Historic Sites
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Anna Miller Museum Newcastle, Wyoming
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Built in the 1930's, the museum was originally a WPA project for Company A, 115th Cavalry... |
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center Cody, Wyoming
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Today's Center encompasses five museums, a research library, a professionally developed... |
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Campbell County Rockpile Museum Gillette, Wyoming
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The museum contains collections of rifles, saddles, Native American artifacts, fossils,... |
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Carbon County Museum Rawlins, Wyoming
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The museum contains collections of artifacts from Union Pacific Railroad which runs... |
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Fort Caspar Museum Casper, Wyoming
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Here visitors explore central Wyoming's regional history museum, featuring exhibits on... |
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Fremont County Pioneer Museum Lander, Wyoming
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The Fremont County Pioneer Museum tells the story of the first settlers to the Freemont... |
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Hot Springs County Museum And Cultural Center Thermopolis, Wyoming
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The museum has a Main Street exhibit which contains recreations of a dozen stores from... |
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Jackson Hole Historical Society And Museum Jackson, Wyoming
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The Jackson Hole Museum began in 1958 as a private history museum to house the lifetime... |
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Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum Buffalo, Wyoming
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Jim Gatchell came to Buffalo in 1900 to establish a drug store on Buffalo’s Main... |
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Laramie Plains Museum Laramie, Wyoming
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The museum offers guided tours of the thirty-room mansion. The rooms are filled with... |
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Museum Of The Mountain Man Pinedale, Wyoming
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The Museum of the Mountain Man is located in the small rural town of Pinedale, Wyoming,... |
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National Historic Trails Interpretive Center Casper, Wyoming
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Nearly 500,000 people traveled the Oregon, Mormon, California and Pony Express Trails... |
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Old West Museum Cheyenne, Wyoming
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Since 1897, Cheyenne has been home to one of the largest celebrations of the western... |
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Rock Springs Historical Museum Rock Springs, Wyoming
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The Museum now housed there is the home of thousands of items of personal and public... |
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Sheridan County Museum Sheridan, Wyoming
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The museum highlights life in Sheridan County with dioramas, photographs and artifacts.... |
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Sweetwater County Historical Museum Green River, Wyoming
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The museum has collections ranging from fossilized fish to native tribal spearheads. I... |
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Washakie Museum Worland, Wyoming
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The museum features an exhibit on the Colby Site, the earliest mammoth kill site found in... |
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Wyoming State Museum Cheyenne, Wyoming
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The museum begin with the natural history of the region. Developed in cooperation with... |
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Wyoming Veterans' Memorial Museum Casper, Wyoming
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The museum is located on the grounds of the former Casper Army Air Base, constructed... |
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
