The presenters, commentators and content is excellent, thanks for sharing!

I like historical videos like this. Nice job!

As late as 1977 there was a law still existing that stated (When a Prisoner had been released after serving his sentence he or she was to outfitted with a horse, a rifle,and a certain amount of money.) I don't remember how much money it was, but it was enouph to sustain a man, and his horse for 30 days. I lived in Wyoming back in 1976 - 1980, and I knew a man who had recently been released from the territorial prison in Rawlins, and he was in the process of filing a lawsuit demanding the State give him a horse, and a rifle with the equivalent of a months wages in the current year.

thanks for the great documentary

I am not even from Wyoming and I find this fascinating.

Another great documentary from you!

I miss the 90's.

Very informative. I love history and PBS shows such as this are perfect for enriching us all! Thank you!

The first couple minutes look just like the old jail in Helena Montana where I spent some time "A few times "

One reason horse thefts were punished severely, horses were transportation. Go twenty miles away from Laramie and be left a foot. You'll get the idea.

thanks for the words

Wyoming PBS rocks!

. I was very much impressed with the PBS presentation. Several decades past, I was presented with a sledge hammer head from the old prison. My uncle, who worked for the UPRR then, said he was on a break, just wandering around the old Ag Research grounds and found it half buried. The hammer head is completely mushroomed on both ends about 25% to 30%. Imagine the physical exertion required. I guess not being able to speak made it easier to do the work (nothing trivial to think of). Rehabilitation wasn't considered then. This was punishment. I wonder what the recidivism rate was.

I loved going into the territorial prison loved visiting Butch casidys cell loved that place dont know why though lol im Scottish but loved living in Laramie

i love this old documentaire really

I remember going through that prison in the 1970's when I was attending the University of Wyoming. There was a room with an electric chair in it. That was pure creepy! They removed it sometime later when they were renovating it. I don't know if anyone was ever executed there but it was ultra creepy just looking at that thing!

enjoyed

We should have these laws in our prisons in 2019!!

Lived across the Street from the old Territorial Prison in its last days, was Interesting to say the least. This was in Rawlins. ☮️

Actually Butch Cassidy was also in the state pen in Rawlins Wyoming I have been there on tour

Home town!!

Haven't been to Wyoming Territorial Prison, but have toured the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. The original prison was built during the Civil War, and it's a real educational experience to be allowed to go through the cell block and see how prisoners were forced to live. Really terrible, and horrible to contemplate ever being confined in such an awful place. Frontier justice was brutal, no doubt about it.

Shop lifting is a felony, if the value is $100. Or more in most places

What did he mean when he said the railroad left by 1869. That was the year they first completed the transcontinental.

Great place to visit if passing through. Definitely worth the time. You are allowed to wander the prison on your own. As rough as it may have been in those days, prison then would be a better time for most than spending time in a modern prison with it's violence and sexual assault on weaker prisoners. Well made video.

02:49 laramie city is: fort laramie I suppose? (I am French) so I ask because I am discovering the history of the USA in the period at the end of 1800 06:56 god! it's destroyed Why was a large majority of buildings in the USA during the late 1800s and 1800s, the buildings were almost all made of wood? There was plenty of stone available on site and the majority of the population was from the old European continent! Sweden France Germany Norway ...? Was their culture of co-construction at the base, the stone and cement? Why doesn't he reproduce his habitat style in the end? The risk has been demonstrated several times with the "San fransisco" "Deadwood" fires for the best known to my knowledge and many other small towns in the west I suppose?

13:49.Ibet the sheep were nervous!! lol.

Poor Butch and Bob Meeks jumped from the 3rd Floor with syphilis....

Most non Americans get their info about the WILD WEST from television or the movies. It is good to get the real facts from documentaries such as this. Many thanks greetings from the Philippines.

i live in wyoming and i have seen what they had to do with my class at indian paintbrush elementry

Too many suggestions of support needed. Many of us Do Not have disposable income - Deal with it,,,

Interesting docco. However, the use of 'flickering' on the modern sepia coloured film segments is not a good plan. It is potentially distressing to anyone suffering epilepsy, prone to headaches, or with eyesight difficulties. Very badly planned and executed from the cinematography aspect. It does not even replicate the original film flickers at all, which makes it completely redundant as well. Pity.

So kill a deputy and only get 2 years? Get out and stop being a criminal and all of sudden he is a hero?

Horse theives back then got a"suspended sentence".Get it,a"suspended sentence".lol lol

all the homeless people including homeless vets returning from war and they spend Millions to refurbish an old prison? Wow that really says a lot about our priorities here doesn't it?

PBS, can never get it right.

Amazingly it took 5 minutes to get into the SJW stuff.

That woman was literally smiling about putting people in cages.

They need someone else to do the talking as she has a very bad whiney voice

Sloppy presentation.

Wyoming is so boring.