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Show The New York Sun, in speaking of what it characterizes as the inappropriate inappropri-ate manner .of naming the territories, makes the queer mistake of saying that "Wyoming Territory was named from Campbell's poem, 'Gertrude of Wyoming.' Wyom-ing.' " The only association between the two is that the scene of the incidents of the celebrated poem is Wyoming valley, val-ley, a beautiful and fertile tract of land on the Susquehanna river, in Pennsylvania, made famous by the horrible massacre of its settlers by the Mohawk Indians during the revolutionary war. From this valley the Territory was given its name by Thad Stevens, the Pennsylvania Con- gressman, who introduced the bill for its ' organization. |