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1895 - Wyoming

Wyoming, wi-o'ming, a western state of the American Union, bounded N. by Montana, E. by South Dakota and Nebraska, S. by Colorado and Utah, and W. by Utah, Idaho, and Montana. It is quadrangular, and its bounding lines are the meridians of 104° and 111° W. and the parallels of 41° and 45° N. Area, 97,890 square miles.

Face of the Country.–From N.W. to S.E. extends the Wind River or main chain of the Rocky Mountains, in a course parallel to, but at some distance from, the diagonal line of the state. The southwestern portion of the state is therefore on the Pacific slope, and is drained principally by the Green and Snake Rivers and their many tributaries. Its surface is broken by mountain-ranges and buttes. The Atlantic or northeastern slope is drained by the Yellowstone, Big Horn, Powder, Big Cheyenne, and North Platte Rivers, and their numerous tributaries,—all direct or indirect affluents of the Missouri. In the N.W. is the Upper Valley of the Yellowstone, in which an area of 3525 square miles, mostly within this state, has been reserved as a national park. Here occur the grandest and most numerous geysers (or spouting, intermittent thermal springs) in the whole known world; while the mountains rising into the region of perpetual snows, the deep river cañons, and the headlong cataracts render it a region of great interest to the tourist. Between the Medicine Bow spur of the Rocky Mountains on the S.W. and the Laramie Mountains on the N.E. lie the great Laramie Plains, a cold and elevated region, some of whose surrounding peaks are clad with eternal snows. Northward and northeast ward from the Laramie Mountains there is a prairie- or plain-region, crossed by low anticlinals, which connects the Laramie Mountains with the Big Horn Mountains to the N. and the Black Hills to the N.E...

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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