Wyoming is one of the states that does has a single central online state repository for searching historical newspapers. Several states use the Library of Congress Chronicling America site as their main central online site for searching old newspapers and currently Wyoming does not have newspapers available on that site. There are additional free online newspapers available on other sites and there are collections available on subscription sites. Below is a list of where the titles are stored and the link so that you can access them.
There are over 500 newspapers that have been published in the Equality State - certainly not all of them are searchable online. But the majority are indeed available. So go for it - find your Wyoming ancestors and all the interesting articles that capture the stories of their lives.
Please note that I have not always entered the dates that are included in the collections, as I suspect they will change as more items are digitized. Also I suspect that some of these links may change over time - so if there is a dead link - please use your favorite search engine to find their new location.
(Updated December, 2019; recently added links are in BOLD)
Free Sites:
Statewide Collections:
Google News Archive
- Basin - Basin Republican Rustler
- Greybull - Greybull Standard
- Hulett - The Crook County News
- Lovell - The Lovell Chronicle
- Newcastle - News Letter Journal
- Sundance - The Sundance Times
- Upton - Weston County Gazette
- Wright - High Plains Sentinel
Wyoming Newspaper Project 1849-1922
- Apex
- Arapahoe Agency Courier
- Basin City Herald
- Basin Republican
- Battle Lake Miner
- Bessemer Wyoming Journal
- Beulah Globe-News
- Big Horn Banner
- Big Horn County News
- Big Horn County Rustler
- Big Horn Hot Springs Health Reporter
- Big Horn River Pilot
- Big Horn Sentinel
- Big Piney Examiner
- Bill Barlow's Budget
- Black Diamond
- Board of Trade Journal
- Boomerang
- Branding Iron
- Bridger Valley Enterprise
- Buffalo Bulletin
- Buffalo Echo
- Buffalo News
- Buffalo Voice
- Burlington Post
- Burns Herald
- Campbell County Record
- Capitol Ave Theater
- Carbon County Journal
- Carbon County News
- Carpenter News
- Carpenter Record
- Casper Daily Press
- Casper Daily Tribune
- Casper Herald
- Casper Independent
- Casper Junior College Chinook
- Casper Press
- Casper Record
- Casper Tribune-Herald
- Casper Weekly Mail
- Casper Weekly Press
- Centennial Post
- Central Wyoming News
- Cheyenne Board of Trade
- Cheyenne Citizen
- Cheyenne Cosmopolitan
- Cheyenne Daily Argus
- Cheyenne Daily Leader
- Cheyenne Daily News
- Cheyenne Daily Sun
- Cheyenne Daily Sun-Leader
- Cheyenne Daily Tribune
- Cheyenne Illustrated
- Cheyenne Leader
- Cheyenne Review
- Cheyenne State Leader
- Cheyenne Weekly Leader
- Cheyenne Weekly Sun
- Cheyenne Weekly Sun-Leader
- Chugg Water Journal
- Chugwater News
- Chugwater Record
- Clipper
- Club Bulletin
- Cody Enterprise
- Cokeville Register
- Colony Coyote
- Converse County Herald
- Converse County Press
- Copper Mountain Miner
- Cora Sentinel
- Cowley Progress
- Cowley Weekly Progress
- Crook County Monitor
- Daily Advertiser
- Daily Boomerang
- Daily Enterprise
- Daily Independent
- Daily Rocky Mountain Star
- Daily Sun-Leader
- Daily Wyoming State Tribune
- Deaver Sentinel
- Democratic Leader (daily ed.)
- Democratic Leader (weekly ed.)
- Dillon Doublejack
- Doublejack
- Douglas Advertiser
- Douglas Budget
- Douglas Enterprise
- Dwyer Herald
- Elite
- Encampment Echo
- Encampment Record
- Encampment Valley Roundup
- Enterprise
- Evans' Drug News
- Evanston Age
- Evanston Register
- Fort D. A. Russell News
- Fort Laramie Signal and Jay Em News
- Fort Warren Sentinel
- Fremont Clipper
- Frontier Index
- Garland Guard
- Gillette News
- Gillette Saturday Shopper
- Glendo Pioneer
- Glendo Star
- Glenrock Derrick
- Glenrock Graphic
- Golden Prairie Herald
- Goshen County Journal
- Grand Encampment Herald
- Graphic
- Green River Advertiser
- Green River Star
- Green River Sun
- Greybull Standard
- Greybull Standard and Tribune
- Greybull Tribune
- Guernsey Gazette
- Guernsey Iron Gazette
- Hartville Uplift
- Heart Mountain Sentinel
- Hillsdale Review
- Holiday Elite
- Homesteader
- Homesteader's Monthly Coyote
- Homesteader's Weekly Coyote
- Hornet
- Hot Springs County News
- Hot Springs Review
- Hudson Journal
- IL Grido Del Popolo
- Indian Guide
- Indian Paint Brush
- Indian Progress
- Inter Mountain Globe
- Iron Gazette
- Jackson's Hole Courier
- Jireh Record
- Jireh Tribune
- Johnson County Republican
- Kaycee Homesteader
- Kaycee Independent
- Kaycee Optimist
- Kemmerer Camera
- Kemmerer Republican
- Knapsack
- Labor News
- Laborette
- Lander Clipper
- Lander Eagle
- Lander Evening Post
- Laramie Boomerang
- Laramie Boomerang (Semi-Weekly ed.)
