But the remarkable story of the Guard’s history of state and federal service has remained untold. We need your support to achieve our goal of publishing the first complete Wyoming National Guard history.

Description goes hereThe Wyoming National Guard Historical Society (WYNGHS) was one of seven nonprofit organizations throughout Wyoming to receive significant grants from Wyoming Humanities in January 2024.

From late 2020 to early 2021, the 1898 1st Wyoming colors were restored by Paulette Reading of Mountain States Textile Conservation. The process included cleaning as well as repairing damage to a number of areas on the flag. The flag was revealed at an event at the Wyoming State Museum on March 22, 2021.

In September 2022, Larry Barttelbort, volunteer coordinator, and Rosalind Schliske, managing editor, both with the Wyoming National Guard history project, recorded an interview explaining the origins and goals of the Telling Our Story project. The audio interview was conducted as part of the Military Voices Initiative for StoryCorps. Since 2003, StoryCorps has recorded more than half a million people, preserving them in the StoryCorps Archive, housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The archive comprises one of the first and the largest born-digital collections of human voices, featuring tens of thousands of conversations recorded across the United States and around the world.

On November 10, 2022, fundraising for the Wyoming Guard history project was launched at a party at the World Headquarters in Cheyenne of Blue FCU, the project’s Summit Peak Business Partner. Leading the festivities were the fundraising co-chairs, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Ed Wright, former adjutant general, and Col. (ret.) Rita Meyer, former state auditor. The Wyoming National Guard Historical Society, a nonprofit 501(3)(c) organization, accepted the contributions.

Money isn’t all the project needs. To ensure the history is as complete as possible, memorabilia connected to the Wyoming National Guard in any form—diaries, memories, photos, letters, emails, etc.—will help the project “Tell Our Story.“ Look in your attic, basement or garage for those items. They can be returned to donors after they are photographed and recorded.