Historian Says Wyoming’s Ames Monument Is The Birthplace Of ‘Murphy’s Law’

Historian Says Wyoming’s Ames Monument Is The Birthplace Of ‘Murphy’s Law’

The pessimistic belief that anything that can go wrong will likely predates modern history, but calling it “Murphy’s Law” began in Wyoming, a historian says. It dates back to the early 1880s and building the Ames Monument in the wrong place.