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100 unusual facts about Wyoming


11th Ohio Cavalry

The battalion located its headquarters at Pacific Springs, Nebraska Territory, assigned to protect travelers and interests along the North Platte and Sweetwater Rivers, and then at South Pass, Idaho Territory, to guard the Overland Mail routes from Julesburg, Colorado to Green River, Wyoming.

Alex Cord

Ben Sanford is one of the original settlers of the Laramie area and is called a "Mountain Man."

Andrew John Yellowbear Jr.

He was convicted in April 2006 in Thermopolis, Wyoming, of premeditated first-degree murder in the death of his 22-month-old daughter Marcela Hope Yellowbear.

Asa Shinn Mercer

Mercer became well known throughout the West as a publisher, and eventually found his way to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he published the Northwestern Livestock Journal, a public relations vehicle for the moneyed cattle interests.

Astor Expedition

The party traveled west with relative ease through South Dakota and Wyoming, and accumulated 6,000 pounds of dried buffalo meat northwest of present-day Pinedale.

Aviat Husky

The Aviat Husky is a two seat, high wing, utility light aircraft built by Aviat Aircraft of Afton, Wyoming.

Bill Stall

He and his two siblings moved with his parents in 1942 to Big Horn, Wyoming to operate a small ranch.

Boeing Model 203

When the Boeing School was closed due to the Second World War, the 4 203As were transferred to United Air Lines at Cheyenne, Wyoming, two 203Bs were sold to a private owner, and the fate of the final 203B is unknown.

Broken Trail

After passing through Cody, Wyoming, Prent decides to head north through the Big Horn Mountains and over a steep pass known as the Whale's Back in order to avoid Ed and his gang.

Casper–Natrona County International Airport

Before that the airport was located in what is now the town of Bar Nunn and what are now the streets were the runways at the airport.

Casper, WY Metropolitan Statistical Area

See also: U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Casper, Wyoming, Natrona County, Wyoming, the Metropolitan Areas of Wyoming, and the Laramie Mountain Range.

Cherokee Trail

There the trail turned west near present day Tie Siding, and proceeded along the Colorado/Wyoming border to Green River and to Fort Bridger where it struck the other emigrant trails.

Colorado Piedmont

The drop off from the Plains to the Piedmont is noticeable to motorists driving southward from Cheyenne, Wyoming on Interstate 25.

Community ownership

Powell, Wyoming also has a community store established in 2002 under similar circumstances.

Commuter town

For example, the resort town of Jackson has spawned several nearby bedroom communities, including Victor, Idaho; Driggs, Idaho; and Alpine, Wyoming, where the majority of the Jackson workforce resides.

Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim

In 2013, Rabbi Harley Karz-Wagman became the twenty-fifth rabbi of the Temple after leaving Mt. Sinai Synagogue in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Dave Whitlock

Dave Whitlock (born July 2, 1966 in Wyoming, Ontario, Canada) was a Canadian race car driver in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series.

David Love

Love played a key role in the start of the uranium-mining industry in Wyoming by discovering uranium in 1951 near Pumpkin Buttes, about 25 miles northeast of Midwest, Wyoming.

Dean T. Prosser

He attended the first six grades at the former Pumpkin Vine School in Tie Siding located north of the Colorado border.

Don G. Despain

Despain was born in 1940 in Lovell, Wyoming, the oldest of five children to Daniel Gordon Despain and Lillian Gardner.

EBF Bridge over Powder River

The EBF Bridge over Powder River is a bridge located near Leiter, Wyoming, which carries Sheridan County Road CN3-269 over the Powder River.

Eden point

They were first discovered in situ at an ancient buffalo kill site near Eden, Wyoming by Harold J. Cook in 1941.

Edward Bryant

He had strong roots in that state attested to in his collection Wyoming Sun. He attended school in Wheatland, Wyoming and received his MA in English from the University of Wyoming in 1968.

