Photograph of a convoy, one of hundreds, led by an Army bulldozer struggling down the drift-choked Brooks Road to bring food an fuel for both men and animals on ranches marooned by the blizzard. In January 1949, one of the worst recorded blizzards in…
Photograph of Caril Ann Fugate sitting in the Converse County Sheriff’s office in Douglas, Wyoming. The image is from a collection of photographs of the Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate case from 1958. Starkweather and Fugate, then only 19…
Some folks come here and simply launch their boats on the ramps conveniently constructed by the Casper Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center on the Bureau of Reclamation`s Alcova Reservoir. However, Orval Dehning of Casper on right, assisted by…
Orval Dehming`s unique knockdown boat, which can be disassembled and stored in the trunk of an automobile, floats on Cottonwood Bay to the interest of his friends and family.
Cottonwood Bay, on the Bureau of Reclamation`s Alcova Reservoir has been…
Setting up pup tents near a picnic shelter in the Cottonwood Bay Recreation Area, Earl McNees and Neal Blank, Casper, prepare to spend the week end at the site. Picnic shelters and charcoal broilers, such as seen in the background, have been erected…
Site of extensive development by the Casper Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center. Cottonwood Bay Recreation Area on the Bureau of Reclamation`s Alcova Reservoir is a popular gathering place during the summer months. This photograph is part of a…
The stonework jetty in Cottonwood Recreation Area on Alcova Reservoir constructed by the Casper Job Corps Center as part of the development of the area. This photograph is part of a collection that consists of photographs and negatives created and/or…
Most of the area that is now Wyoming, except for a small attachment remaining with Idaho territory, became part of Dakota territory in May of1864, for a four-year period until Wyoming, itself, became a territory in 1868. Not the lightly engraved…
This letterbox contains the following: a bulletin from the Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs titled "Indian Missions of the United States" from 1928, notes from Alfred J. Mokler regarding the Lajeunesse family, an account of Charles…
This notebook contains several articles written and edited by Alfred J. Mokler. These pieces include historical events, people, and places of Wyoming. Not all articles are digitized and are available for in-person viewing. Not digitized articles…