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Milk River expedition, 318
Miller, David, 230
Miller, H. T., 581
Millions of buffaloes, 154
Mills, Robert, 341
Mineral paint beds, 596
Mineral resources, 26, 376
Minerals in Wyoming, 405-411
Minerais-see under each county
"Miners' Delight" or Hamilton City, 74 Miners' entertainments, 137
Mines, ancient, 36
Mining and placer aets, 24
Minor railroads, 349 Mirror plateau, 46
Miseellaneous acts of twelfth legislature, 253 Miscellaneous facts about the Union Paeifie,. 346
Miseellaneous history, 613 Miscellaneous legislation, 256
Missionaries of seventeenth century, 119
Missionary work, beginnings of, 476 Missionary work of Father De Smet, 119, 120 Mississippi, De Soto at the, 75
Mississippi, origin of name of, 76
Missouri Fur Company, 97
Missouri, territory of, erected, 92
Mitchell, Col. D. D., 70
Moisture, fall of, 24 Monarch geyser, 50
Mondell, Frank W., 220, 594 Monroe, James, 86 Monument on Massaere hill, 283
Moonlight, Thomas, 181 Moonlight's administration, 181 Mooreroft, 592 Moore pardon, the, 219
Moose, 22 Morgan, E. S. N., 177 Morgareidge, J. W., 293
Mormon battalion, the, 126 " Mormon church founded, 124 Mormon colonies, 125
Mormon immigration, 311
Mormon trail, the, 326
Mormons and argonauts, 124
Mormons and 49ers at Hartville, 40
Mormons pass through Wyoming, 127 Mormons alleged to urge Indian depredations, 277 Morris, E. J., 578
Morris, Mrs. Esther, 207
Morris, Robert C., 227
Morrison, J. S., 293
Mound builders, 31, 38
Mounds, Indian, 59
Mount Hoyt, 46 Mount Hancock, 46 Mount Washburn, 46
Mountain elevations, 641
Mountain lions plentiful, 139
Mountain rat, the playful, 139
Mountain sheep, 20-22, 136
Mudpots, 48 Mud Springs ranch, 278
Municipal courts, 468 Murphy, John, 162
Murphy, Michael, 176
.Murrin, Col. Luke, 210, 552
Muskhogean family, the, 61
Mystery of Lost Cabin mines unsolved, 142
Napoleon, 85, 86, 87, 117 Natehez, the, 60
National conventions, 1908, 243
Native plants, 24
Natrona county, 532
Natural bridges, 23
Natural gas, 568
Nature's freaks and wonders, 22
Nauvoo, Ill., driving the Mormons out of, 125
Nearly two million acres irrigated, 361
Nebeker, John, 161
Nebraska, historie legislation affecting, 81
Newcastle, 594
New charter, a, 551
New Gallicia, 109
New Spain, 67 Newspaper started at Fort Bridger, 163
Newspapers of Laramie, 454 Newspapers of the state, 458-461
New state progressive, 198 Nicollet, Jean, 76 Ninth legislature, 180
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Ninth state legislature, 242 Niobrara county, 533 Niza, Marcos de, 110 Noble, Worden, 163 Nootka Sound named, 80
Norris geyser basin, 52
North, Orlando, 176 Northern coal fields, 394
North Park trip in 1879, a, 136
North Platte project, 28 North-West Company, the, 95
Norton, John T., 216
Noted cases, a few, 473
Noted pony express riders, 330
Notes and comment, woman suffrage, 208
Notorious resorts closed, 262
Novel wedding announcement, 154
Nuekolls, Stephen F., 173
Nugget, the first California, 131
Number of Mormons passing through Wyo- ming (1847), 129 Numerous Indian villages, 39
Nurses' dormitory authorized, 269
Nye, Bill, 455-457
Obsidian cliff, 52 Obsidian creek, 46 O'Connor, Thomas, 175 Officers, State Bar association, 1917, 1918. 473 Ogden, Wiliam B., 342 Oil-see under separate counties Oil fields, 28 Oil production in 1917, 28
Oil refineries, 28