Edwin H. Whitehead

Edwin H. "Ed" Whitehead (February 26, 1925 - May 20, 2007) was a lawyer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and an early supporter of John F. Kennedy for the American presidency in a state which three times supported Richard M. Nixon.

ELY Wind River Diversion Dam Bridge

The ELY Wind River Diversion Dam Bridge is a Warren pony truss bridge located near Morton, Wyoming, which carries Fremont County Road CN10-24 across the Wind River.

Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing in the United States

In 2006 drilling fluids and methane were detected leaking from the ground near a gas well in Clark, Wyoming; 8 million cubic feet of methane were eventually released, and shallow groundwater was found to be contaminated.

Farthing

Farthing, Wyoming (also known as Iron Mountain), a railroad station and post office in Wyoming

Fort Bernard

Fort Bernard was a small trading post in Wyoming, along the North Platte River on the Oregon Trail.

Fort Laramie National Historic Site

The river was named “Laramie” in his honor, and the name would later be given to the Laramie Mountains, the fort, and the towns of Laramie, Wyoming and Fort Laramie, Wyoming.

Frank O. Horton

During the Spanish-American War he served as a private in Company C, Fiftieth Iowa Regiment in 1898; he moved to Saddlestring, Wyoming in 1905 and engaged in livestock raising.

Free State Wyoming

The FSW has chosen to focus initially on the Wyoming counties of Crook (primarily), Weston and Hot Springs.

Galen Giaccone

Galen Giaccone, (born May 5, 1988) is an American beauty queen from Wyoming, Delaware who was crowned Miss Delaware 2008 and competed for the title of Miss America 2009 which was ultimately won by Katie Stam of Indiana.

Hillclimbing in the United States

On August 15, 1965, Phillip Lyman, of Ten Sleep, Wyoming, won the fifth annual TenSleep Canyon hillclimb, driving a Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray, in a time of 4:48.1 sec.

Hoback River

It rises in the southern Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and flows northeast through the Teton National Forest, before turning northwest to join the Snake just downstream of Jackson Hole, near the head of the Snake River Canyon and near the town of Hoback.

Horseheads, New York

Under orders the forces of General John Sullivan, burdened down with heavy military equipment, marched north in their 450-mile journey through a wooden wilderness from Easton, Pennsylvania over to Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and on up the Susquehanna River Trail to Newtown (Elmira).

Huron, Indiana

Once in St. Louis, The Challenger returned to the Cheyenne, Wyoming locomotive shops.

I Can Still Make Cheyenne

The man replies that as much as this pains him, he will go on to Cheyenne, the most prestigious rodeo around.

Interior Radar Bomb Scoring Site

At the end of the Cold War, numerous nearby radar sites for RBS and electronic warfare simulation included those at the Alzada (2 sites), Ekalaka, & Hulett Mini-Mutes Radar Sites, the Clark & Colony Radar Bomb Scoring Sites, and the "Ellsworth Air Force Base" sites (Belle Fourche, Colmer, & Horman Radar Bomb Scoring Sites and the Antelope Butte Mini Mute Radar Bomb Scoring Site).

Intermountain Manufacturing Company

The Intermountain Manufacturing Company (IMCO) was a US aircraft manufacturer of the 1960s based in Afton, Wyoming that produced agricultural aircraft.

John Bell Hatcher

In 1889 near Lusk, Wyoming Hatcher excavated the first fossil remains of Torosaurus.

Julius Wagner

He was killed in an automobile accident on August 30, 1960 in Pinedale, Wyoming.

KBEO

KBEO was a full-power television station serving Jackson, Wyoming.

KCWY-DT

Licensed to Casper, it station also airs its programing on six low-powered satellites: KSWY-LP channel 29 in Sheridan, KCHY-LP channel 13 in Cheyenne, K14LK channel 14 in Laramie and K28HL-D channel 28 in Riverton.

