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	Wyoming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the northwest are the Absaroka, the Owl Creek, Wyoming, Gros Ventre, Wind River and the Teton ranges.
		Wyoming was admitted to the Union on July 10, 1890.
		Wyoming is predominantly conservative and politically Republican (69% voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wyoming (2689 words)

	Wyoming
		Wyoming gets its name from the Algonquin words for "land of vast plains." After the Union Pacific Railroad reached the town of Cheyenne, the capital, in 1867, the population began to grow steadily in the Wyoming Territory, established in 1868.
		Wyoming was admitted as the 44th state in 1890.
		Wyoming is the smallest state in the Union in population.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/wy (127 words)

	United States Senator Mike Enzi : About Wyoming
		Wyoming women were the first in the nation to vote, serve on juries and hold public office.
		Upon the organization of Wyoming Territory, a portion of Utah and Idaho, extending from Montana (including Yellowstone Park) to the Wyoming-Utah boundary, was annexed and named Uinta County.
		The Ninth Territorial Legislative Assembly authorized the construction of the building in 1886, and on May 18, 1887, the cornerstone was laid.
	enzi.senate.gov /public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutWyoming.WyomingFacts (1368 words)

	The US50 - A guide to the state of Wyoming - History
		One of the earliest explorers of Wyoming was John Colter in 1807.
		Wyoming is also known as the "Equality State" because of the rights women have traditionally enjoyed here.
		In 1869, Wyoming's territorial legislature became the first government in the world to grant "female suffrage" by enacting a bill granting Wyoming women the right to vote.
	www.theus50.com /wyoming/history.shtml (3464 words)

	Wyoming Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wyoming Territory was an organized territory of the United States that existed from 1868 until its admission to the Union as the State of Wyoming in 1890.
		Portions of the territory which eventually fell under Wyoming's jurisdiction were at various points associated with Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Dakota, Nebraska and Utah, and had previously belonged to the independent states of Great Britain, France, Spain, Mexico, and Texas.
		The portion of the Wyoming Territory east of the continental divide was acquired by the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and organized into the Nebraska Territory in 1854.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wyoming_Territory (479 words)

	wyoming map and map of wyoming information page
		Statehood was on the minds of many, and in 1888, the Wyoming Territory sent the U.S. Congress an official petition for admission into the Union, but it was initially rejected.
		In the 20th century Wyoming's economy was bolstered by the chemical and petroleum industries; the discovery and mining of uranium, and by coal mining and the subsequent electric power generation.
		Wyoming's rich history chronicles cowboy campfires, frontier settlers, Indian cultures and old western towns, and here you can easily catch a glimpse of that past surrounded by one of America's most scenic landscapes.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/wy.htm (720 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Wyoming
		Wyoming, the forty-fourth state admitted to the American Union, derives its name from the Delaware Indian word "Maughwauwama", signifying mountains with large plains between.
		Wyoming, according to population, contributed a larger percentage of volunteer soldiers to the service of the Government during the Spanish-American War than any other state, and was the first state to report troops mustered in and ready for service.
		The State of Wyoming is carved out of territory obtained from four principal annexations comprising the main land west of the Mississippi River, viz.: the Louisiana purchase (1803); the Oregon Country by discovery, settlement, and treaty (1792, 1805, 1811, 1819, 1846), the Texas annexation (1845); and the Mexico concession (1848).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15724b.htm (3245 words)

	Wyoming State History
		Wyoming is comprised of a large plateau broken by significant mountain ranges, home to a large and diverse population of wildlife.
		Early on as fur traders and trappers entered the territory, the Indians acted as partners in hunting big game, but as time went on, the relationship became increasingly hostile as the Indians began to see their hunting lands were diminishing.
		The State Capitol of Wyoming is located in the heart of Cheyenne, in the southeastern region of the state.
	www.codywyomingnet.com /state_of_wyoming/wyoming_history.php (952 words)

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		The Wyoming population of 8,014 citizens was primarily distributed in the boom towns of Cheyenne, Laramie City, Rawlins Springs, Green River, Rock Springs and Evanston, along the nearly-completed transcontinental railroad, with army forts, telegraph stations, and mining fields across the territory holding a smattering of residents as well.
		Early settlers were present in the territory mostly as a result of federal land disposal acts, and the territorial government considered water to be attendant to the land disposed, and its ownership, therefore, to not necessarily be under territorial jurisdiction.
		While the most recent territorial laws were heavily drawn upon for their value as the last step in the evolution of territorial water law, there were new provisions in the new laws, some based on the ambitious on-the-ground experimentation done by Engineer Mead in the previous two years.
	wwdc.state.wy.us /history/Wyoming_Water_Law_History.html (17536 words)