Oil resources, 26
Oil royalties to the state, 389
Oils, annual production refined, 390 Old cabin home, the, 138 "Old Faithful,"' 48
Old fashioned farming disappearing, 356 Old Fort Laramie (illus.), 304 Old Texas trail, the, 366 Old timers' stories, 134 Old trading post, the, 306
Old Wyoming (poem), 630 Onate, Don Juan de, 111
Oregon agreement with Russia, 81
Oregon Basin projeot, 28 Oregon battalion, the, 274
Oregon boundary question, 80
Oregon emigration, the, 311 Oregon, history of early, 80 Oregon Short Line, 349 Oregon trail, the, 326, 610 Oregon Trail Monument celebrations, 135 Organic act, the, 165 Organized labor in Wyoming, 634
Organizing a government, 550 Organizing the cattlemen's raid, 616 Origin of cattle business, 363 Origin of civil law, 462
Origin of newspapers, 450 Origin of the name Yellowstone, 46 Original homestead of F. S. King (illus.), 527
Orleans, purchase of the island of, 90 Osborne, Gov. John E., 216 Osborne Live Stock Company, 220 Osborne's administration, 219
Osprey falls, 46 Other advantages for farming, 353 Other important mineral deposits, 400 Other schools, 441
Other towus, 611
Other Wyoming publications, 456
Outlawry, 232
Outrages upon emigrant trains in the '50s, 129 Overland route, the, 131 Overlook mountain, 46 Owen, William O., 223 Owens, John, 509
Pacific Fur Company, 80, 96
Page, A. N., 216 Paine, Thomas, 117
Paint ores, Indian, 40
Paintpots, 48 Paleontology, studies in Wyoming, 43
Palmer, Joel, 318
Pan-American exposition, 234
Paris, the treaty of, 87
Park and monument reserve, 38
Park county, 534
Park hotels, 56
Parkman's description of old fort, 308
Parmelee, Carroll H., 216
Passing of the stage coach, 337
Patent by Louis XV to Western Company, 68
Patented lands, 24
Pathfinder project, 28
Pathfinder reservoir, 360
Patrick, Ed., 135
Patrol and protection work at Yellowstone park, 56
Pauper's Dream gold mine, 210
Pawnee scouts, 280 Pease, Mrs. Saralı W., 206
"Penalosa, the duke of,"' 112 Penitentiary, Wyoming State, 265
Penitentiary commission, 266
People's party nominees, 1898, 230
Per capita wealth, 27 Percentage of sunshine, 23 Perils of stage coaching, 336 Period of settlement, 161
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Perrot, Nicholas, 76 Personnel of Captain Raynold's expedition, 123 Pete Downs' speech, 134
Peterson, William, 53
Petit jury, the, 206 Petroleum, 26 Phosphate beds, 401 Phosphate lands, 24
Pierce, Rev. D. J., 502
Press of Wyoming, the, 450
Pike and other game fish, 22
Pike, Lieut. Zebulon M., 115
Pilgrim House, the, 556
Pine Bluffs, 594
Pine grouse, 22
Pioneer associations-see under separate
towns and counties
Pioneer bankers, 418 "Pioneer " locomotive, 347
Pioneers-see under each county
Pioneers, stories of Wyoming, 134
Pioneers and builders of Wyoming, 143
Pitchstone plateau, 46
Pintes, the, 66
Placer acts, 24 Placer gold found at Los Angeles (1841), 131
Platte county, 536 Pleasant View hotel, 270
Pleistocene period, 48 Plymouth Company, the 68 Poem on Caspar Collins, 151
Poems on Wyoming, 630
Political campaign of 1892, 216
Political campaign of 1896, 227
Political campaign of 1908, 243
Political campaign of 1914, 254 Political conventions, 213
Political conventions of 1916, 257 Polk, James K., 78, 80
Pony express, the, 329
Pope, Gen. John, 321
Popo Agie preserve, 22
Population by counties, 638
Population of cities, 639