KDEB

KRBR (FM), a radio station (88.9 FM) licensed to serve La Barge, Wyoming, United States, which held the call sign KDEB from 2010 to 2012

KEMM

KEMM (FM), a defunct radio station (91.1 FM) formerly licensed to serve Opal, Wyoming, United States, whose license was cancelled November 16, 2012

KPAH

KPAH-LP, a low-power television station (channel 24) licensed to Laramie, Wyoming, United States

Larry Lehman

He served as a judge in Uinta County, Wyoming, from 1985 to 1988, and as a state district judge for Albany and Carbon counties.

Lauren Jones

Jones was raised in Jackson, Wyoming, the only child of Deborah Martinson Parsons and James Harrison Jones Junior, and the granddaughter of "Ageless Hero" Gloria Martinson, founder of the non-profit organization, Gleaners, and Mike Martinson, Founder and CEO of the Dobbs Maynard Advertising Agency, who was often referred to as "The King Maker" due to his strong political influence and clout.

Lil' Miss murder

Entering the DNA profile into law enforcement's CODIS database got a hit showing that it belonged to Dale Wayne Eaton, 57, of Moneta, Wyoming, who, at the time, was incarcerated in Englewood federal prison at Littleton, Colorado, on an unrelated weapons charge.

Linda Finch

The Lockheed Electra 10E, S/N 1015, N72GT used in the historic flight, as of early 2008, is registered in Cody, Wyoming, and hangared in New Mexico.

Merrill Bradshaw

Merrill Bradshaw (18 June 1929 in Lyman, Wyoming – 12 July 2000 in St. George, Utah) was an American composer and professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) where he was the John R. Halliday Professor of music.

Bradshaw was born in Lyman, Wyoming to Melvin K. Bradshaw and his wife the former Lorene Hamblin.

Mycena overholtsii

The species was first described by mycologists Alexander H. Smith and Wilhelm Solheim in 1953, on the basis of specimens collected in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Albany County, Wyoming.

Nate Champion

In April 1892 the WSGA hired killers from Texas; an expedition of 50 men was organized, which proceeded by train from Cheyenne to Casper, Wyoming, then toward Johnson County, intending to eliminate alleged rustlers and also, apparently, to replace the government in Johnson County.

Neltje Doubleday Kings

In 2001 she created the private Jentel Foundation to support artists' residencies on her property in Banner, Wyoming.

Neltje Doubleday left New York and moved to Banner, Wyoming, where in 1966 she bought a 440-acre ranch on Lower Piney Creek.

New Fork River

At Boulder it receives Boulder Creek and turns south again.

North Platte Project

Near Fort Laramie the Whalen Diversion Dam diverts water into Fort Laramie Canal and Interstate Canal which distribute water to farms in Wyoming and Nebraska.

Northwest College

Northwest College is a public two-year residential college located in Powell, Wyoming, 70 miles from Yellowstone National Park.

Orson Lowell

Born in Wyoming, Iowa, Lowell was the son of landscapist Milton H. Lowell.

Overland Trail

Following the same path as the later transcontinental railroad and modern Interstate 80, the trail crosses the Red Desert and follows Bitter Creek through the present towns of Rock Springs, Point of Rocks, and Green River.

Remains of stage stops are scattered throughout Wyoming and northern Colorado including well preserved buildings at Virginia Dale, Colorado and Point of Rocks, Wyoming.

Owen Wister Review

The journal was established in 1978 and named for Owen Wister, who set the first modern western novel, The Virginian, not far from Laramie in the town of Medicine Bow.

Pack goat

Goat packing was popularized in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s by John Mionczynski of Atlantic City, Wyoming.

Peter Whitney

Beyer accidentally kills his wife in a fit of rage and runs into Laramie, Wyoming, to escape the wrath of her pursuing brother.

Red Angus

In 1954 the Red Angus Association of America was founded, based in Sheridan, Wyoming.

Richard S. Prather

He donated his papers to the Richard S. Prather Manuscript Collection at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie, Wyoming.

Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Righteous Branch was organized on April 6, 1978, by Gerald Wilbur Peterson, Sr. (born October 8, 1917 in Lusk, Wyoming, died January 1981).

Route of the Oregon Trail

Those traveling south of the Platte crossed the South Platte River with its muddy and treacherous crossings using one of about three ferries (in dry years it could sometimes be forded without a ferry) before continuing up the North Platte River valley to Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming.

The Lander Road departs the main trail at Burnt Ranch near South Pass, crosses the Continental Divide north of South Pass and reaches the Green River near the present town of Big Piney, Wyoming.

From there the Sublette-Greenwood Cutoff trail had to cross a mountain range to connect with the main trail near Cokeville, Wyoming in the Bear River valley.

Ryan Park

Ryan Park, Wyoming, an unincorporated place in Carbon County, Wyoming, USA

Salix serissima

These include four in the Black Hills of South Dakota (two on the Black Hills National Forest); one in the Sherman Mountains of Albany County, Wyoming (on the Medicine Bow National Forest); seven in north-central Colorado (one on the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest); and one in southwestern Colorado (potentially on the San Juan National Forest).

Saniwa

In 1870, American geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden found the first fossils of Saniwa near the town of Granger, Wyoming, and gave them to paleontologist Joseph Leidy.

Sergeant Carl F. Curran II Bridge

The 1885 bridge was demolished at just after 10:00 on June 4, 2007 by Demtech of Dubois, Wyoming.

Sheep Wars

In 1887, nearly 2,600 heads belonging to Charles Herbert perished when some cowboys burned down his corrals at Tie Siding, Wyoming.

Sinclair Oil Corporation

Sinclair Oil Company also owns and operates Grand America Hotels and Resorts, which has hotel properties in Salt Lake City, Utah; Flagstaff, Arizona; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Little America, Wyoming; and San Diego, California, in addition to the Sun Valley and Snowbasin resorts.

Sir Barton

As a sire, Sir Barton enjoyed only moderate success and spent the better part of the rest of his life as a working horse with the U.S. Army Remount Service in Fort Robinson, Nebraska until being sold to rancher J.R. Hylton in Douglas, Wyoming.

Sound of the Rockies

After winning an 8th consecutive district championship in Cheyenne, Wyoming in October 2009, the chorus qualified for the 2010 International chorus contest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Spring Creek Raid

In the days that followed, Brink and Dixon bragged about committing the murders until one of their friends, William "Billy" Goodrich, informed Sheriff Felix Alston in Basin.

Star Valley Wyoming Temple

The temple will be located east of U.S. highway 89 south of Afton, Wyoming.

Sunrise, Wyoming

In 1890, Charles A. Guernsey, after whom the nearby town of Guernsey, Wyoming is named, founded the Wyoming Railway and Iron Company to exploit iron mining in the area.

Sydney Paget

Paget ran a ranch at Big Horn, Wyoming for William Whitney where he raised Thoroughbreds on the open range.

Texas Trail Museum

Open from Memorial Day through Labor day, Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Museum is located on the corner of 3rd and Market Streets in downtown Pine Bluffs, Wyoming.

The Cheyenne Social Club

O'Hanlan gets a letter from an attorney in Cheyenne, Wyoming, that his disreputable and now deceased brother, DJ, left him something called The Cheyenne Social Club in his will.

The Daily Coyote

It chronicles the story of a young woman who moves to Wyoming after living in New York and her adjustment to the same.

Thomas C. Molesworth

Molesworth's company and career received a major boost in 1933 when he was commissioned by publisher Moses Annenberg to design the interior furnishings for Annenberg's Ranch A retreat near Beulah, Wyoming.

Tongue River Cave

Tongue River Cave is a cave in the Bighorn National Forest just west of Dayton, Wyoming.

United States Grazing Service

The late Wyoming State Representative George R. Salisbury, Jr., of Carbon County worked for the Grazing Service prior to World War II.

