On July 10, 1890 Wyoming, the place where I grew up, was admitted to the Union as the 44th state. It is a big, square, empty place—at least if you are looking for people. It is the tenth largest state, but fiftieth in population, only an estimate 544,000 or so folks most of them clustered in small cities along the route of the Union Pacific Railroad/U.S. Highway 30/Interstate 80 in the south, the oil city of Casper in the middle and the boom/bust energy towns (coal, oil, uranium) in the Powder River area. The vast interior of the state is mostly unpopulated wilderness to this day, range after range of rugged mountains.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:01:04 +0000
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