Places that I visited:
Yellowstone
Devils Tower
The State of Wyoming is a sparsely populated state in the western region of the United States of
America. The majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountain West, while the easternmost section of the state is a high altitude prairie region known as the High Plains. While the ninth largest U.S. state by size, Wyoming is the least populous, with a U.S. Census estimated population of 522,830 in 2007, a 5.9% increase since 2000. The capital and the most populous city of Wyoming is Cheyenne.The region may have acquired the name Wyoming as early as 1865, when Representative J. M. Ashley of Ohio introduced a bill to Congress to p
rovide a "temporary government for the territory of Wyoming." The name Wyoming derives from the Munsee name xwĆ©:wamÉnk, meaning "at the big river flat," originally applied to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, made famous by the 1809 poem Gertrude of Wyoming by Thomas Campbell.After the Union Pacific Railroad reached the town of Cheyenne in 1867, the region's population began to grow steadily, and the Federal government established the Wyoming Territory on July 25, 1868. Unlike Colorado to the south, Wyoming enjoyed no significant discovery of such celebrated minerals as gold and silver ā nor Colorado's consequent boom in population ā although some areas of Wyoming produced copper.
Wyoming's constitution included women's suffrage and a pioneering article on water rights. The
United States admitted Wyoming into the Union as the 44th state on July 10, 1890.."Wyoming was the location of the Johnson County War of 1892, which erupted between competing groups of cattle ranchers. The passage of the federal Homestead Act led to an influx of small ranchers. A range war broke out when either or both of the groups chose violent conflict over commercial competition in the use of the public land.
Several Native American groups originally inhabited the region we know as Wyoming. The Crow, Arapaho, Lakota, and Shoshone were but a few of the original inhabitants encountered when white explorers first entered the region. Although French trappers may have ventured
into the northern sections of the state in the late 1700s, John Colter, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, first described the region in 1807. His reports of the Yellowstone area were considered at the time to be fictional. Robert Stuart and a party of five men returning from Astoria discovered South Pass in 1812. The Oregon Trail later followed that route. In 1850, Jim Bridger located what is now known as Bridger Pass, which the Union Pacific Railroad used in 1868 ā as did Interstate 80, ninety years later. Bridger also explored Yellowstone and filed reports on the region that, like those of Colter, were largely regarded as tall tales at the time.Parks
ā¢ Yellowstone National Park
ā¢ Grand Teton National Park
Recreation areas
ā¢ Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
ā¢ Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area
National monuments
ā¢ Devils Tower National Monument
ā¢ Fossil Butte National Monument
National historic trails and sites
ā¢ California National Historic Trail
ā¢ Fort Laramie National Historic Site
ā¢ Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
ā¢ Oregon National Historic Trail
ā¢ Pony Express National Historic Trail
National parkways
ā¢ John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway between Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park
Wildlife refuges and hatcheries
ā¢ Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge
ā¢ National Elk Refuge
ā¢ Jackson National Fish Hatchery
ā¢ Saratoga National Fish Hatchery
Wyoming political map:
Wyoming location map:
August 2008
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