Research Resources

I hope you find these resources helpful in your search for your ancestors. The links are on the left. If you have any resources that you consider helpful, please let me know.

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The Johnson County War
Originally published: 2004
Author: Bill O'Neal


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In the early 1890s Wyoming's northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision that pitted cattle barons and powerful politicians against homesteaders and rustlers.

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Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County
Originally published: 2010
Author: Horst Möller
Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. ..

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Banditti of the Plains
Book
Banditti of the Plains is a book written by Asa Mercer about the Johnson County War in Wyoming, United States

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Locating the Iron Trail Hardcover – Import, 1925
by Edward Gillette (Author), Photos (Illustrator)
1925. GILLETTE, Edward. LOCATING THE IRON TRAIL. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, [1925]. 8vo., blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition- all plates are present. Edward Gillette [1854-1936] was an engineer with the Chicago, Burlington and Chicago Railroad. As engineer he found a much shorter route than the one originally intended for the railroad through Wyoming; thus, saving the railroad a lot of money. He was hoping the railroad would show its appreciation with a nice financial bonus and, indeed, the railroad did reward him but by naming the town of Gillette, west of the Black Hills in northern Wyoming, after him in 1891.
THIS BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT- ONLINE LINK TO READ IT HERE!

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NEVER A DULL MOMENT: Reflections of a Wyoming Cowboy Paperback– October 15, 2014
by Claude Gray (Author)
NEVER A DULL MOMENT: Reflections of a Wyoming Cowboy is a memory book of the 1900s. Claude Gray is a man of his day: unselfconscious, opinionated, and bigoted, yet at the same time, astonishingly accepting of other people's foibles. He turns out to be an authentic storyteller with wit, and many a well-turned phrase. His content ranges from memories about individual people to information about formative events and activities from early 1900 to the midpoint of the century.
Fort Reno and Cantonment Reno: Indian Wars Outposts on Powder River

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Owen Wister who authored The Virginian spent time in Johnson County around 1890. He noticed the cowboy vernacular and started writing down their vocabulary words in a notebook. Later he used these words to craft his story. Wister was enamored by the cowboy way of life that he experienced on his trips to Wyoming. In a note to the reader written in 1902 he penned this beautiful passage describing Wyoming between 1874 and 1890...
"Had you left New York or San Francisco at ten 0'clock this morning, by noon the day after to-morrow you could step out at Cheyenne. There you would stand at the heart of the world that is the subject of my picture, yet you would look around you in vain for the reality. It is a vanished world. No journeys, save those which memory can take, will bring you to it now. The mountains are there, far and shining, and the sunlight, and the infinite earth, and the air that seems forever the true fountain of youth, - but where is the buffalo, and the wild antelope, and where the horseman with his pasturing thousands? So like its old self does the sage-brush seem when revisited, that you wait for the horseman to appear. But he will never come again. He rides in his historic yesterday."

Camping at Lake DeSmet

Cattle War of 1892

ABANDONED AND LITTLE KNOWN AIRFIELDS OF WYOMING

Civil War Pensioners, Wyoming, 1883

Civil War Information

Mather Genealogy Study

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

The Civil War Sleuth

University of Wyoming

US Bureau Land Management – Information on land grants

US Census Genealogy Page

US Military Viet Nam Casualties- Wyoming

USGenWeb  Special Projects

Veterans Gravesite Locator

Western States Marriages

WWI Casualties – Wyoming

WWII Casualties – Wyoming

WYOMING DEATH INDEXES

Wyoming Gravestone Project

Wyoming Home Page

Wyoming Index

Wyoming Inventors

Wyoming Newspaper project

Wyoming Oral histories

Wyoming Trademarks

2019 Wyoming Brand Registry

1977, the barbershop quartet "The Limited Edition."  Paul Dickey (tenor), Rande Money (lead), Jeff Young (Bass) and Lyn Kostenbauer (baritone) comprise "The Limited Edition", the Chorus of the Big Horn's barbershop quartet which will be performing in the Chorus' "Charter Night Special" on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the BHS auditorium. Also featured will be two othe quartets, The Classic Collection from Denver and the The Dakota Territories from Rapid City, as well as The Shrine of Democracy Chorus from Rapid City and Buffalo's Chorus of the Big Horns.  

1946 Johnson County WY Fair Program