WYOMING 



dan is the largest city; Cheyenne, the capital, 

 is second in rank. Other important towns are 

 Rock Springs, Laramie, Casper, Rawlins and 

 Evanston. 



The Roman Catholics are the strongest re- 

 ligious body, and the Latter-Day Saints, who 

 have spread into the state from Utah, have a 

 large number of adherents. Other denomina- 

 tions, ranking in order of importance, are the 

 Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and 

 Lutherans. 



WYOMING 



Wherever as many as five pupils can 

 attend, schools have been established, and free 

 textbooks are provided by the state. High 

 schools and the normal school and university 

 at Laramie are supported by the state. Indian 

 schools have been established by the govern- 

 ment, and there are facilities for educating In- 

 dian boys and girls. 



Institutions. A state board of charity and 

 correction controls a hospital for the insane at 

 Evanston; a school for defectives at Lander; 



OUTLINE MAP OP WYOMING 



Showing boundaries, chief rivers, principal cities, mining- centers, the location of Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park (which extends Into Montana and Idaho), and the highest point of land in the state. 



Education. The problem of establishing a 

 school system covering large regions so sparsely 

 settled has presented difficulties, but it has been 

 effectively met, as is shown by the small per 

 cent of illiteracy, which averaged 3.3 per cent 

 in 1910 and only 1:6 per cent in 1915. There is 

 a compulsory-education law requiring all chil- 

 dren between the ages of six and twelve years 

 to attend school twelve weeks each year. The 

 system is administered by the state superin- 

 tendent of education, the city superintendents 

 at Cheyenne, Laramie and Rock Springs, and 

 by the county superintendents. 



The school fund is derived in part from the 

 rental of public lands reserved for school pur- 



an industrial school at Warland; general hos- 

 pitals at Sheridan, Rock Springs and Casper; 

 a soldiers' and sailors' home at Buffalo; Big- 

 horn Hot Springs Reservation at Thermopolis, 

 and the penitentiary at Rawlins. 



The Land. The state occupies a lofty 

 plateau, 5,000 to 7,000 feet above the sea, and 

 as a whole it lies at a higher altitude than any 

 other state. It is divided into several vast, 

 treeless plains by detached mountain ranges 

 rising 3,000 to 6,000 feet above the table-land. 

 The largest mountain masses are in the north- 

 west and southeast corners of the state. The 

 magnificent Shoshone, Teton, Gros Ventre, 

 Snow, Snake River and Owl Creek mountains 



