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1888 - John Merritt and C.W. Eads established the town of Casper, WY.

1899 - The Wyoming Derrick reported that a robbery of a Union Pacific train on June 2 near Wilcox, WY, was the work of George Curry and the Roberts brothers. Other papers had reported that the Hole-in-the-Wall gang with Butch Cassidy was responsible.

1974 - The grave of mountain man Liver-Eating Johson was relocated to the Old Trail Town in Cody, WY.




Wyoming Quote

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.
Dick Cheney





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