20 Interesting facts about Wyoming
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Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote.
Way to go Wyoming. Women's suffrage was included in their state constitution.
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but why
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Wyoming was the first state to have an all female jury.
Again, this happened in the 1870s.
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Wyoming was the first state to have a female justice of the peace.
Esther Hobart Morris was appointed in 1870. No wonder this state is known as the Equality State!
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The first female governor was in Wyoming.
The year was 1925 and lady was Nellie Tayloe Ross.
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Wyoming had the first county library.
The library was in the town of Laramie and opened in the 1880s.
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Thermopolis, Wyoming is home to the world's largest mineral hot springs.
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Wyoming's Shoshone National Forest was the first national forest in the country.
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The largest coal mine, Black Thunder, in the United States is Wyoming.
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The movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was filmed on location at Devil's Tower.
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The oldest county library system in the country is the Laramie County Library System.
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11.
Yellowstone has more geysers than any other geyser field in the world.
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Most of Yellowstone park is located in Wyoming.
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13.
The original inhabitants of the Wyoming were the Cheyenne, Crow, Shoshone, Sioux, and Ute Indians.
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Wyoming was part of the Louisiana Purchase.
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The state nickname is the Equality State.
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Wyoming is the 44th state.
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Wyoming is the least populated state of all the states in the US.
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Devils Tower was the first official national monument.
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Wyoming has 32 islands within its state lines.
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The JCPenney stores began in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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