	Wyoming Game and Fish - Wildlife Management - 1313
		Even before Wyoming became a state, people in the area started to see the importance of their wildlife and other natural resources, and the danger of not taking care of them.
		Wyoming’s idea of licensing hunters was catching on across the country.
		The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) manages all the wildlife within the sate (not just game animals) for the benefit of all the people of the state and for the generations of the people in the future.
	gf.state.wy.us /services/university/educationexam/wildmgmt (1017 words)

	Right to Vote -- Wyoming and Women Discussion (May 1998)
		Whatever the original reasons, Wyoming generally embraced the concept of votes for women, to the point that they almost refused to come in as a state if they could not come in with the women's vote.
		There are a number of reasons why Wyoming Territory passed the bill granting women the right to vote and hold public office.
		Wyoming had been created in 1868 and only had eight to nine thousand people by 1869 so the hope was to get some free advertisement and perhaps draw some women to the new territory.
	www.h-net.org /~women/threads/disc-wyomingvote.html (1764 words)

	Wyoming News
		Western Wyoming was obtained by the U.S. in the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain and as a result of the treaty ending the Mexican War in 1848.
		When the Wyoming Territory was organized in 1869, Wyoming women became the first in the nation to obtain the right to vote.
		Historians believe the first Europeans to see Wyoming were Francois and Louis Verendrye, who arrived in 1743, but it wasn't until 1807 that John Colter, who had been a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, first explored the area that would become Yellowstone National Park.
	www.angelfire.com /rock3/airspirit/Wyoming.html (792 words)

	Historical Wyoming Tidbits - The Equality State
		He was ably assisted by Edward Lee, the Secretary of Wyoming Territory and a prominent suffragist.
		These laws gave women control over their personally owned property and earnings, required that men and women heirs be treated equally when a person died without a will, and specified that mortgages taken out against a homestead were not binding on a wife unless she had signed it as well as her husband.
		When Wyoming's women got their first chance at the polls in September of 1870, the majority of them turned out and voted two to one for the Republican party, even though it had been a Democratic legislature that had given them suffrage.
	www.wyomingbnb-ranchrec.com /History.Equality.html (701 words)

	The Wyoming Companion - Heritage and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After a long train ride to somewhere in Wyoming the investigators, with their eyes covered, were led on a zig-zag course where they found exactly what the miners had said.
		While no Wyoming citizen was implicated in the scheme, the press reports tainted the young territory's image.
		One of the fiercest blizzards to strike southern Wyoming in many years was reported in Cheyenne and Laramie newspapers during the week of the proposed move.
	www.wyomingcompanion.com /history/wchh5_1.html (1662 words)

	Today in History: December 10
		Commemorated in later years as Wyoming Day, the event was one of many firsts for women achieved in the Equality State.
		Wyoming voters again made history in 1924 when they elected Nellie Taylor Ross as the first woman governor in the United States.
		A native of New York state, Morris embraced the women's rights movement when she was prevented, on account of the discriminatory property laws in the state of Illinois, from claiming title to a tract of land left to her by her deceased husband.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec10.html (874 words)

	Wyoming: History, Geography, Population, and State Facts — FactMonster.com
		Wyoming's towering mountains and vast plains provide spectacular scenery, grazing lands for sheep and cattle, and rich mineral deposits.
		University of Wyoming - Wyoming, University of, at Laramie; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1886,...
		Wyoming, state, United States - Wyoming, one of the Rocky Mt. states of the W United States.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0108293.html (419 words)

	State of Wyoming - General Facts About Wyoming
		Ft. Laramie witnessed the growth of the open range cattle industry, the coming of homesteaders and the building of towns which marked the final closing of the wild, western frontier in 1890.
		Ft. Phil Kearny in northern Wyoming had the bloodiest history of any fort in the West.
		Wyoming Territorial Prison-The prison was built in 1872 to house federal convicts in newly formed Wyoming Territory.
	wyoming.gov /state/wyoming_news/general/history.asp (2207 words)

	Wyoming and the Chinese
		In 1850, future Wyoming was part of three territories, parts of which would soon become Nebraska Territory.
		The 1870 United States census records show that in southwest Wyoming, specifically Uinta and Sweetwater Counties, all the Chinese listed were employed as railroad laborers at either stations or at section camps.
		What is sometimes lost in discussing and describing the Chinese experience in Wyoming is that they contributed much to the development of the territory and later the state.
	www.wwcc.cc.wy.us /wyo_hist/ev.wyoming_and_the_chinese.htm (4420 words)

	RootsBooks: Wyoming Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1861 Dakota Territory was created which included all of the Dakotas, plus much of Montata and Wyoming (which part of Laramie County and later, Carter (Sweetwater) County).
		By the late 1860s the railroad had come through and communities started to grow along the rail line, and in 1868 Wyoming Territory was established.
		The northern part of the territory was still controlled by Native Americans, but after they were defeated cattle ranching became a major industry.
	www.readthemovie.com /rootsbooks/states/wyoming.html (209 words)

