* 1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U. S. state.

* 1906 – U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.

* 1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory ( now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming ) to federal control in return for the U. S. federal government assuming $ 10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

The U. S. states that do not levy a state income tax are Alaska, Tennessee, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington state, and Wyoming.

For example, at the start of the 2000 election cycle Dick Cheney was a resident of Texas ; Cheney quickly changed his residency back to Wyoming, where he had previously served as a U. S. Representative, when Texas governor and Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush asked Cheney to be his vice presidential candidate.

Some speakers therefore shorten the name " double u " into " dub " only ; for example, University of Washington, University of Wyoming and University of Western Australia are all known colloquially as " U Dub ", and the automobile company Volkswagen, abbreviated VW, is sometimes pronounced " V-Dub ".

** Barbara Cubin, U. S. Congresswoman from Wyoming

* July 10 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U. S. state.

* November 11 – U. S. government geologist Clarence King reveals the diamond hoax in Wyoming.

In February 1848 Polk surprised everyone with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U. S. vast new territories ( including California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico ).

A few rubies have been found in the U. S. states of Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Wyoming.

Sublette County is a county located in the U. S. state of Wyoming.

This area covers parts of the U. S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Wyoming County is a county located in the U. S. state of New York.

In New York's 2006 U. S. Senatorial election, Wyoming County voted for John Spencer by a 4 % margin over Hillary Clinton, with Clinton being reelected by a 36 % margin over Spencer.

* Henry H. Schwartz, Chief of the U. S. General Land Office and United States Senator from Wyoming

* Genesee and Wyoming Inc a railroad operating company based in Greenwich, Connecticut in the U. S.

The Spaniards gave the name " California " to the peninsula and to the lands north, including both Baja California and Alta California, the region that became parts of the present-day U. S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.

In the U. S., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and sizable parts of the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and western and southern Minnesota.

Johnson County is a county located in the north central part of the U. S. state of Wyoming.

Wyoming voted for the Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 U. S. Presidential Election, and Johnson county was one of the two counties in the state with the largest Bryan majorities.

* John Barrasso, Republican U. S. Senator from Wyoming

* Mike Sullivan, Governor of Wyoming from 1987 – 1995 ; former U. S. Ambassador to Ireland during the Clinton administration.

Most of U. S. Route 30 from Philadelphia to western Wyoming, portions of Interstate 80 in the western United States, most of U. S. Route 50 in Nevada and California, and most of old decommissioned U. S. Route 40 in California are alignments of the Lincoln Highway.

Even as he became widely known as a professional killer, nearly every cowboy and rancher in Wyoming seemed proud to call him a friend.

For three straight years, Tom Horn patrolled the southern Wyoming pastures, and how many men he killed after Lewis and Powell ( if he killed Lewis and Powell ) will never be known.

By 1898, rustling losses had been driven down to the lowest level ever seen in Wyoming.

I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

In sixteen states, the fiscal year ending of the cities ( June 30 ) is the same as that of the state: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii ).

His saloon was a meetin' place for influential Wyoming cattlemen, and one year durin' a severe blizzard, when his herd-owner customers were wearin' long faces, he said, `` Cheer up, boys, whatever happens, the books won't freeze ''.

The conservation leader said other mistakes in spraying had caused serious damage in Ohio and Wyoming.

* 1902 – James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

* 1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.

He organized shows at a resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Its area of 1, 284, 000 square kilometers is roughly equal to the combined areas of Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona.

To the east, in northern Wyoming and Montana, the Continental Divide separates the Columbia watershed from the Mississippi-Missouri watershed, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

To the southeast, in western Wyoming, another divide separates the Columbia watershed from the Colorado-Green watershed, which empties into the Gulf of California.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

The associated triple divide points are Commissary Ridge North, Wyoming, and Sproats Meadow Northwest, Oregon.

though in the classic traditional folk song, Dogie's Lament, also known as Git along little dogie, the " dogies " in question meant cattle strong enough to be herded from Texas to Wyoming, including weaners, yearling steers and other young, non-orphaned animals.

The addition of the adjacent Wyoming community of Cheyenne to the Colorado Front Range forms the full Front Range Urban Corridor.

Originally, it was a summer program for disadvantaged youth, although it has grown into an AmeriCorps-sponsored non-profit organization with six regional offices that serve Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota.

Only the states of Delaware, West Virginia, Vermont, Maine, North Dakota, and Wyoming do not have a single city with a population over 100, 000 as of the 2007 census estimates.

The film, titled Tabloid, features interviews with Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who was convicted in absentia for the kidnap and indecent assault of a Mormon missionary in England during 1977.

The notable exception to this was when land claims by the Connecticut-based owners of the Susquehanna Company, who had been granted titles to land claimed by Connecticut in the Wyoming Valley, in an area that is now Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

* 1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96, 000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.