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State of Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. Also the 10th most extensive, but the least populous. At the same time the 2nd least densely populated ofthe fifty states.
The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of thestate is high elevation prairie known as the High Plains.

History

• Several American Indian groups originally inhabited the region now known as Wyoming. The Crow, Arapaho, Lakota,and Shoshone were but a few of the original inhabitants encountered when white explorers first entered the region.
• What is now southwestern Wyoming became a part of the Spanish Empire and later Mexicanterritory of Alta California, until it was ceded to the United States in 1848 at the end of the Mexican-American War.
• The name Wyoming derives from the Munsee name xwé:wamənk, meaning "at the bigriver flat" .
• After the Union Pacific Railroad had reached the town of Cheyenne in 1867, the region's population began to grow steadily, and the federal government established the WyomingTerritory on July 25, 1868.
• Once government sponsored expeditions to the Yellowstone country were undertaken, the previous reports by men like Colter and Bridger were found to be true. This led tothe creation of Yellowstone National Park, which became the world's first national park in 1872.
• On December 10, 1869, territorial Gov. John Allen Campbell signed a suffrage act into law, whichextended the right to vote to women. It became the first state in the Union to elect a female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross.
• The United States admitted Wyoming into the Union as the 44th stateon July 10, 1890.
• Wyoming was the location of the Johnson County War of 1892, that was a battle between small settling ranchers and larger established ranchers in the Powder River Country....