Wyoming
by Pat G.
What is 193 ft high, 27 acres long and has 5000 names carved into it? Of course it's Independence Rock of Wyoming. In the far northwest where the mountains grow high, there is a place called Wyoming.
In Wyoming there are plains like, the Great Plains, mountains like, The Rocky Mountains. It also has colorful valleys filled with life.
There are also plateaus raised above the ground. The Green River is a very beautiful sight.
Something that is very often visited and very much liked is Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park was the first National Park in the United States. Wyoming is the ninth biggest state in the U.S and is 97,914 square miles inside it! Wyoming has a total population is 5,159,795 people.
Wyoming has 23 counties. Some of the biggest counties are, Cheyenne (which is the capital of Wyoming), Casper, Laramie, Rockprings, and Sheridan.
The climate in Wyoming is a desert climate with wind up to seventy-five mph in gusts. The most rain Wyoming ever had was 14.8 inches. Wyoming’s state bird is the Western Meadowlark. Its state flower is the Indian Paintbrush.
Wyoming’s state tree is the Cottonwood. Its state stone is Jade. Wyoming’s state symbol is the bucking horse and rider. Wyoming’s state song is "Wyoming." Its state motto is "Equal rights."
Wyoming was the first state in the U.S. to let women vote! In Wyoming there are festivals, and I mean huge festivals. There are also powwows in Wyoming to help remember the Native Americans that lived before us. There are recreational things like, Grand Teton National Park, National Elk Refuge, Buffalo Bill museum, and Frontier days. There are Devils Tower, and Fort Laramie.
On July 10th 1890, Wyoming became the 44th state in the United States. But long before Wyoming became a state interesting things were happening there. The first people lived there 12,000 years ago. They lived in caves and hunted mammoths. When the cavemen and women came, it was long after the dinosaurs had gone and the volcanoes had died out. As many as 12 Indian tribes lived in Wyoming including, the Cheyenne, the Sioux and the Crow. The Wyoming Indians hunted buffalo and lived in teepees. The teepees were in the shape of a cone and were made of animal hide that was stretched and softened. The teepees were very mobile and were easy to move around when the buffalo herds moved. The first explorers may have come as early as the 1500's, but John Colter, who was a fur trapper in the area, was the first known explorer to enter the state of Wyoming. These explorers who entered Wyoming fought the Indians and also brought diseases to the Indians, like smallpox, witch had also killed many of the Indians. The 1800's put the Indians that were left into reservations. Soon after, farmers started to move to Wyoming to raise cattle. It was very successful. Wyoming was a really wild place before it became a state. It had gunfights in the streets and wild horses and stampedes and stickups. Everyone hoped that when Wyoming became a state that everything would work out. And it did. Now Wyoming is very orderly and the only place your going to see a gunfight is at a show or a recreational or national park.
Some of the things that Wyoming manufactures are refined petroleum, wood (lumber), and stone (marble, slate, and jade), clay products, foods, electronics, sporting apparel, and aircraft.
The natural recourses above ground in Wyoming are forests and lakes. The forests cover six acres of Wyoming. The natural recourses below ground in Wyoming are oils, minerals, jade and gold.
The things that Wyoming grows are, wheat beans oats sugar beets, and hay. Wyoming raises cattle, sheep, lambs, hogs, and pigs.
Wyoming's flag is a flag with a red border with a blue background color and a white imprint of a buffalo. The buffalo has Wyoming's state seal on it.
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