Populist convention and nominees, 224
Post, Amelia B., 195
Post, Morton E., 163, 555
Postmasters of Cheyenne, 560
Postoffice at Cheyenne, 558
Potash deposits, 401 Potter, Charles N., 223, 466
Pottery, Indian, 42
Poultry production, 27 Powder River expedition, 278 Powell, 594 Powell, Capt. James, 284 Powell, Maj. J. W., 620, 621
"Prairie of the Mass," 119 Pratt, Orson, 128 Precious fossil deposits, 43 Precipitation, 24, 358 Prehistorie animals, 42 Prehistorie mines, 31 Prehistoric races, 31 Present education system, 442
Presidential electors, 1890, 232
Pierre's hole, 118
Prices, some early, 627 Prices for Wyoming oil, 392
Priest, Charles H., 230 Principal towns of each county, 612
Private and secular schools, 440 Proceedings in the house, 200
Proclamation, 188 Production of state in 1917, 27
Products adapted to soil and climate, 353
Progress of four score years, 325
Progressive nominees of 1914, 254
Prohibition legislation proposed, 259
Prohibition question, the, 258
Promontory, the, 48 Protecting the Overland, 275 Protection of animals at Yellowstone park, 56
Protection of prehistorie remains, 38 Protection of wild game, 22 Protests of the United States, 289
Province of Louisiana, 91
Provision prices in '49 gold fields, 132
"Psychological buffalo," 135 Publie institutions, 181
Public lands, 24
Public officials, 639
Public revenues, 414
Public school system, 28
Purchase of Louisiana, 84
Pure food law, 253
Purpose of the courts, 463
Public utilities of Cheyenne, 560 Pyramid peak, 46
Quadrupeds, the largest extinet, 43 Quarries of the aborigines, 31 Quealy, P. J., 216, 582 Quivira, 110
Racehorse case, the, 474
Racy debate (woman suffrage), 201
Raids along the Platte, 277
Railroad mileage, 350
Railroads in Wyoming, 350
Railroads reaching Yellowstone park, 56
Railways in counties-see under each county Rainbow trout, 22
Rainfall, 24 Ramirez, Don Sebastian, 68
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Randall, Rt. Rev. George M., 484 Range disputes, 370 "Ranger Jones," 616 Rangers at Yellowstone park, 56 Rankin, The Reverend, 497 Raynolds, W. F., 52, 107, 123 Rawlins, 596 Rawlins, John A., 596 Rawlins iron deposits, 398 "Rawlins red," 596
Reclamation filings, 24 Reclamation projects, 18 Red Cloud's defeat, 284 Red Desert, 541
Reel, Estelle, 223
Reese, Rt. Rev. Frederick F., 488 Refineries in Wyoming, 1917, 390
Relies of Indians, 37, 38 Religiou in Wyoming, 476 Remains of extinct animals, 43
Reptiles, prehistoric, 44 Republican national convention, 1916, 258
Republican nominees of 1914, 254
Revelation of Brigham Young, 127
Revising the statutes, 226
Revolution of 1895 (Cuban), 289
Richards, De Forest, 230
Richards, William A., 223, 225
Richardson, William R., 216
Rich gold placers, 140 Riddell, Henry, 162 Riley, James, 621 Riner, John A., 469
Rio Grande, Mexican boundary, 78
Riot at Rock Springs, 179
Riot, Chinese, 602, 624
Ritter, George W., 176 Rivers and lakes, 17
Riverton, 600
Road agents, 337 Robert Cavelier, sieur de la Salle, 177 Robinson, C. H., 31 "Roche Janne," 46
Rock formation in Yellowstone, 48
Rock implements, 36 Rock River, 600
Rock Springs, 600
Rocky Mountain Fur Company, 101
Rocky Mountain sheep, 20
Rogers, H. J., & Co., 555
Rolling mills, U. P., 588 Romance of Ah-ho-ap-pa, the, 312
"Romance of the Border," 334 Rough riders, Torrey 's, 298 Rude stone art, 42 Rural post roads, 260 Rush of gold seekers, 311 Russell, Majors & Waddell, 329
