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Carbon County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census,the population was 14,537. Its county seat is Rawlins. Its south border abuts the north line of Colorado.
Laramie is a city in and the county seat of Albany County,Wyoming,United States,known for its high elevation at 7,200 feet (2,200 m),railroad history,and as the home of the University of Wyoming. The population was 31,407 at the 2020 census,making it the fourth-most populous city in Wyoming. Located on the Laramie River in southeastern Wyoming,the city is west of Cheyenne and 25 miles (40 km) north of the Colorado state line,at the junction of Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 287.
Evanston is a city in and the county seat of Uinta County,Wyoming,United States. The population was 11,747 at the 2020 census. It is located near the border with Utah.
Lilian Heath was the first woman physician in the state of Wyoming and one of the first to practice medicine west of the Mississippi River.
The Great Divide Basin or Great Divide Closed Basin is an area of land in the Red Desert of Wyoming where none of the water falling as rain to the ground drains into any ocean,directly or indirectly. It is thus an endorheic basin,one of several in North America that adjoin the Continental Divide. To the south and west of the basin is the Green River watershed,draining to the Gulf of California/Pacific Ocean;to the north and east is the North Platte watershed,draining to the Gulf of Mexico. The basin is very roughly rectangular in shape;the northwest corner is at Oregon Buttes near South Pass,about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Lander,and the southeast corner is in the Sierra Madre Range near Bridger Pass,about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Rawlins.
The Cheyenne Depot Museum is a railroad museum in Cheyenne,Wyoming,United States. It is located inside the 1880s Union Pacific Railroad depot. A National Historic Landmark,the station was the railroad's largest west of Council Bluffs,Iowa,and a major western example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture.
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Fort Steele,also known as Fort Fred Steele,was established to protect the newly built Union Pacific Railroad from attacks by Native Americans during construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States. The fort was built in 1868 where the railroad crossed the North Platte River in Carbon County,Wyoming. Work on the fort was carried out by military and civilian labor. Fort Steele was one of three forts built on the line. Fort Sanders near Laramie and Fort D.A. Russell at Cheyenne were the other railroad forts. Fort Steele was named for the recently deceased General Frederick Steele.
The Point of Rocks Stage Station is a former resting place at the meeting point of the Overland Trail and the Union Pacific Railroad in Sweetwater County,Wyoming,USA. It was built as a stop for the Overland Stage Line in the 1861 or 1862,equidistant between the earlier Black Buttes and Salt Wells stations,which were 28 miles (45 km) apart. The station served the stage line from 1862 to 1868. In 1868,the Union Pacific line reached Point of Rocks,putting the stage line out of business. The station then became a freight depot for nearby mines,with a road leading to Atlantic City and South Pass. The freight activity declined,and in 1877,the station became a residence. At one point it was allegedly inhabited by Jim McKee,a former member of the Hole in the Wall Gang. It became the property of the state of Wyoming in 1947 and is administered as Point of Rocks Stage Station State Historic Site.
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Marshall A. Burt is an American politician who served in the Wyoming House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party,Burt previously was a Libertarian while he represented the 39th district from 2021 to 2023. Burt was the first third-party candidate elected to the Wyoming Legislature in over 100 years.
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