About 10 years before Dickman’s research project, Jim Hand, a former assistant registrar at UW, wrote “The Six-Masted Schooner Wyoming,” a poem about the sinking of the ship. Hand’s poem resurfaced ...

Today in Wyoming history: In 1909, the six-masted schooner “Wyoming,” the largest wooden schooner ever built, launched in Bath, Maine. The huge schooner was the last one launched on the ...