· Wyoming was the first state in the US to offer suffrage to women. Why? They needed the women’s votes to get enough votes to become a state. Wyoming also had the first woman governor in the US, Nellie Ross in 1925 and the first female court bailiff and the first woman justice of the peace.

· Black Thunder is a Wyoming coal mine and the largest in the US. It is located very close to Wright, Wyoming.

· If you study Wyoming’s flag, you will see the buffalo has a seal on it. Why? The seal actually represents a brand, which is a custom of identifying livestock.

· The state sport of Wyoming is the Rodeo. The state dinosaur is a Triceratops and the state coin is the Golden Dollar.

· Wyoming is also known as the Cowboy State and Big Wonderful Wyoming.

· In 1892, the Johnson County War, a skirmish between free roaming agents and cattlemen took place.

· In 2003, wolves killed only 15 sheep in Wyoming. Eagles killed 150. Still, the wolf is known for being hostile toward ranchers and is hunted yearly.

· Water that flows through the Continental Divide and into Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin doesn’t flow into an ocean or any large body of water. It soaks into the ground or is evaporated by the sun because the state is so arid.

by Mary M. Alward