Bibliography of Wyoming history

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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.

Contents

Surveys of Wyoming history

Historic expeditions

Cook, Folsom, Peterson Expedition (1869)

Washburn, Langford, Doane Expedition (1870)

Hayden Geological Survey (1871)

Business, economy and labor

Indians

Military histories

Primary sources

Local and regional histories

Law and order

Ghost towns

Primary sources

Biographies

Memoirs and primary sources

Political histories

Culture

Social history

Geology

Journals

Bibliographies

See also

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Notes

  1. "University Libraries Wyoming Biography Database". University of Wyoming. Archived from the original on 2012-04-05. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
  2. "University Libraries Wyoming Biography Database". University of Wyoming. Archived from the original on 2012-04-05. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
  3. "University Libraries Wyoming Biography Database". University of Wyoming. Archived from the original on 2012-04-05. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
  4. Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart at Project Gutenberg
  5. Letters on an Elk Hunt by Elinore Pruitt Stewart at Project Gutenberg
  6. "Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal". Wyoming State Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
  7. Reprints of the original works which were published over the period 1937 to 1942. Extensive run of these bibliographies of United States communities and states prepared by workers of the WPA, under the direction of Douglas C. McMurtrie.

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