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Bibliography of Wyoming history

The following works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial Wyoming, Wyoming Territory and the State of Wyoming.

Surveys of Wyoming history

  • Cassity, Michael. Lives Worth Living, History Worth Preserving Wyoming: A Brief History of Wyoming 1860 - 1960 (2010)
  • Dick, Everett. Vanguards of the Frontier: A Social History of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains from the Earliest White Contacts to the Coming of the Homemaker (1941) online
  • Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Wyoming. Wyoming, a Guide to Its History, Highways, and People (1940) online famous WPA guide

Historic expeditions

Cook, Folsom, Peterson Expedition (1869)

Washburn, Langford, Doane Expedition (1870)

Hayden Geological Survey (1871)

Business, economy and labor

  • Cassity, Michael. Wyoming Will Be Your New Home: Ranching, Farming, and Homesteading in Wyoming, 1860–1960 (Cheyenne: Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources, 2011) 342 pp.
  • Cassity, Michael. Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929-1943 (Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office, 2013)

Indians

  • Hoebel, E. Adamson. The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains (1978)
  • Lowie, Robert H. The Crow Indians (U. of Nebraska Press, 1983)

Military histories

  • Fifer, Barbara. Montana Battlefields 1806-1877: Native Americans And the U.S. Army at War (2005) excerpt and text search

Primary sources

Local and regional histories

Law and order

Ghost towns

Primary sources

Biographies

  • Chamblin, Thomas S. ed. Historical encyclopedia of Wyoming (2 vol Wyoming Historical Institute, 1954); 952 biographies in 1040 pages.

Memoirs and primary sources

Political histories

Culture

Social history

Geology

Journals

  • Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal Wyoming State Historical Society in association with the Department of History, University of Wyoming. Published as the Quarterly Bulletin (1923–1925), Annals of Wyoming (1925–1993), Wyoming Annals (1993–1995) and Wyoming History Journal (1995–1996). Index

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