St. Joseph, Missouri, 326 St. Louis, early fur mart, 94 St. Louis, Missouri, 326 St. Vrain's fort, 121 Sacajawea, the girl pathfinder, 65, 114, 149, 150 Sage brush, 24
Sage hen, 22 Saloons regulated, 262 Salt Lake City incidents, 155 Salt Lake valley selected by Brigham Young, 95 San Francisco, a hamlet, 132
San Ildefonso, treaty of, 85
Santa Anna, General, 79 Santa Fé trail, the, 326
Saratoga, 602
Saratoga & Encampment Railway, 349
Saratoga hot springs, 602
Scare of 1857-58, 129
Scenic freaks and wonders, 22
Schnitger, W. R., 628
Schofield, Gen. John M., 172
School census and apportionment, 443
School conditions in 1877, 434
School enrollment, 1880-1916, 435
School for defective children, 584
School land, 28-30
School statistics by counties, 443
Schools, 28
Scientific expeditions, 32
Scott, Dr. D. W., 498 Scott, Richard H., 467
"Seratehed nose with a gun," 155 Seasons of the year, 23
Second state legislature, 220
Secretaries of state, 640 Security of bonds, 415
Seeley, S. E., 216 Selective draft boards, 261
Selkirk, the earl of, 96
Seminoe iron ores, 398 Senatorial deadlock, 222
Sener, James B., 465
Settlement of Oregon question, 81
"Seven cities of Cibola," 109 Seven new counties created, 249 Seventh legislature, 177 Seventh state legislature, 234 Sheep and wool industry, the, 28, 368
Sheep and cattle on forest reserves, 1916, 372
Sheep wiped out by storm, 368 Sheridan, Gen. P. H., 53, 604
Sheridan, 604 Sheridan county, 537 Sherman, Gen. W. T., 72 Shoshone forest, 20 Shoshone Indian reservation, 270
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Shoshone project, 28 Shoshone reserve, 22 Shoshone reservoir, 360 Shoshone traditions, 65 Shoshonean family, the, 45, 61 Shoshones, the, 65 Shoshoni, 606
Silver and gold, 26 Simms, C. S., 41
Siouan family, the, 45, 61
Sioux, treaty with the, 72
Sioux raids on Wind river, 286 "Sitting Bull," 148 "Six Nations," the, 61
Sixth state legislature, 232
Size of extinct giant animals, 43 Skull of a triceratops, weight of a, 43
Skunks, peculiar habits of, 139
Skurry, Henry, 622 Slough creek, 46 Smet, Pierre Jean de, 119 Smith, E. L., 584
Smith, Rev. George L., 494
Smith, Harlem I., 31
Smith, Jedediah S., 102, 131 Smith, Joseph, 124
Smithsonian expedition, 32
Snake river, 46 Sneddon, Thomas, 572
Snow, Erastus, 128 Snow-fall, 24 Snow storm wipes out sheep, 368
Snowy range, the, 46
Socialist nominees of 1914, 254 Soda Butte creek, 46
Soda lakes, 23, 400
Soda resources, 26 Soils of the state productive, 353
Soldiers' and Sailors' home, 264
Soldiers' monument, 302
Solfatores, 48 Some early prices, 627 Soto, Hernando de, 75, 109 South Pass city, 162 South Superior, 608
Spain's oppression of Cuba, 289
Spalding, Rt. Rev. John F., 486
Spaniards in America, the first, 67 Spanish-American war, 289 Spanish authorities in Mississippi valley, 84 "Spanish Diggins," the, 32-34, 592 Spanish expeditions, 109 Spanish treaty of 1819, 80 Sparks, John, 622 Spates, A. W., 177 Sportman's paradise, 20 Spotted Tail, 313 Stage coach, day of the, 332
Stage coach transportation at Park, 56 Stage drivers, celebrated, 334 Stage experiences, 154 Stage holdups, some, 337 Stanley, Henry M., 312 Stansbury, Capt. Howard, 122, 132 State auditors, 640
State bankers association, 426 State bar association, 472
State board of charities and reform, 263
