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Research Questions on 

 Wyoming 



(An Outline miltablc for Wyoming 

 will be found with the article 



Mate.") 



What does the name Wyoming 

 mean? Why is the name well suited 

 to the region? 



What is the popular name of the 

 state? What legislative enactment 

 it the right to this title? 



What is the state flower? (See 

 FLOWERS, subtitle State Flowers.) 



Describe this flower. 



How many states of the Union are 

 larger than Wyoming? How many 

 states have a larger population? 



How many states with a smaller area 

 have a larger population? 



How does Wyoming compare in 

 population with the state which it most 

 resembles in area? 



If the United States as a whole had 

 the same number of inhabitants to the 

 square mile as Wyoming has. what 

 would the population of the country he? 



If the smallest state in the Union 

 were as sparsely populated, how many 

 inhabitants would it have? 



Who was the first white man to visit 

 this region? 



In what work of literature was a 

 part of this region described? 



How does Wyomhig rank among the 

 states as to a\erage altitude? 



How does its greatest elevation com- 

 pare in altitude with the loftiest point 

 in each of the bordering states? 



I'pon how many states due-; Wyoming 

 border? How does it compare in area 

 with each of these? 



What is the most beautiful scenic 

 region of the state? Describe some of 

 its picturesque features. 



What is a "divide." in the scientific 

 sense? (See DIVIDE.) Where does the 

 Great Divide of the Continent occur in 

 Wyoming? 



What three great river systems of the 

 country receive waters from the melt- 

 ing snows of Wyoming's mountain.- ? 



Why are the extremes of heat and 

 cold not felt so keenly as they would 

 be in a coastal state? 



What is the extreme range of tem- 

 perature that has been recorded in the 



What Is the most Important branch 

 of agrlcultun " How do you account 

 for Its great development? 



What part of the total area is in 

 farm land? In improved farm land? 



What Is the aroa of the forest re- 

 s outside of Yellowstone National 



What tree* grow on the mountains? 

 On the foothlllH? On the plain*? 



Why have not the mineral n 

 <>ped to a great- 



How many states produce more coal? 

 What I* known an to the probable ex- 

 tent of the coal measures? 



What Interest Ing fact bear* testi- 

 mony to tho excellent quality of the 

 Iron ore of Wyoming? 



H w does the state compare with 

 nthrr states in the relation of rni 

 tullonge to area? 



n you *ee for the lack 

 of transportation facilities? 



In the southwestern part of the state is a 

 region from which no streams flow outward. 

 All of the drainage is into desert lakes, where 

 the sand swallows up the water. 



Wyoming was one of the regions formerly 

 frequented by vast herds of buffalo, or bison, 

 but to-day the only survivors are those which 

 roam the preserves in Yellowstone Park. 



Yellowstone Park is not the only national 

 reservation in the state. Forest reserves with a 

 total of 5,207 square miles have been set aside 

 in the Bighorn Mountains and the Medicine 

 Bow Mountains. 



Captain B. L. E. Bonneville, the hero of 

 Irving's Captain Bonneville, was the first man 

 to cross the Rocky Mountains with wagons. 



Among the interesting features of the Black 

 Hills region of Wyoming is the so-called Devil's 

 Tower, an elevation curiously carved by ero- 

 sion. 



In 1885 the rainbow trout was introduced 

 into Wyoming rivers from California, and it 

 has become one of the best pa me fish of the 

 state. In the Big Laramie River eight- and ten- 

 pound specimens are caught. E.B.P. 



Consult Hebard's The Government of Wyo- 

 : Peterson's Men of Wyoming. 



|{< Inted Subject*. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in Wyoming may consult the following 

 articles in these volumes : 



Cheyenne 

 Laramie 



Cattle 

 Petroleum 



CITIES 



Sheridan 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Sheep 

 Wool 



PHYSICAL FEATURES 



Bighorn River Yellowstone National 



Black Hills Park 



Rocky Mountains Yellowstone lit 

 Snake River 



WYOMING, UNIVERSITY OF, a state institu- 

 tion at Laramie, founded in 1886. It U organ- 

 ized into the colleges of liberal arts, agriculture. 

 engineering and education, the departments of 

 commerce, home economics, music and uni- 

 ity extension, a toachrrs' training high 

 school and a summer school. The state normal 

 M-lmoI is maintained as a depart mmt of the 

 college of education, and the Wyoming Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station is operated in con- 

 ntion with the work in agriculture. Though 

 the university is at the head of the educational 

 system of the state having the smallest popula- 

 tion except one (Nevada), it has an enrollment 

 of about 575 and a faculty of seventy-five. 

 The libra ry has 39,000 volumes. 



