Monthly Archives: September 2020

Living Through a Pandemic: Eight Months of Donations to the American Heritage Center’s COVID-19 Collection Project

Posted on September 30, 2020 by ahcadmin

The AHC COVID-19 Collection Project began in April 2020 as an effort to collect stories, photographs, poems, and other creative works that show the impact coronavirus has had on our community. Not just the University of Wyoming employees, students, and … Continue reading →

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Cheyenne Women of the Ku Klux Klan

Posted on September 21, 2020 by ahcadmin

In 1924 Denver residents Laurena H. Senter, Metta L. Gremmels, and Dr. Esther B. Hunt incorporated a chapter of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado. Senter was a pillar of the Denver KKK community as well as … Continue reading →

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Amigos de la Comunidad of Torrington, Wyoming

Posted on September 7, 2020 by ahcadmin

In box 9 of the Lawrence Cardoso papers housed at the American Heritage Center is a booklet dating to the mid-1970s titled “Amigos de la Comunidad.” I was leafing through that particular box searching for something totally unrelated. But the … Continue reading →

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