Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-09 | Page 30 | The Story of the States

I I I I. I The 0 of I St Story St t I It t ory t the e a es 1 I By Albert Payson Terhune i. i 1 rr MM NAM Copyright 1513 1913 by br TUo 1110 11 Ire Irl Co i WYOMING WYOMING MOTTO MOTTO LET ARMS YIELD TO THE ROBE ROBB BIG rectangle as ns evenly enl mark marked lI P A off oct as a n. pa page e of this newspaper i L and of ot about the same lame shape a shape a rectangle whose clI edges es are as regular and as straight as If cut b bv by rule Tits Tills Is the tho neat outline of or Wyoming in strong tron contrast to the ragged edges of or most of ot Its tell fellow fellow w states A rectangle by br miles In area and from to feet above e the level lo of ot the tha sea sene In the heart of oC It Is the wonderful Yellowstone park patk The fhe state was once largely a desert which more tha than n 1000 milts miles of ot irrigation n lion canals mals have turned turned into rich land It Is a man man made made state And An man has had hall more to fight against there In order to make Wyoming what it is to today today tuda tu- tu da day than in almost any other part o of America Wyoming lay ay unsettled almost unexplored unexplored un un- explored until the nineteenth century's s first quarter was past Then came camo tho the fur traders Fur as much as gold has settled the west The rho first white settlement settlement set set- was formed at l lort rr In n 1834 i And almost at once Indian troubles troubles troubles trou trou- bles set InThe In The trail from the cast east to the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- coast ran through Wyoming Over O this Ull tramped the tho procession of or gold gold- seekers Mormons and other pioneers And lurking Indians from ambush m hush proceeded to make bloody blood history along alonS' the trail This brought the government troops troop to the scene And forts fort sprang up with new s settlements around them During Durin one period of oC six Ix months there I were not less les th than n one fifty Indian fights in Then In D December December Decem Decem- cember cem- cem I ber ber 1 1861 ent Be seventy nine nine soldiers soldier from Fort Phil Kearney were ambushed and massacred b by the tile savages These tragedies led the settlers to name namo their turbulent western home Wyoming in memory memon of ot the Wyoming massacres In Penns Pennsylvania J durin during tho revolution when British and Indians I i had slaughtered the peaceful folk of oC I Wyoming 30 valley valloy e The name yo 0 I mini ming b by the Wa way Is a l I Ia 0 a Delaware Indian word ninIn plain p in nin- nin In 1869 Wyoming was organized territory terr from Crom sections of ot Utah J li liard a and ard lid tho the On Dakotas kotaR ll Tlc e Indian tl ti still kept on And there were o conflicts For Por Instance the thedis the dis of ot gold old brou brought ht an era ern of ot wild ml mJ camp life liCe with organized bands bandit hl highwaymen hw and with grim vigil l I committees to deal with th them m. m jq it Till II i n. YS OF OP LAW L. r Cattle antI and sheep raising formed or ned territory's chief Industry And tit were WOI bloody battles between the ca 1 owners and the Cat Ca thieves 08 too called for Cor rough roush that fed el to something like a R tiny tidy el ci c war before the trouble was aUl I stamped ou out t. t A gang s-ang of oC miners showed their resentment at the Inti auction of or Chinese labor labOI Into the m hv by h attacking 40 of oC them and driving ing away the rest restI next year ear car a hitter winter killed thi quarters of or all the territory's s ra Tar cattle f Little b by little out of chaos and andt f tl lence came order L' L aid ad prosperity 18 1890 Q Wyoming w was admitted as a asta str Since then H its Ita growth roth ro th has been t rap 1 It Its population from In 1880 ta 1 1 In 1910 has increased m than titan sevenfold In the past thirty yei