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Title	Article Type	Author
Absaroka Mountains, mining in	Encyclopedia	Brian Beauvais
Airmail, U.S. in Wyoming	Encyclopedia	Steve Wolff
American Indian tribes, trade among	Encyclopedia	Samuel Western
Arnold, Thurman, Laramie lawyer and New Deal trustbuster	Encyclopedia	Dee Pridgen
Atlantic City, Wyo.	Encyclopedia	Lori Van Pelt
Automobile, Wyoming’s first	Encyclopedia	Phil Roberts

William H. Zindel: Wyoming’s Immaculate Pioneer

William H. Zindel took a gamble on Wyoming when he moved to the territory six years before statehood. He boosted two Wyoming towns, earning a reputation for his cleanliness, opulence, and shrewd business sense. Read more about Zindel and his enormous diamond ring in Nancy Tabb’s "William H. Zindel: Wyoming’s Immaculate Pioneer."

Lawyers and the Law in Early Wyoming

When, on July 9, 1867, James Whitehead pitched his tent on an empty plain next to Crow Creek, he became not only Cheyenne’s first resident but its first lawyer. The next day, lawyer W. W. Corlett stopped by. By afternoon, the two were partners: Corlett bought in with $5 greenback.

Homesteader Cecilia Hendricks: Letters from Honeyhill

“I got a letter today,” Cecilia Hennel noted in her diary in 1911, “from someone who signed himself John Hendricks, asking me if I would consider a proposal of marriage from him. . . . I should like to know who he is, and how he got my name . . . [he must be] somebody pretty ‘fresh.’”

Jenna Baumgart

In the 1990s, Jenna Baumgart served the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra as principal viola, personnel manager and music librarian. She was responsible for locating and hiring import musicians, and making sure they got paid.

Belinda Waldron

Belinda Waldron, cello, played in the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra in the 1990s.

Virginia Himes

Virginia Himes began playing violin in the Casper Civic Symphony in 1974 and retired from what had become the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra in 2019, totaling 45 years.

Amy Cowell

Amy Cowell played cello in the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra in the 1990s when in high school. She now plays regularly as an import musician, commuting from Laramie, Wyoming.

Susan Stanton

Susan Stanton joined the orchestra in 1994, and still played violin in the symphony as of the end of the 2023-2024 season.

Richard Turner

Richard Turner was principal bassoon with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra starting in 1996, and is still in the orchestra. The symphony featured him as a local soloist in spring 1999, when he performed the Mozart Bassoon Concerto.

Dino Madsen

Dino Madsen played cello in the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra while a student at Casper College, in the 1990s.

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