Wyoming: a guide to its history, highways, and people

Foreword / Lester C. Hunt -- Preface / Agnes W. [Wright] Spring -- General information -- Calendar of annual events -- Wyoming: past and present: Contemporary scene; Natural setting; Archeology and Indians; History; Transportation; Industry, commerce, and labor; Agriculture; Education; Sports and recreation; Folklore and folkways; Literature; The theater; Music; Art; Architecture -- Cities: Casper; Cheyenne; Laramie; Sheridan --

Tours: 1. (Lead, S. Dak. - Newcastle - Lusk - Torrington - Cheyenne - (Denver, Colo.) {U.S. 85}

2. (Kimball, Neb.) - Cheyenne - Laramie - Rawlins - Rock Springs - Junction with US 30S - Kemmerer - (Montpelier, Idaho) {US 30}

2A. Cheyenne - Pole Mountain Game Refuge - Junction with US 30 {Happy Jack Road}

2B. Laramie - Saratoga - Junction with US 30 {State 130}

2C. Junction with US 30N - Evanston - (Ogden, Utah) {US 30S}

3. (Billings, Mont.) - Sheridan - Casper - Orin - Cheyenne - (Fort Collins, Colo.) {US 87}

4. (Scottsbluff, Neb.) - Torrington - Junction with US 87 {US 26}

4A. Fort Laramie - Fort Laramie National Monument {Fort Road}

4B. Junction with US 26 - Dead Man's Gulch {Guernsey Lake Drive}

5. South Entrance of Yellowstone Park - Junction with US 187 - Dubois - Lander - Rawlins - Laramie - (Fort Collins, Colo.) {US 287}

5A. Junction with US 287 - Atlantic City - South Pass City - South Pass - Junction with US 187 {South Pass Mail Road}

6. (Crawford, Neb.) - Lusk - Casper - Shoshoni - Greybull - Yellowstone Park East Entrance {US 20}

6A. Junction with US 14-20 - Lovell - Cowley - Frannie - (Billings, Mont.) {US 310}

7. Junction with US 287 - Jackson - Junction with US 189 - Rock Springs {US 187}

7A. Junction with US 187 - Grand Teton National Park Headquarters {Park Drive and US 187}

8. (Custer, S. Dak.) - Newcastle - Gillette - Buffalo - Worland {US 16}

9. Junction with US 187 - Kemmerer - Junction with US 30S {US 189)

10. (Spearfish, S. Dak.) - Beulah - Moorcroft - Ucross - Sheridan - Ranchester - Greybull {US 14}

10A. Junction with US 14 - Kane - Lovell - Byron - Powell - Cody {State 14}

11. Casper - Alcova - Three Forks {State 220}

12. Shoshoni - Riverton - Lander {State 320}

13. Wilson - Alpine - Afton - (Montpelier, Idaho) {US 89}

Yellowstone National Park Grand Loop Tour: Mammoth Hot Springs - Norris Junction - Madison Junction - West Thumb - Lake Junction - Canyon Junction - Tower Junction - Mammoth Hot Springs {Grand Loop Road}.

Appendices: Chronology

Glossary

1940 Census figures.

Illustrations: Green River glaciers / J. E. Stimson

Wind River Range (The Continental Divide) / Carl Blaurock

Summer range / Charles J. Belden

Green River, with Gannett Peak and glacier in background / J.E. Stimson

In Teton country / Rothstein

Sunset on the plains / Rothstein

Graves along the Oregon Trail

Names carved on Register Cliff, near Guernsey

Jim Baker

Wyoming's oldest building, the post sutler's store at Fort Laramie

Fort Supply, built by the Mormons (1853) / Merritt D. Houghton

Pony express stables, Fort Bridger / Rothstein

The first school house (1860), Fort Bridger / Rothstein

Sherman Station, Union Pacific route (1869)

Soldiers and construction workers fighting off Indian attack during building of Union Pacific

Clearing the track [of buffalo]

Stagecoach at Encampment

Gem City Minstrels, Laramie (1870)

Trailing from the summer range / Charles J. Belden

Branding the calves / Charles J. Belden

The fine art of fore-footing / Charles J. Belden

Wrangler / Charles J. Belden

Off to the roundup / Charles J. Belden

Feed lot / Dan Healy

Sheep wagon / Rothstein

Shearing / Rothstein

At the crack of dawn / Charles J. Belden

Jealousy / Charles J. Belden

Cow country style / Charles J. Belden

Pot luck / Charles J. Belden

Bunkhouse stud / Charles J. Belden

Back from the hunt / Lawrence Harshbarger

Ready for the trail / Crandall Studios

Jackson Hole dude ranch / Crandall Studios

Setting up for the night / Crandall Studios

Frontier Days celebration, Cheyenne [multiple Indians in full dress]

Bulldogger / Charles F. Belden

Ride 'em, cowboy!

Talking it over / J.A. Shaw

Coming down! / J. Frank McDaniel

Riffle fishing, Gardiner River, Yellowstone Park / Haynes, Inc.

Buffalo Bill statue, Cody / F.J. Hiscock

University of Wyoming [Old Main] / Rothstein

Main Street, Lander

In the Mormon town of Afton

Cheyenne (c. 1870) / W.H. [William Henry] Jackson

Early-day railroad town / W.H. Jackson

Sign at Sweetwater / Rothstein

False fronts, l Hartville

Sheep range / Charles J. Belden

Whitefaces / Charles J. Belden

Cutting highland grain / Charles J. Belden

Potato fields, Shoshone Irrigation Project

Call of the wild / Charles J. Belden

Fury of the storm / Charles J. Belden

Table d'hote

bears in Yellowstone Park / Haynes, Inc.

A big horn / Ned Frost

Buffalo, Yellowstone Park / Haynes, Inc.

Sand lilies / T.W. Daniels

Younger generation

Arapaho women tanning hides, Wind River Reservation / U.S. Indian Service

Joint Business Council, Shoshone and Arapaho Indians

Louis Tyler, a Shoshone, and Reverend John Roberts, at Shoshone Reservation

Fullblood Shoshone

Arapaho Indian woman displaying her handicraft

Indian pictographs, Fremont County

Lower Falls of the Yellowstone / W.H. Jackson

Upper Fire Hole, from Old Faithful / W.H. Jackson

Superintendent N. P. [Nathaniel Pitt] Langford, Mammoth Hot Springs, Jupiter Terrace, looking north / W.H. Jackson

Old Faithful / W.H. [William Henry] Jackson

Bad lands [Badlands] along Wind River / Jackson

Fremont's Peak / Jackson

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, from brink of Lower Falls / Jackson

Photographing in high places

scene in Lincoln County: W.H. Jackson and his assistant, Charles Mitchell / Jackson

Grand Teton / Jackson

Chief Washakie of the Shoshone Tribe / Jackson.

Maps: Key to Wyoming tours

Wyoming / Works Projects Administration, Wyoming Writers' Project

Historic trails of Wyoming

Wyoming transportation map

Yellowstone National Park.