Wyoming Court Records: Federal Court

Records about violations of federal statutes, including selling liquor to Indians, prostitutions across state lines, robbing post offices, illegal fencing of public lands, theft of federal property, illegal use of natural resources, and bankruptcy. The Wyoming State Archives has the following records:

Laramie County

• appearance docket, 1869-1969

Albany County

• appearance docket, 1869-1889
• journals, 1869-1890

Uinta County

• account statements, 1875-1890
• appointments, 1876-1885
• case files, 1870-1890
• journal, 1877-1887
• trial docket, [need dates]

Most Federal Court records are not held at the Wyoming State Archives. Consult the National Archives and Records Commission for more recent Federal Court records in Wyoming

U.S. Attorney for Wyoming Records

• case files, 1871-1949
• correspondence, 1868-1931
• investigations, 1870-1927

U.S. Clerk of District Court, Second Judicial District

• bankruptcy case papers, 1869-1878
• case papers, 1876-1939

U.S. Commissioner

• monthly reports, Cheyenne, 1875-1878,
• monthly reports, Laramie, 1883-1888
• Immigration Correspondence, 1893 

U.S. Marshall

• correspondence, 1898-1908

U.S. Department of Justice, Wyoming Records, 1866-1949

• Records include information on Federal court cases tried in or affecting Wyoming, and registration of aliens (usually Germans), slackers and delinquents in Wyoming during World War I.

U.S. Bailiff

U.S. Penitentiary