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Wyoming's highest court is the Supreme Court of Wyoming, with five justices presiding over appeals from the state's lower courts. Wyoming is unusual in that it does not have an intermediate appellate court, like most states. This is largely attributable to the state's population and correspondingly lower caseload.
Wyoming: A bicentennial history (WW Norton & Company, 1977). Lavender, David. Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier: Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Wyoming (United States Government Printing, 1983). link; Nicholas, Liza. “Wyoming as America: Celebrations, a Museum, and Yale.” American Quarterly 54#3 (2002), pp. 437–65. online
The Territory of Wyoming was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 25, 1868, [1] until July 10, 1890, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Wyoming. Cheyenne was the territorial capital. The boundaries of the Wyoming Territory were identical to those of the modern State of Wyoming.
Twenty other state names derive from European languages: seven come from Latin (mostly from Latinized forms of English personal names, one of those coming from Welsh), five from English, five from Spanish, and three from French (one of those via English). The source language/language family of the remaining five states is disputed or unclear ...
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
Wyoming: Wyomingite Wyomese, [63] Wyomingian See also. Geography portal; Demonym. List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names.
(West started splitting time from L.A. and Wyoming in 2018 and purchased two homes there in 2019.) A second source told Us at the time that the pair, who share North, 7, Saint, 5, Chicago, 3, and ...
An enlargeable map of the United States after the admission of Wyoming to the Union on July 10, 1890. An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since Hawaiʻi was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959. The following outline traces the territorial evolution of the U.S. State of Wyoming.