The Wyoming Historian

The Wyoming Historian is the Wyoming Historical Society’s journal of Wyoming history. It picks up the thread the Annals of Wyoming carried from 1923, and the first issue appeared in February 2026.

Each issue is a bound paperback rather than a stapled periodical, on the reasoning that a journal meant to be kept should survive being kept. Single issues and a year’s subscription are both sold through the Society’s store.

Current issue

Volume I · Issue I

February 2026

Taking the Train to Yellowstone, by Loretta Evans, with 5 more pieces inside.

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In this issue

  1. Taking the Train to YellowstoneLoretta Evans
  2. William A. Carter and the Fort Bridger sutler storeEphriam D. Dickson III
  3. “Persimmon Bill”: a life of William ChambersRandy Tucker
  4. The Beehive Boom: charcoal kilns in southwestern WyomingThomas J. Straka and Douglas H. Page, Jr.
  5. A fatal night aboard the Overland Limited, 1905J. M. Brink
  6. Book reviews and Society Chronicles

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Cars and shopfronts along Main Street in Laramie, Wyoming, photographed in 1940.

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Panoramic painting of pine-topped buttes rising over open Wyoming country.

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Cheyenne Frontier Days parade, downtown Cheyenne, 2015

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