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James Cash Penney: From Clerk to Chain-store Tycoon
The JC Penney Company, long among the world’s largest department store chains, traces its roots to a one-room shop in a small Wyomingcoal-mining town. The store’s founder was James Cash Penney, a...
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The Most Dangerous Occupation: The Quest for Safety in Wyoming’s Coal Mines
From the beginning of Wyoming Territory, coal miners worked in deep underground mines. Mining was the most dangerous occupation on the Western frontier—far more risky than rounding up cattle or working...
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A Brief History of Hanna, Wyoming
“Coal is King,” proclaims a yearly celebration in Hanna, Wyo. The sentiment is echoed by the dragline on the horizon to the north. The Arch Mineral Corporation’s Page model 742 was notable in its day...
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The Rock Springs Massacre
Perhaps the odor of burnt things gave the men some idea of what they were about to see. Mixed with it was a sicker, sweeter smell — the smell of dead things that had started to decay.The 600 Chinese...
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Thunder under the House: One Family and the Hanna Mine Disasters
One Saturday afternoon in March 1908, 17-year-old Mary Hughes was making a pudding in the kitchen of No. 77, the seventh house in the first row of houses in One Town in Hanna, Wyo. The kitchen was warm...
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James Cash Penney: From Clerk to Chain-store Tycoon
The JC Penney Company, long among the world’s largest department store chains, traces its roots to a one-room shop in a small Wyomingcoal-mining town. The store’s founder was James Cash Penney, a...
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The Most Dangerous Occupation: The Quest for Safety in Wyoming’s Coal Mines
From the beginning of Wyoming Territory, coal miners worked in deep underground mines. Mining was the most dangerous occupation on the Western frontier—far more risky than rounding up cattle or working...
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A Brief History of Hanna, Wyoming
“Coal is King,” proclaims a yearly celebration in Hanna, Wyo. The sentiment is echoed by the dragline on the horizon to the north. The Arch Mineral Corporation’s Page model 742 was notable in its day...
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The Rock Springs Massacre
Perhaps the odor of burnt things gave the men some idea of what they were about to see. Mixed with it was a sicker, sweeter smell — the smell of dead things that had started to decay.The 600 Chinese...
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Thunder under the House: One Family and the Hanna Mine Disasters
One Saturday afternoon in March 1908, 17-year-old Mary Hughes was making a pudding in the kitchen of No. 77, the seventh house in the first row of houses in One Town in Hanna, Wyo. The kitchen was warm...
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The Utah War in Wyoming
The Utah War in Wyoming Rebecca HeinDecember 4, 2017Elizabeth Cumming, cultured, observant and intelligent, suffered from a frostbitten foot, which then swelled and burst. It was November 1857; she...
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The Utah War in Wyoming
The Utah War in Wyoming Rebecca HeinDecember 4, 2017Elizabeth Cumming, cultured, observant and intelligent, suffered from a frostbitten foot, which then swelled and burst. It was November 1857; she...
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