The newspaper was established by Buffalo Bill and John Peake in 1899.
[6] In 1904, it was bought by Caroline Lockhart, a Prohibition crusader and novelist originally from Boston.
[8] In the summer of 1936, it featured articles about artists Edward Thomas Grigware and Stan Kershaw.
[13] In August 2024, a reporter for the Cody Enterprise was caught using artificial intelligence to create news stories and fabricate quotes, including fake statements from Wyoming governor Mark Gordon.
The journalist responsible for the stories resigned and the publisher created an official AI policy to prevent similar issues.