- Laramie Call
- Laramie County Times
- Laramie Daily Boomerang
- Laramie Daily Bulletin
- Laramie Daily Sentinel
- Laramie Daily Sun
- Laramie Daily Times
- Laramie Republican
- Laramie Republican (Semi-Weekly ed.)
- Laramie Republican (Weekly ed.)
- Laramie Republican and Boomerang
- Laramie Semi-Weekly Boomerang
- Laramie Sentinel
- Laramie Weekly Sentinel
- Laramie Weekly Sun
- 'Leven O'Clock Roast
- Lewiston Gold Miner
- Lightning Flat Flash
- Lingle Herald
- Lost Spring Times
- Lovell Chronicle
- Lusk Free Lance
- Lusk Herald
- Lusk Standard
- Magic City Record
- Manville News
- Medicine Bow Times
- Meeteetse News
- Mid-West Industrial Journal
- Miner
- Moorcroft Democrat
- Moorcroft Leader
- Moorcroft Times
- Natrona County Tribune
- Natrona Tribune
- Newcastle Democrat
- Newcastle Journal
- Newcastle News
- Newcastle News-Journal
- Newcastle Times
- News
- News Letter
- News-Journal
- News-Record
- News-Register
- Niobrara County News
- Northern Wyoming Daily News
- Northern Wyoming Herald
- Northern Wyoming Stinger
- Northwestern Live Stock Journal
- Oil Field Review
- Osage Driller and Dry Farmer
- Otto Courier
- Park County Enterprise
- People's Voice
- Pine Bluffs Echo
- Pine Bluffs Post
- Pinedale Roundup
- Platte Valley Lyre
- Powell Leader
- Powell Tribune
- Rawlins Daily Journal
- Rawlins Daily Reminder
- Rawlins Daily Times
- Rawlins Journal
- Rawlins Republican
- Rawlins Semi-Weekly Republican
- Republican
- Republican-Bulletin
- Riverside Record
- Riverton Chronicle
- Riverton News
- Riverton Republican
- Riverton Review
- Rock River Review
- Rock Springs Adviser-News
- Rock Springs Exposer
- Rock Springs Independent
- Rock Springs Miner
- Rock Springs Rocket
- Rocky Mountain Courier
- Rowdy West
- Salt Creek Gusher
- Salt Creek Journal
- Saratoga Record
- Saratoga Sun
- Saturday Boomerang
- Semi-Weekly Boomerang
- Semi-Weekly Enterprise
- Shawnee Record
- Sheridan Daily Enterprise
- Sheridan Daily Journal
- Sheridan Enterprise
- Sheridan Journal
- Sheridan Post
- Sheridan Press
- Shoshoni Capital
- Shoshoni Capital-Gazette
- Shoshoni Enterprise
- Shoshone Valley News
- Sky Dozer
- Slip Stream
- Smoke Signals
- Snake River Sentinel
- South Pass News
- Star Valley Independent
- Star Valley Pioneer
- Stockgrower and Farmer
- Summer Sun
- Sun Annual
- Sundance Gazette
- Sundance Reform
- Sun-Leader
- Sweetwater Gazette
- Sweetwater Mines
- Thermopolis Independent
- Thermopolis Independent Record
- Thermopolis Record
- Times
- Torrington Telegram
- Trail Blazer
- Treagle
- Tribune-Stockman-Farmer
- Tri-Weekly News
- Uinta Chieftain
- Unknown
- Upton News Letter
- Van Tassell Booster
- Van Tassell Pioneer
- Vita Nuova
- Warren Mustang
- Washakie Signal Fire
- Weekly Boomerang
- Weekly Rocky Mountain Star
- Weekly Sentinel
- Weekly Sun-Leader
- Weston County Democrat
- Weston County Gazette
- Weston County Leader
- Wheatland Daily World
- Wheatland Times
- Wheatland World
- Wind River Mountaineer
- Worland Grit
- Wyoming Alumnus
- Wyoming and Its Future
- Wyoming Blade
- Wyoming Buffalo
- Wyoming Business Review
- Wyoming Commonwealth
- Wyoming Daily Morning News
- Wyoming Daily Press
- Wyoming Democrat
- Wyoming Derrick
- Wyoming Dispatch
- Wyoming Eagle
- Wyoming Farm Bulletin
- Wyoming Farmer
- Wyoming GOP Trunkline
- Wyoming Guardsman
- Wyoming Illustrated Monthly
- Wyoming Industrial Journal
- Wyoming Jaycee
- Wyoming Labor Journal
- Wyoming Liberty Bell