	THE COWBOY STATE
		Wyoming covers 97,819 square miles ranging from an elevation of 3,099 feet in the east along the Belle Fourche River to the 13,804 feet of Gannett Peak in the Wind River Range.
		Thomas Fitzpatrick and Jedediah S. Smith entered Wyoming from the East in 1824 and marked the route of the first part of the Oregon Trail from the State line to South Pass.
		John Fremont first saw the mountains of Wyoming in 1842 and announced that it seemed as if "Nature had collected all her beauties together in one chosen place".
	www.usroots.org /~genranch/wyoming/index.html (1372 words)

	Wyoming: History, Geography, Population, and State Facts — Infoplease.com
		History of moose management in Wyoming and recent trends in Jackson Hole.
		The economic benefits of snowmobiling to Wyoming residents: a travel cost approach with market segmentation.
		Wide, open spaces: Wyoming offers clean water, clean air and a very low-tax environment--plus access to some of the most beautiful......
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108293.html (516 words)

	Wyoming Republican Women
		The Wyoming Republican Women take pride in the fact that since statehood in 1890, Wyoming women have had the right to vote (the first in the nation) and have served on juries.
		Fully 20% of the payroll employment in Wyoming was engaged in government work.
		Not only is employment in the government sector increasing, Wyoming now has the highest per capita government expenditures of any state in the entire United States.
	www.wfrw.vcn.com (600 words)

	Lillian Goldman Library \| State Legislative Journals
		House Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wyoming.
		House Journal of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wyoming.
		House Journal of the Seventh Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wyoming.
	www.law.yale.edu /outside/scr/library/slj/state_re.asp?state=wyoming (203 words)

	Ghost Towns of Wyoming
		In what is now western Wyoming, an arc of volcanic islands was separated from one such micro-continent by a deep trench.
		It was designated by the Dakota Territorial Legislature as the county seat of Carter County, named after Judge Wm.
		Later, after the formation of Wyoming Territory, the county was renamed Sweetwater County.
	www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /photos9.html (1616 words)

	Wyoming Interstate Adventures - WyomingTourism.org
		The shortest of Wyoming’s Interstate Highways, I-90 cutting across the northeast corner of the state from Sundance to Sheridan, is also one of the most scenic routes.
		Interstate 80 stretching across the southern portion of the state between Pine Bluffs and Evanston parallels the Union Pacific Railroad, which gave birth to several communities and ultimately the Wyoming Territory as it pushed west in the late 1860s.
		Realize that although some RV parks are open year around, many in Wyoming are seasonal operations open from late spring through late fall.
	www.wyomingtourism.org /cms/index.php?id=495 (727 words)

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		They show the development and settlement of Wyoming and include the location of some early ranches and trails.
		Wyoming Territory Map, U.S. Department of Interior, 1879
		Wyoming, U.S. Department of Interior, 1916 [Enlarged Homestead Acts]
	wyoarchives.state.wy.us /mapphotos/maps.htm (189 words)

	History of Wyoming, with scanned images of antique maps and views.
		Topography: The surface is elevated and mountainous, the main chain of the Rocky mountains extending across the Territory from southeast to northwest and forming what is known as "the divide." The principal ranges are the Wind River, Big Horn, Laramie, Bishop and Medicine Bow mountains.
		The most interesting of the natural features of Wyoming, and those which have most attracted the attention of travellers, are found in the extreme northwest corner of the Territory, in the section known as the Yellowstone National Park.
		History: The Territory of Wyoming was organized, under the act approved July 25, 1868, from the southwest portion, of Dakota, together with small sections of Utah and Colorado.
	www.antiquemapsandprints.com /usa-WYOMING.htm (921 words)

	Wyoming 1800s Western Outlaw Festival - WyomingTourism.org
		The Wyoming Territory of frontier days was a place of sprawling ranches, disputes between cattle barons, sheepherders and sod busters; gold and silver mining and mine towns, cattle drives from Texas to Wyoming along the Texas Trail and not many law enforcement giving speeding tickets to fast moving wagon trains.
		The “Hole in-the Wall” also actually exists and was used as a difficult to reach and easy to defend refuge for persons seeking sanctuary from the law.
		The Outlaw Trail is also an actual series of locations in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.
	www.wyomingtourism.org /cms/index.php?id=513 (429 words)

	Wyoming Territory - Splash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1884 James Candlish of Rawlins, Wyoming built the first and original "Home on Wheels in his flsmith shop.
		Later in 1892, the Schulte Hardware Company of Casper built an improved model.
		Until 1950 when the Schulte Hardware Factory burned down, the basic design of the sheepwagon changed very little.
	www.wyomingsheepwagon.com (86 words)

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