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Sheridan, Wyoming Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Carbon Cemetery Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Cody, Wyoming Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Carbon County, Wyoming Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Penney, J. C. Encyclopedia 10/12/2011

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Encyclopedia | South Pass Gold Rush
Discovery of gold near South Pass in the 1860s led to the creation and settlement of short-lived South Pass City, Wyo. and other settlements nearby. The Carissa Mine was one of the richest, but...
Encyclopedia | Weston County, Wyoming
The final Wyoming Territorial Legislative Assembly created Weston County in March 1890. Thirty years later, the discovery of oil at Osage, Wyo., halfway between the county seat of Newcastle and the...
Encyclopedia | Big Piney and Marbleton, Wyoming
White settlement in Sublette County, Wyo. traces its roots to the late 1870s, when cattlemen brought herds to the pastures where North, Middle and Piney Creeks join the Green River. The town of Big...
Encyclopedia | Pinedale, Wyoming
Pinedale, Wyo. was founded in 1904, incorporated in 1912 and became seat of brand-new Sublette County in western Wyoming in 1921, when the town still boasted only about 100 people. Despite its...
Essay | Rock Springs, Wyoming
Rock Springs, Wyo. traces its origins to a coal mine established there in 1868 to serve the still-building Union Pacific Railroad. Ever since, the town has been enriched by the people who came from...
Encyclopedia | Newcastle, Wyoming
Newcastle, Wyo., on the edge of the Black Hills, was founded in 1889 when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad arrived in northeastern Wyoming. Newcastle sprang up where a spur left the main...
Encyclopedia | Upton, Wyoming
Upton, Wyo., known originally as Irontown or Iron City, and later as Merino, began in 1890 as a Burlington Railroad depot near a set of sheep corrals. The town was not incorporated until 1909. The...