- Wyoming Monthly Sourvenir
- Wyoming Observer
- Wyoming Oil World
- Wyoming Press
- Wyoming Publicity Edition
- Wyoming Reporter
- Wyoming Republican
- Wyoming Semaphore
- Wyoming Semi-Weekly Tribune
- Wyoming Star
- Wyoming State Journal
- Wyoming State Journal & Lander Clipper
- Wyoming State Ledger
- Wyoming State Tribune
- Wyoming Stockgrower and Farmer
- Wyoming Stockman-Farmer
- Wyoming Student
- Wyoming Times
- Wyoming Trails
- Wyoming Tribune
- Wyoming Tribune (Rawlins)
- Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
- Wyoming Weekly Leader
- Wyoming Weekly Republican
Student Collections:
Casper College - Casper Central Wyoming College - Riverton Eastern Wyoming College - Torrington Laramie County Community College - Cheyenne Northwest College - Powell Sheridan College - Sheridan University of Wyoming - Laramie Western Wyoming Community College - Rock Springs
Miscellaneous Collections and Indexes:
Cheyenne Genealogical and Historical Society Newspaper Index 1956-2017
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Newspapers 1933-1942
- Basin - Big Horn Bleats (Company 3847)
- Basin - Big Horn Bleats (Company 2554)
- Casper - Casper Camp Chronicle (Company 1807)
- Casper - Casper Mountain Blast (Company 1807)
- Guernsey - Dam Site Bugle (Company 844)
- Laramie - Chimney Park Beacon (Company 832)
- Laramie - Chimney Park Light (Company 832)
- Laramie - Smoke From The C.C.C. Chimney (Company 832)
- Ranchester - Notes From The Big Horn (Company 853)
- Ranchester - Ripples From Tongue River (Company 853)
- Ranchester - Turkey Creek Gobbler (Company 853)
- Ranchester - Turkey Creek Gobbles (Company 853)
- Veteran - Prairie Schooner (Company 844)
Small Town Papers
- Basin Republican Rustler Basin, Wyoming
- Greybull Standard Greybull, Wyoming
- High Plains Sentinel Wright, Wyoming
- The Lovell Chronicle Lovell, Wyoming
- News Letter Journal Newcastle, Wyoming
- The Sundance Times Sundance, Wyoming
- Weston County Gazette Upton, Wyoming
- Crook County Monitor -- Sundance
- Crook County News -- Sundance
Newspaper Abstracts - Wyoming
The Olden Times - Wyoming
For Obituary Indexes, transcriptions, and other death/obituary information from historic newspapers, please check out the Obituaries page.
Other Free Sites:
Cheyenne Heart Mountain
- Heart Mountain Sentinel
- Heart Mountain Sentinel 1942 to 1945
- Hāto Maunten senchineru : Japanese edition of Heart Mountain sentinel.
Subscription or Pay Sites:
Ancestry.com:
There are currently 20 publications available at this site. See all the titles at Ancestry - Wyoming Newspapers
Genealogy Bank:
There are currently 28 publications available at this site. See all the titles at Genealogy Bank - Wyoming Newspapers
Newspaper Archive:
There are currently 29 publications available at this site. See all the titles at Newspaper Archive - Wyoming
Newspapers.com:
There are currently 10 publications available at this site. See all the titles at Newspapers.com - Wyoming.
And Finally:
You also need to visit the Wyoming Newspaper Project site from time to time, which can tell you what is occurring in the state with regard to online newspaper availability.
Please note - even more may be available via a local or state library where a library card is required. And of course there is always microfilm for those that have not been made available online as yet.
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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