.

Wyoming’s Pioneer Ranches

  • Pioneer Ranches of the Rocky Mountain Empire
  • Laramie Plains First Area to Produce Range Cattle
  • Marks and Brands of Albany County 1871-1880
  • Dr. H. Latham, U. P. Surgeon and Laramie Plains Booster
  • Wyoming Stockgrazers Association founded in Laramie in 1871
  • Clashes between Cattle and Sheep Owners on the Laramie Plains
  • Al Houston, Pioneer Indian Fighter, Hunter and Guide
  • Landmarks on the Laramie Plains
  • Land Descriptions. Origin of Terms Section, Township and Range
  • Roads and Freighting on the Laramie Plains
  • Ranches on the Big Laramie above Laramie City
  • Ranches on the Big Laramie River below Laramie City
  • Ranches on the Little Laramie River
  • The Ranches around Tie Siding and Virginia Dale
  • Ranches of the Black Hills, Sybille and Blue Grass north of Laramie
  • Ranches between the Little Laramie and Rock Creek
  • Ranches on Rock Creek
  • Ranches in Northern Albany County
  • The Swan Land and Cattle Company
  • King Brothers Company, World Famous Sheep Breeders
  • Ranches of the Elk Mountain Country and Bow River
  • Famous Cowboys. Top Hands of the Laramie Plains
  • The Indispensable Horse: Ally of Man at Work and Play
  • Water, Vital to Man and Beast: Life Blood of the Laramie Plains
  • Changes in Ranching

New Wyoming Genealogy

History of Fort Casper

Natrona County

Collins, Caspar Wever. “Platte Bridge Station” Caspar Collins Map Collection. 2003 Early in the year 1865 a military camp was established near the present City of Casper and was known as “Platte Bridge.” Upon the recommendation of Lieut.-Col. W. O. Collins of the Eleventh Ohio Cavalry, it was changed from a small and occasional troop station to a permanent post. In his official communication, Lieutenant Colonel Collins said: “The permanent cure for the hostilities of the northern Indians is to go into the heart of their buffalo country and build and hold forts until the trouble is over.” On March…

History of Fort Halleck

Carbon County

Fort Halleck, named in honor of Gen. Henry W. Halleck, one of the noted Union .generals in the Civil war, was established on July 20, 1862. It was located near the foot of the Medicine Bow Mountains and was for a time the most important military post in the Rocky Mountain region, being the center of the Indian warfare of that period. In the spring of 1863, when Capt. J. L. Humfreville of the Eleventh Ohio Cavalry was in command of the post, the troops worked both east and west from the fort, guarding mail coaches and emigrant trains, and…

History of Fort Walbach

Laramie County

Under an order dated September 20, 1858, Fort Walbach was established on Lodge Pole Creek, near Cheyenne Pass, eighty-five miles southwest of Fort Laramie. It was named in honor of Brig. Gen. John DeB. Walbach, a distinguished soldier of the War of 181 2. As the post was not intended as a permanent institution, only buildings of a temporary nature were constructed. The fort was abandoned on April 19, 1859. The site of this old fort was marked by the Wyoming Daughters of the American Revolution in 1914.

History of Fort Bridger

Uinta County
Sometime in the year 1842 James Bridger and Benito Vasquez established a trading post on Black’s Fork of the Green River, about thirty miles east of the present city of Evanston and gave it the name of Fort Bridger. Here was made the second permanent settlement in Wyoming. The post was several times attacked by Indians, one of the most disastrous occurring in August, 1843. The fort was surrounded by a number of Shoshone Indian lodges, that tribe being on friendly terms with the old trader and his partner.

History of Camp Carlin

Laramie County

Camp Carlin – Cheyenne Depot, Wyoming 1884 Shortly after the establishment of Fort Russell and the completion of the railroad across the continent, supplies that were formerly transported by wagon were shipped by rail and it became necessary to establish distributing points for handling army freight. Accordingly a quartermaster’s depot was located at Cheyenne, or more properly, on the Fort Russell reserve about half way between the city and the fort. When first located it was given the name of Camp Carlin, but when enlarged and completed it obtained the official name of “Cheyenne Depot.” The central situation of Cheyenne…

History of Fort D. A. Russell

Laramie County
For the protection of the men engaged in the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, military camps were established along the line in advance of the working forces. A year before the road was completed to the present site of Cheyenne, Gen. Grenville M. Dodge with his corps of engineers and a company of soldiers, encamped on Crow Creek where Fort Russell is now located. They lived in tents but soon began to erect log cabins. Early in 1867, the Government decided to make Fort Russell a permanent post and erect substantial buildings. The first trip made by John Hunton…
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