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Here in Wyoming in an area of almost 100,000 square mile, a proud and enterprising people have labored mightily to come up with adequate responses to a host of tough challenges. In 1965, as they pause to contemplate seventy-five years of statehood, may this volume be a help and a stimulus to their reflections.

"Mecheweam-ing--two Delware Indian words unite to form the name Wyoming which was first given to Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. The Indians chipped and contracted this term which in their language meant "at the big flats."" So begins this interesting history of Wyoming.

Wanted: Enterprising Young Men. So begins this fascinating history of Wyoming.

For centuries Wyoming was a land no one wanted-high, dry and remote-more often a thouroughfare on the way to some place else than a final desination. Many of the sweeping developments that overtook the rest of the nation simply passed it by, leaving Wyoming to sit in lonely granduer behind its granite walls and silent snows.The problem, explains T.A. Larson in this history,was people-and how to get them there.

The American West is identified with adventure, daring, courage and reward. The glamour of its mountainsand deserts and the fortitude of the men who faced its rawness are a part of our heritage. The West has given rise to a large body of literature, from the reports of the first explorers to the reevaluations of the present historians. Outstanding in this literature is the history of Wyoming written by Charles G. Coutant. Wyoming is the crossroads...

Includes the stories of these women felons imprisoned at the Wyoming state penitentiaries from 1880-1908: Nettie Stewart-Wright, Jennie Berry, Florence W. Hughes, Mary Wrisinger, Belle Jones, Florence Gaines, Stella F. Gatlin, Caroline Winfield, Minnie Snyder, Annie Curley Johnson, Caroline Hayes, Eliza Stewart, Lillie Todd, Pearl Smith, Gertie Miller, Emma L. Nash, Viola Biggs, Anna E. Trout, Hattie LaPierre, Dolly Brady, Gerty Brown, Annie Groves,...

Vol. 1 carries the history to the year 1869. No more volumes were published. Note: Later reprint ed. has title: History of Wyoming and the Far West, and some online sources mistakenly list this as "vol. 2"