this day in wyoming history

Here's a fun fact: Four months before the Union Pacific Railroad arrived in Cheyenne, surveyor General Greenville Dodge officially named the town and plotted the area on July 4, 1867. Although Independence Day officially marks Cheyenne's 150th anniversary, there was nothing here at the time...

The state of Wyoming is certainly a place of firsts. We were the first, in the Union, to allow women to vote, which lead to the nation's first female Governor.

Edmund Burke said, "Those who don't know history, are destined to repeat it." Wyoming is rich in history and we want to look at what events took place on this date in history.