United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming, 2008

Other Republicans running include conservative former state Treasurer Cynthia Lummis, state Rep. Dan Zwonitzer, businessman and rancher Mark Gordon of Buffalo, and retired naval captain and 2006 candidate Bill Winney who had garnered 40 percent of the vote against Cubin in the 2006 primary.

United States v. Solon

United States v. Nathaniel Solon was a lawsuit where Nathaniel Solon, a Casper citizen, was convicted for possession of child pornography.

USS Cheyenne

Six ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Cheyenne, in honor of the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

V. Larry Teaver, Jr.

He was married for sixty-two years to the former Suzanne "Sue" Yerby (1922–2004), a native of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Wamsutter, Wyoming

Confusion with nearby Fort Washakie prompted an 1884 name change to Wamsutter, after a Union Pacific bridge engineer.

William Goodsir-Cullen

William "Willie" James Goodsir-Cullen (29 March 1907 in Firozepur – 15 June 1994 in Wyoming, New South Wales, Australia) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Wyoming Army National Guard

When Wyoming became a state in 1890, constitutional provisions allowed for the formation of units in Buffalo, Evanston, Douglas, Green River, Rock Springs, Rawlins and Sheridan.

Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls

The nickname Cowboys was used as early as 1891 when a true cowboy assisted the Wyoming football team against a team from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Wyoming Mercantile

Wyoming Mercantile, also known as the Aladdin General Store is a preserved small-town general store in Aladdin, Wyoming.

Wyoming, New South Wales

The grave was designed by architect John Verge and was recently restored after falling into disrepair.

Hely named the land after the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, made famous by the 1809 poem Gertrude of Wyoming by Thomas Campbell.


Alfred Trower

Trower then transferred to London Rowing Club and in August 1876 Trower, together with Gulston, R H Labat, and J Rowell went to Philadelphia on the steam ship Wyoming to take part in the town's centennial regatta.

Battle of Shimonoseki Straits

The USS Wyoming under Captain David McDougal sailed into the strait and single-handedly engaged the US-built but poorly manned Japanese fleet.

Bonnie McCarroll

In 1922, she won two cowgirl bronc riding championships at both Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the first rodeo hosted at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Bryant Butler Brooks

His official portrait was painted by artist Michele Rushworth and hangs in the state capitol in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Callophrys sheridanii

In 2009, this species was adopted as the U.S. state butterfly for Wyoming.

CASA 2.111

The aircraft was attempting a landing at the Cheyenne Municipal Airport, near Cheyenne, Wyoming, while en route from Midland, Texas to an air show in Missoula, Montana.

Chugwater, Wyoming

Clayton Danks, the model of the Wyoming Bucking Horse and Rider state symbol, worked on the 2-Bar Ranch near Chugwater early in the 20th century.

Cornelius Donahue

Doug Engebretson in his book "Empty saddles, forgotten names: Outlaws of the Black Hills and Wyoming" has the following to say on the demise of Johnny.

Dale Groutage

Dale Groutage (born 1944) is an engineer who ran in 2006 as the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Wyoming against incumbent Senator Craig Thomas.

Estella Leopold

By studying the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming, Leopold helped recreate the paleoenvironment of the Paleogene and Neogene periods.

Esterbrook, Wyoming

In 1946 the Esterbrook Community Church (one of 29 mission churches in the Episcopal Missionary District of Wyoming) was built with a window behind the altar with a view to Laramie Peak.

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

From 1978 to 1981 it was held at different locations, and from 1982 it has been held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Fine Just the Way It Is

A childless Wyoming couple transfer their affections first to a piglet, then to a chicken, and finally to a sagebrush they fancy to have the appearance of a child.

Harriet Elizabeth Byrd

Byrd graduated with a bachelor's degree in education from West Virginia State College, a historically black college in Institute, West Virginia in 1949, and returned to Wyoming in order to apply for a teaching job with the Laramie County School District, but was denied employment because of her race.

Howard Stansbury

Rather than follow the standard Oregon Trail route from Fort Bridger over South Pass through the Sweetwater River valley, Stansbury wanted to scout a more direct route east.

