T. A Larson

Here in Wyoming in an area of almost 100,000 square mile, a proud and enterprising people have labored mightily to come up with adequate responses to a host of tough challenges. In 1965, as they pause to contemplate seventy-five years of statehood, may this volume be a help and a stimulus to their reflections.

For centuries Wyoming was a land no one wanted-high, dry and remote-more often a thouroughfare on the way to some place else than a final desination. Many of the sweeping developments that overtook the rest of the nation simply passed it by, leaving Wyoming to sit in lonely granduer behind its granite walls and silent snows.The problem, explains T.A. Larson in this history,was people-and how to get them there.