Famous People With Wyoming Connections

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Future partner of Harry Longabaugh, this outlaw went to prison in Laramie in 1894 for stealing horses.

A former Pony Express rider, this showman traveled the world with his Wild West Show between 1883 and 1913.

This businessman started his nationwide dry goods company in Kemmerer in 1902.

This world-famous artist, an Abstract Expressionist, was born in Cody in 1912.

This 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling hails from Afton.

A cousin to Crazy Horse, this Oglala Lakota medicine man was born in 1863 in the Powder River Basin.

This trapper and mountain man, subject of a Robert Redford movie, was reinterred in Cody in 1974.

At the beginning of his career, this writer passed through Wyoming on the way to the Nevada silver mines in 1861.

After meeting on the set of The Getaway, this action-film actor married actress Ali McGraw in Cheyenne in 1973.

A former resident of Casper, this man served as Vice-President under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009.

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Known for his little black moustache, this silent film actor married Cheyenne native Mildred Harris in 1917.

This record-breaking test pilot served as a flight officer at the Casper Air Base in 1943.

Accused of cannibalism, this notorious Colorado prospector was arrested at Fetterman City in 1883.

This British Prime Minister, born in 1874, was the nephew of Wyoming rancher Moreton Frewen.

This gunfighter and card player served as a guard on Wyoming's Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage shortly before he was shot to death in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876

This Irish playwright passed through Cheyenne twice on his 1882 American tour, but declined to detrain either time.

Author of The Sun Also Rises, this writer married his third wife in Cheyenne in 1940.

Considered the Father of Western Fiction, this author penned The Virginian, a 1902 novel set in Wyoming.

This sportscaster, born in Green River in 1919, was the longtime host of The American Sportsman.

This U. S. President, born in 1913, was the grandson of Riverton founder Charles King.