More details are emerging over the rift that has grown in a decades-long partnership between three of Wyoming’s most prominent history groups, the Wyoming Historical Society, Wyoming Historical Foundation, and WyoHistory.Org. Records show problems leading to their split began much earlier than February, as first reported.

According to records with the Secretary of State’s office, the Wyoming Historical Society failed to file its tax statement by the Oct. 1 deadline last year. It was administratively dissolved on Dec. 9 as a result.

Wyoming Historical Society Executive Director Aley Philp did not respond to Cowboy State Daily’s questions about the split, but in a Dec. 19 email chain, obtained by Cowboy State Daily, Philp told then-president of the Society, Jessica Flock, that her group

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