KCSP

KCSP-FM, a radio station (90.3 FM) licensed to Casper, Wyoming, United States

Kepler Cascades

The cascades were named by Philetus Norris, park superintendent in 1881 for the 12 year old son of Wyoming's territorial governor John Wesley Hoyt.

KMGW

KRNK, a radio station in Casper, Wyoming, United States known as KMGW from 2001 to 2009

Linda St. Clair

Collectors include Walt Disney Corporation President Michael Mendenhall, Bill Marriot of Marriot Hotels and Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming.

Little Bighorn

Little Bighorn River, (previously called Little Big Horn River) a tributary of the Bighorn River in Wyoming and Montana

Max Maxfield

He was also a board member of the Wyoming Congressional Youth Awards, Special Olympics, Wyoming Children’s Society, and the High Desert Riders.

Mel Hamilton

Hamilton and his associates have also been praised by Darius Gray, an African-American Latter-day Saint who went to Wyoming to try to defuse the situation in 1969, for taking a non-violent route in voicing their concerns.

New York State Route 238

Outside of Attica Center, NY 238 winds its way northward toward the village of Attica, passing the eastern edge of the Attica and Wyoming Correctional Facilities—more prominently the work farm operated by the facilities.

Newport International University

The Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the law in a June 2008 ruling, and in April 2009 NIU relinquished its Wyoming registration and announced plans to merge with Newport University in California.

P. microphyllus

Philadelphus microphyllus, the littleleaf mock-orange, a plant species native to northern Mexico and the southwestern quadrant of the United States as far north as Wyoming

Rock Springs Uplift

The Rock Springs Uplift is an area of uplifted Cretaceous to Eocene rocks in Wyoming surrounded and once covered by sediments of the Green River Formation which were deposited in the Eocene Lake Gosiute.

Scouting in Wyoming

While detained in the camp, Mineta, a Boy Scout, met fellow Scout Alan K. Simpson, future U.S. Senator from Wyoming, who often visited the Scouts in the internment camp with his troop.

Smiles for Diversity

After the attack on a Jewish day-care center in California and the murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, Dan Fischer set up The Diversity Foundation to encourage dentists to promote respect for human diversity.

Sublette County, Wyoming

In 1965, Berton Roueché described his wonderful trip along the Green River that set out from the Circle S Ranch in Cora, Wyoming in Subletter County with the ranch's foreman Thomas Scholebo.

The Lawless Nineties

The Lawless Nineties is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Wayne and Lane Chandler as federal agents in Wyoming.

The Redhead from Wyoming

The Redhead from Wyoming is a 1953 American Western drama film produced by Leonard Goldstein and directed by Lee Sholem.

Thermopolis, Wyoming

Barton R. Voigt — current Chief Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court

UNIFAT

Schools involved Include Eastern High School (New Jersey), Moeller High School, Mount Notre Dame High School, Purcell Marian High School, Sycamore High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), and Madeira High School, Anderson High School, Taylor High School, Wyoming High School, and others from the Greater Cincinnati Area.

United States House of Representatives elections in Wyoming, 2014

The 2014 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to elect the U.S. Representative from Wyoming's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of Wyoming in the 114th United States Congress.

Uranium mining in Wyoming

The uranium will be absorbed onto ion-exchange resin beads at the mine; the beads will be shipped to existing facilities of Power Resources Inc. (Cameco) in Wyoming and Nebraska for recovery of the uranium.

Wamsutter, Wyoming

The town, which bills itself as "The Gateway to the Red Desert" is located along Interstate 80 between Rawlins and Rock Springs, on the easternmost border of Sweetwater County.

William F. Downes

His official portrait was painted by artist Michele Rushworth and hangs in the federal courthouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Wolf-Dieter Storl

After returning to the United States in 1984, he spent much time with traditional medicine persons of the Cheyenne and taught courses at Sheridan College, Wyoming.