Seventeen year old Annie Bruce became the first female inmate at the Wyoming State Penitentiary and the first woman convicted of any form of murder in the state. She confessed to the murder of her father by poison. Was she guilty or did she take the fall to protect her mother? You be the judge.

Seventeen year old Annie Bruce became the first female inmate at the Wyoming State Penitentiary and the first woman convicted of any form of murder in the state. She confessed to the murder of her father by poison. Was she guilty or did she take the fall to protect her mother? You be the judge.

The Sad Saga of Miss Annie Bruce

Listen to Wyoming's West come alive with untold stories researched by Wyoming native and historian, Clay Gibbons. Learn a new appreciation for the people and places that made up Wyoming's western history.

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