Casper Star-Tribune history

In 1897, A.J. Mokler acquired the newspaper and changed its name to the Natrona County Tribune.

The Natrona County Courthouse near the end of construction in 1909.

Patten home on Wolcott between First and Second Streets, 1912.

Mokler sold the Tribune in 1914 to J.E. Hanway and Associates and two years later Hanway produced the first edition of the Casper Daily Tribune, which quickly grew to become the largest newspaper in Wyoming by circulation.

Natrona Supply Company, 1917.

Adam Lochner Sr. with his first automobile on the Lochner homestead west of Casper, 1920.

Family of sheepherder William Joseph and Nora (Noni) Swanton, 1923.

Julia Ellis Begley (left) and Mary Ellis Daly at Frank Ellis's sheep wagon in Natrona County, 1925.

Richard Bennett's first horseback ride on Linstead Ranch past Midwest, circa 1928.

Adam and Jean (McClellan) Lochner with their first child, Caroline, at the Lochner homestead west of Casper, 1929.

Katie (Swanton) Lucey in front of her home on the corner of Eighth and Wolcott, 1930.

Adam and Jean Lochner with children Caroline (standing) and Adam Jr. on the Lochner homestead west of Casper in 1931.

Wolter family showing off their new oven at the opening of Wolter's Bakery in 1934.

Adam Lochner Sr. on a horse at the Lochner homestead west of Casper, 1935.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (back seat, passenger side) riding past the 200 block of South Center Street in September 1937.

Nellie Taylor holding Neoma Dressler with Dunc Dressler (left) and Butch Dressler on the Taylor Ranch near Edgerton, circa 1938.

Fred and Herman Wolter, 1941.

Adam Lochner Sr. walking down Center Street, circa 1942.

A rancher who homesteaded west of Casper, Lochner lost part of his alfalfa field to the Casper Air Base around 1943.

Bill Swanton in front of his home at 205 East Eighth Street, 1946.

Kathleen Swanton, a secretary for Casper Air Service, at Wardwell Field, 1947.

Natrona County legislators, 1949.

Summer bike parade entrants at the Natrona County Courthouse, 1950.

Pacific Power & Light line crew at the corner of Kimball Street and Collins Drive, circa 1951.

The Tribune Company acquired the Morning Star in 1955.

Lloyd Oler's Casper Motorcycle Sales, a BSA and Indian dealership at 1343 South McKinley, 1956.

Sharon Dressler holding daughter Leona while Elsie Fish fixes her hair, 1957.

Marilyn Ladd jumping off the "Constam T-Bar," Hogadon Ski Area's new ski lift, in 1960.

In 1961 both newspapers were sold to Wyoming Publishers Inc., which renamed the daily edition the Casper Tribune and created a new Sunday edition called the Casper Star-Tribune.

Natrona County High School Class of 1962 ten-year reunion.

Bill Sikes Jr., Vance Burch, and Chuck Kudolla at 6600 South Poplar Street, July 1966.

Steve Bergman and Chuck Kudolla with Bergman's Triumph TR3 at 6600 South Poplar Street, 1967.

Pacific Power & Light line crew in Lovell, WY. 1972

The Budweiser Clydesdales at the Natrona County Fair and Rodeo Parade sponsored by the Lions Club, 1978.

In 1980, the airport bought the homestead and additional acreage.

What he found led the Casper Star-Tribune on a probe in 1984 that revealed how a gas company was passing the cost of its own mismanagement on to Casper customers.

In 1985, the Casper Star-Tribune was the runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in excellence in public service journalism for its investigation of Northern Utilities Inc.

Casper Ski Club pioneers at Hogadon Ski Area, 1991.

Reunion of Casper Mountain Racers "President Cup" recipients at Hogadon Ski Area in 2000.

Bob Kidd volunteering as a Casper Mountain Racers coach at Hogadon Ski Area in 2005.

The Casper Star-Tribune began charging for access to its website in 2011 by using a metered paywall.