1857 - During the Utah War, "Wild Bill" Hickman set fire to Fort Bridger to keep it away from the approaching U.S. Army.
1902 - A contract for a bath house at the Big Horn Hot Springs was given to Jerry Ryan of Thermopolis.
1949 - Fort Francis E. Warrent was renamed Francis E. Warren Air Force Base.
1998 - In Laramie, WY, Matthew Shepard was found beaten, burned and tied to a wooden fence. He died October 12 in Fort Collins, CO. Two men were later charged with his murder.
| When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around. Dick Cheney |
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