||Big Wyoming, Equality State, Cowboy State |Admitted to Union
||July 10, 1890, 44th State ||97,914 square miles, 9th largest
state ||Gannett Peak, 13,804 feet ||3,100 feet, Belle Fourche
River |Average Annual Precipitation |Population (2010 Census)
State of Wyoming Wyoming is in the western United States. It is
bordered by Montana on the north, South Dakota and Nebraska on
the east, Colorado and Utah on the south, and Utah, Idaho and
Montana on the west. The land within these borders was first
called Wyoming in 1865, when a member of the U.S. Congress from
Ohio suggested that a new territory be carved from Dakota, Utah,
and Idaho territories. The name Wyoming is a contraction of the
Native American word mecheweamiing ("at the big plains"), and
was first used by the Delaware people as a name for the Wyoming
Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania. Wyoming is known as the
Cowboy State and the Equality State. The latter recognizes
Wyoming as the first state to specifically give women the right
to vote, which it did