Wyoming Firsts, Facts, and Trivia
Wyoming Famous Firsts, Wyoming Interesting Facts, Wyoming Trivia
Land of the Rising Sun?
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, people of Japanese descent living on the Pacific Coast were relocated to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming.
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, people of Japanese descent living on the Pacific Coast were relocated to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming.
More Wyoming Firsts, Facts, and Trivia
- Wyoming's license plates feature a man on a bucking bronco.
- Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote.
- Yellowstone is the first official National Park (1872)
- Devils Tower was designated as the first National Monument
(1906)
- The city of Gillette has the largest High School in the state
(Campbell County High School)
- The first coal mine in Wyoming was in Carbon in 1867
- The largest coal mine in the USA is Black Thunder located near
Wright.
- Wyoming leads the country in coal production in 1994 with 3
million tons per week
- The JCPenney stores were started in Kemmerer.
- The first Dude Ranch in Wyoming was the Eaton Ranch, near Wolf.
The Eaton's also came up with the term "dude"
- The Horse on the Wyoming license plate has a name, "Old
Steamboat". It is named after a bronc that could not be ridden back
in the oughts or the teens.
- Wyoming has the lowest population of all 50 United States.
- Cody Wyoming is named after William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
- The majority of Yellowstone Park lies within the boundaries of
Wyoming.
- The Red Desert in south central Wyoming drains neither to the
east nor to the west. The continental divide splits and goes around
the desert on all sides leaving the basin without normal drainage.
- The Wind River actually changes its name in the middle of the stream becoming the Big Horn River at a site at the north end of the Wind River Canyon, where each year the Native Americans hold a ceremony depicting the "Wedding of the Waters."
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