Wyoming

The Cowboy States capital is located in Cheyenne, and the state has a land area of 97,818 square miles. Wyoming's highest point is Gannett Peak at 13,804 feet and its lowest point is on the Bell Fourche River at 3,100 feet. Wyoming's towering mountains and vast plains provide spectacular scenery, grazing lands for sheep and cattle, and rich mineral deposits. Second in mean elevation to Colorado, Wyoming has many attractions for the tourist trade, notably Yellowstone National Park. Hikers, campers and skiers are attracted to Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Hole National Monument in the Teton Range of the Rockies. Cheyenne is famous for its annual ?Frontier Days? celebration. Flaming Gorge, the Fort Laramie National Historic Site, and Devils Tower and Fossil Butte National Monuments are other points of interest. Its name, taken from the Wyoming Valley of NE Pennsylvania, is an Anglicized form of a Delaware Indian term meaning "place of the big plain." Wyoming is called the Equality State and the Cowboy State.

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