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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.
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Wanted: Enterprising Young Men. So begins this fascinating history of Wyoming.
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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.
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The lynching of Ellen Watson and Jim Averell by six prominent and politically powerful Wyoming cattlemen rocked the nation in July 1889. Newspapers immediately proclaimed that Ellen Watson (erroneously called Cattle Kate) and Jim Averell were rustlers, that Watson was a prostitute and Averell was a pimp. After over twenty years of research, George Hufsmith has challenged those assumptions with documented historic accounts and with newly-unearthed...
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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,...
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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...
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Wyoming is so closely identified with ranching that it is often known as �the Cowboy State.� The prosperity associated with the cattle industry drew wealthy investors to Wyoming Territory in the 1870s and early 1880s. They stocked the range with thousands of cows and made considerable fortunes until the harsh winter of 1886�1887, when the cattle market collapsed. Many of those early ranchers left Wyoming, which opened the door for the establishment...
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Packed with information and copiously illustrated, Wyoming's Wealth should appeal to all ages. Here are the Indians, the cowboys, the traders, the trappers--all dealt with in lively but accurate fashion. Young readers and adult history buffs alike will find here fascinating and little-known facts about Wyoming's colorful past.