State board of horticulture, 239
State board of immigration, 245
State board of school land commissioners, 262 State capitol, 272
State department of education, 442
State fair, the, 253
State federation of labor, 635
State fish hatcheries, 22
State flag, 260
State flower, 260
State government inaugurated, 213
State governors, 640 State historical society, 227
Statehood, 435
State hospital for the insane, 264
State industrial accident fund, 256
State institutions, 263
State leader on "Texas Trail," 366
State of Deseret, the, 129
State political conventions, 1910, 246
State seal, the, 220
State teachers' association, 442
State treasurers, 640
State's oil income, 390
State university, 444-449, 588
Statistics and chronology, 637 Steever cadet system, the, 440
Stein, J. L., 40 Stephen, the Moor, 109 "Stinking Water" changed to Shoshone, 233 Stockman's paradise, 375
Stockyards at Laramie, 588
Stone axes and hammers, 39 Stone implements, aboriginal, 32 Stone, Julius F., 621
Stone, Mrs. Elizabeth A., 223 Stoner, J. W., 570 Stories of a frontier preacher, 156 Story of Cheyenne, the, 548 Stories of Lost Cabin placers, 140
Stories of the pioneers, 134 Strahorn, Mrs. C. A., 558 Street, Thomas J., 524
Stuart, Robert, 100
"Stump speeches full of stumps," 137 Sturgeon, 22 Sublet, 606 Sublette, Milton G., 106
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Sublette, William L., 102, 107, 116, 581 Success in cooperation, 362 Suffrage bill in the council, 201 Sugar, manufacture of-see under separate towns Sugar factories use limestone, 402 Sully, Gen. Alfred, 279 Sulphate of soda, 23 Sulphur, 26 Summary, the, 642 Sundance, 606 Sunday school started, 159 Sunshine records, 23
Sunrise mine, 27
Superior, 608
Supervisors of Yellowstone park, 56 Supreme court, the, 466
Surprised the country, 203
Sutler's store at Fort Laramie, 140
Sutter, John, 131
Swain, Mrs. Eliza A., 209
Sweetwater county, 538 Swift progress of dry farming, 354
Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert, 488
Taliaferro, T. S., 578 Talleyrand, 85 Talpey, R. E., 551
"Tame" mountain sheep, 136
Tartarrax, province of, 111 Tascaluza, battle of, 75 Tax commission, personnel of, 244
Teachers, number of, 1870-1916, 435
Teachers' institutes, 438
Telephone lines in mines, 254
Teller City, 137
Temporary government of United States in Louisiana, 91
Temperatures, 23 Ten counties in 1889, 187
Ten Eyek, Captain, 283 "Ten million buffalo" (more or less), 135 Ten years' war, the (Cuba), 289 Tendency to criticise courts, 462
Tenth legislature, 182 Tenth state legislature, 243
Territorial auditors, 640 Territorial courts, 463
Territorial governors, 640
Territorial history, 161
Territorial judges, 463-465
Territorial seal, 174
Territorial secretaries, 640
Territorial treasurers, 640 Terry, Gen. A. H., 72
Territory of Louisiana in 1805, 91
Territory of Wyoming established, 82 Testimonials to Frank Grouard, 147
Teton national forest, 20, 22 Texas, annexation of, 79 Texas as republic, 79 Texas revolution of 1836, 79 Textbooks and curriculum, 435
Thayer, John M., 175
Thayer's administration, 175
The Needles, 46
Thermopolis, 608
Third regiment, Wyoming national guard, 262 Third legislature, 175
Third state legislature, 225
Thirteenth state legislature, 235
Thompson, David, 46
Thomas, Rt. Rev. N. S., 4, 488, 489
Thumb, The, 48
Thunder lizard, 43
