During the winter of 1807–1808 John Colter, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ascended the canyon into the Sunlight Basin of modern-day Wyoming. He was the first known man of European descent to have ever entered the region.
The very first American Western saloon was created in Brown's Hole, Wyoming, in 1822 and served fur trappers. Some of the saloons offered dancing girls, some of them sometimes doubled as prostitutes.
Fort Laramie was founded was founded by William Sublette as Fort William in 1834. It was located at the confluence of the Laramie and the North Platte rivers in what is now the eastern part of Wyoming. The fort was founded as a private trading post to service the overland fur trade. It became a significant trading post, diplomatic site and a popular stopping point for migrants on the Oregon Trail.
Southwestern Wyoming was claimed by the Spanish Empire and then Mexican territory until it was ceded to the United States in 1848 at the end of the Mexican–American War. The region acquired the name Wyoming when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress in 1865 to provide a "temporary government for the territory of Wyoming".
The name is derived from the Munsee word xwé:wamənk, meaning "at the big river flat".
In December 1869, the governor of the Wyoming Territory signed legislation giving women the right to vote in addition to the ability to hold office and be on juries. The following year Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming became the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
Wyoming was admitted as the 44th U.S. state in 1890. When the territory of Wyoming applied to join the US, congress told them they'd have to stop letting women vote. Their response was "We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women”. In 1890 they joined as the first and only state to allow women to vote.
James Cash Penney opened his first store, called "The Golden Rule," in Kemmerer, Wyoming on 1902. Twenty seven years later Penney opened store number 1252 in Milford, Delaware, making J. C. Penney a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. States.
Construction ended in 1910 on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 feet.
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming was elected the first female governor in the United States on November 4, 1924, when she succeeded her late husband William B. Ross.
President Calvin Coolidge signed an Executive Order in 1929 establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
The western two-thirds of Wyoming is covered mostly by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie called the High Plains.
Wyoming has the smallest population of all the U.S. states, with a state population estimated at 577,737 in 2018.
There are 31 different American cities with a larger population than the state of Wyoming including Denver in neighboring Colorado.
Cheyenne is the state capital and the most populous city, with an estimated population of 63,624 in 2017.
In Wyoming, 91% of the land is rural. Agriculture is an important part of the state economy; the main things grown in Wyoming are livestock (beef), grain (wheat and barley), hay, sugar beets and wool.
A spring in Wyoming named Intermittent Spring flows for 18 minutes, then abruptly stops flowing for another 18 minutes.
Wyoming's Devils Tower has no apostrophe in its name. It was accidentally left off when Teddy Roosevelt signed the document making it a National Landmark and has never been fixed.
In the entire state of Wyoming, there are only two escalators. Technically there are four escalators if you factor that each has a seperate up and a down.
The very first American Western saloon was created in Brown's Hole, Wyoming, in 1822 and served fur trappers. Some of the saloons offered dancing girls, some of them sometimes doubled as prostitutes.
Fort Laramie was founded was founded by William Sublette as Fort William in 1834. It was located at the confluence of the Laramie and the North Platte rivers in what is now the eastern part of Wyoming. The fort was founded as a private trading post to service the overland fur trade. It became a significant trading post, diplomatic site and a popular stopping point for migrants on the Oregon Trail.
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| Fort William, as it looked prior to 1840. Painting from memory by Alfred Jacob Miller |
Southwestern Wyoming was claimed by the Spanish Empire and then Mexican territory until it was ceded to the United States in 1848 at the end of the Mexican–American War. The region acquired the name Wyoming when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress in 1865 to provide a "temporary government for the territory of Wyoming".
The name is derived from the Munsee word xwé:wamənk, meaning "at the big river flat".
In December 1869, the governor of the Wyoming Territory signed legislation giving women the right to vote in addition to the ability to hold office and be on juries. The following year Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming became the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
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| Wyoming, 1883 |
Wyoming was admitted as the 44th U.S. state in 1890. When the territory of Wyoming applied to join the US, congress told them they'd have to stop letting women vote. Their response was "We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women”. In 1890 they joined as the first and only state to allow women to vote.
James Cash Penney opened his first store, called "The Golden Rule," in Kemmerer, Wyoming on 1902. Twenty seven years later Penney opened store number 1252 in Milford, Delaware, making J. C. Penney a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. States.
Construction ended in 1910 on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 feet.
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming was elected the first female governor in the United States on November 4, 1924, when she succeeded her late husband William B. Ross.
President Calvin Coolidge signed an Executive Order in 1929 establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
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| The John Moulton Barn on Mormon Row at the base of the Grand Tetons, Wyoming. |
The western two-thirds of Wyoming is covered mostly by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie called the High Plains.
Wyoming has the smallest population of all the U.S. states, with a state population estimated at 577,737 in 2018.
There are 31 different American cities with a larger population than the state of Wyoming including Denver in neighboring Colorado.
Cheyenne is the state capital and the most populous city, with an estimated population of 63,624 in 2017.
In Wyoming, 91% of the land is rural. Agriculture is an important part of the state economy; the main things grown in Wyoming are livestock (beef), grain (wheat and barley), hay, sugar beets and wool.
A spring in Wyoming named Intermittent Spring flows for 18 minutes, then abruptly stops flowing for another 18 minutes.
Wyoming's Devils Tower has no apostrophe in its name. It was accidentally left off when Teddy Roosevelt signed the document making it a National Landmark and has never been fixed.
In the entire state of Wyoming, there are only two escalators. Technically there are four escalators if you factor that each has a seperate up and a down.
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