Oscar Wilde sighted in Cheyenne (1882)

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Title

Oscar Wilde sighted in Cheyenne (1882)

Subject

Oscar Wilde

Description

The Fort Collins Daily Express reports on a sighting of Oscar Wilde at the Cheyenne train depot in March 1882. It is likely that Wilde was enroute by train from a lecture in Omaha, Nebraska to his first lecture stop in California in San Francisco. Wilde would later come through Cheyenne again before heading south to Denver for his first lecture in the State of Colorado. On this final leg of the trip, Wilde passed through Northern Colorado, though he never appears to have stepped foot off the train here.

Creator

Fort Collins Daily Express

Source

Newspapers.com

Publisher

Fort Collins Daily Express, March 24, 1882, pp. 4.

Date

March 24, 1882

Contributor

Thomas R. Dunn (researcher)

Rights

Public domain -- published before 1926

Format

PDF, JPEG

Language

English

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Original Format

newspaper

Files

Citation

Fort Collins Daily Express, “Oscar Wilde sighted in Cheyenne (1882),” Northern Colorado Queer Memory Project, accessed February 9, 2026, https://nocoqueermemory.omeka.net/items/show/173.