Tidball, L. C., 220
Tide of emigration, the, 311
Timber reserves, 20
Tisdale, J. A., 616
Todd, Joseph W., 258
Tonti, Henry de, 77
Tools, aboriginal, 36
Topography, 17
Tornado at Lovell, 1908, 588
Torrey's rough riders, 298
Torrington, 608
Torture test, an Indian, 148
Tourists' accommodations at Park, 56
Tower falls, 46
Towns, list of, 612
Townsend, John K., 121
Trading post at Yellowstone, an early, 50
Trading posts in Wyoming, 107, 108
Tradition of the flood, 62
Tramps unwelcome in Cheyenne, 555 Trans-Mississippi exposition, 229 Transportation at Yellowstone park, 56 Transportation methods, early, 325 Transfer of Louisiana to United States, 91
Trapper's outfit, a, 94
Treaties by United States with Indian tribes, 69
Treaty of Fontainebleau, 642
Treaty of Fort Bridger, 73
Treaty of Fort Laramie, 69
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 78
Treaty of Madrid, 84, 85
Treaty of Paris, 87
Treaty of 1783, 84
Treaty of 1819, 80 Treaty of 1868, the famous Indian, 312
Treaty with Cheyennes and Arapahoes, 73
Treaty with Crows, 73
Treaty with Sioux, 72 Tribal distribution, 60 Triceratops, the, 43
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INDEX
Trist, Nicholas P., 78 Troops withdrawn, the, 286 Trout of all kinds, 22 Trout season, 576 True, James B., 24 True Republic, The (poem), 193 True story of Lost Cabin placers, 140 Trumbull, Walter, 53 Tu-ku-a-ri-ki (Sheepeaters), 45 Twelfth state legislature, 252 "Twelve apostles," the, 128 Twentieth-century Cheyenne, 561 Twenty million acres good dry-farming land, 354
Two-ocean plateau, 46 Two sets of returns made, 218 Tyler, President, 79 Tynan, Thomas T., 230
Tinta county, 542 Unappropriated public lands, 24 Under the constitution, 465
Union Pacific, the, 341
Union Pacific rolling mills, 588
Union Pacific shops, 596
United States courts, 468
United States forest reserves, 20
United States geological survey report, 1917, 405-411
United States poliey toward Indians, 69
United States reclamation projects, 359 United States weather bureau reports, 23 University, State (illus.), 445 University of Wyoming, 444-449, 588 Upper Basin hotel, 56
Upper Yellowstone falls, 46 Upton, 610 Useful minerals found in Wyoming, 405 Utah handbook of history, the, 161 Utensils used by early Indians, 59
Vacations and camping-out, 22 Value of Wyoming's wool, 1918, 374 Van Devanter, Willis, 196, 466 Van Horn, Col. J. J., 618 Van Orsdel, J. A., 226 Van Tassel, R. S., 628 Vancouver's expedition, 80 Various Indian tribes, 67 Vase, an ancient Indian, 42 Vaux, Rev. William, 484 Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la, 112
Vigilance committee, 163, 552 Village sites of aborigines, 37 Virginia falls, 48 Visions of Joseph Smith, 124 Volcanic glass, 52
Voleano, an extinct, 48 Volunteers transported home by state, 298 Voorhees, Luke, 153, 155, 230 Vote in first election, 173 Votes cast for delegate in 1888, 188
Wagon trains of the argonauts, 132 Wall of glass, a, 52 War on rustlers, 615
War with Germany, 261
Ware, Eugene F., 313
Ware, J. A. & Company, 556
Warner, Captain, 52 Warren, Francis E., 177, 178, 184, 196, 323
Warren, Lieut. G. K., 123
Warren Live Stock Company, 179
Warren's administration, 178
Warren's second administration, 184
Washakie, head chief of the Shoshones, 66, 151
Washakie county, 545 Washakie forest, 20
Washburn, Gen. H. D., 53
Washburn-Doane expedition, 53
Washington, George, 69
Waterfalls, 18
Water resources, 26 Waterworks-see each town
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, 113 Wealth per capita, 27
Weather bureau observations, 23
Webster, Daniel, on the "Desert," 356
Wells, Fargo & Company, 333
Western Company, the, 68
Western Governors' special, 250
Weston county, 546
"Westward Ho!", 3 Weyler's cruelty, 289 Wheatland, 610 Where the west begins (poem), 632 Whiteomb, E. W., 145
White, C. M., 176 White, Elijah, 130 White, James, 620 Whitehead, James R., 163, 469, 550
White-tailed deer, 56 Whittier, E. S., 576
Wild animal life, 20
Wild game legislation, 22
Williams, Ezekiel, 115, 122 Williams, P. L., 578 Wilson, Nate P., 20 Wilson and Marshall electors carry state, 258 Wind river projeet, 28 Wind river reservation, 66, 73 Winter, Charles E., 633 Winter quarters of the Mormons near Omaha (1846), 126
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Woman suffrage, 197; in constitutional con- vention, 208 Women on grand jury, 205 Woodruff, John D., 518 Wool and hides, 27, 574
Wool productiou, 28; 1906-1915, 372 Workmen's compensation act, 255
Worland, 611 World war, 261 Wright, Agnes R., 4
Wyeth, John B., 328 Wyeth, Nathaniel J., 116
Wyeth's second expedition, 117
Wyoming (the Wyoming state song), 633 "Wyoming," as name for territory, 164 Wyoming, part of Nebraska, 81
Wyoming, poems on, 630
Wyoming, the future iron state, 400
Wyoming, the new oil state, 377 Wyoming & Missouri River Railroad, 349 Wyoming banks, 417
Wyoming bar, the, 469-472
Wyoming battery, the, 297
Wyoming Central project, 28
Wyoming coal deposits, 392
Wyoming council for national defense, 261 Wyoming day at St. Louis World's fair, 236 Wyoming Development Company, 247, 360 Wyoming electors, 1908, 243
Wyoming established as territory, 82 Wyoming fifty years old, 637
Wyoming forest, 20
Wyoming General Hospital, 229, 268, 604 Wyoming horse is hardy, 375 Wyoming Industrial Institute, 250, 271 Wyoming iron fields, 397 Wyoming Labor Journal, 635, 636 "Wyoming man-killer,'' 525
Wyoming newspapers in 1918, 458-461
Wyoming Northern Railway, 350 Wyoming oil geology, 381 "Wyoming-old and new" (poem), 2 Wyoming press, the, 450 Wyoming railroad, 349
Wyoming school for defectives, 250, 271, 584 Wyoming Soldiers' and Sailors' home, 264, 268 Wyoming State Bankers association, 426 Wyoming state capitol, 272
Wyoming state flag, 260
Wyoming state penitentiary, 265
Wyoming State Tribune, 453 Wyoming state university, 444-449, 588
Wyoming trading posts, 107
Wyoming under many rules since 1493, 82 Wyoming under various sovereignties, 75 Wyoming Volunteer Aid association, 302 Wyoming Wool Growers association, 372 Wyoming's experiment, 204
Wyoming's prizes at World's fair, 237 Wyoming's prompt pledge of loyalty, 261 Wyoming's response (1898), 292
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"Yeast Powder Bill," 155 Yellowstone, origin of the name, 46 Yellowstone lake, 18, 48 Yellowstone National park, 22, 45 Yellowstone park, area of, 24
Yellowstone park, boundaries of, 54
Yellowstone park, headquarters at, 56
Yellowstone park, management of, 54
Yellowstone Park Hotel Company, 56
Yellowstone Park Transportation Company, 56
Yellowstone river, 46
Young, Brigham, 125; arms Indians, 277
Zoological gardens, 261 Zuni ruins, 110
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