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The Parting of the Ways is an historic site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, where the Oregon and California Trails fork from the original route to Fort Bridger to an alternative route, the Sublette-Greenwood Cutoff, across the Little Colorado Desert.
English: This is a locator map showing Sublette County in Wyoming. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Wyoming.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 90 law enforcement agencies employing 1,691 sworn police officers, about 317 for each 100,000 residents.
Sublette County was created February 15, 1921, of land partitioned from Fremont and Lincoln counties. Its governing organization was completed by 1923. [3] Before settlement, the western Wyoming mountains were traversed and harvested by fur trappers and traders. Sublette County is named for one of those early characters, William Lewis Sublette. [4]
(The name on the map titled "South Pass" is in southwestern Wyoming.) There are at least 92 named trails in Sublette County, Wyoming according to the U.S. Geological Survey, Board of Geographic Names. A trail is defined as: "Route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail)."
1872 Wyoming Territory, with Emigrant Trail and road to the Montana gold mines marked. The Emigrant Trail in Wyoming, which is the path followed by Western pioneers using the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails (collectively referred to as the Emigrant Trails), spans 400 miles (640 km) through the U.S. state of Wyoming.
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In 1912, a riot resulted in the escape of twenty-seven inmates and the death of one local man. [3] A gas chamber was added in 1936. Five men were killed there. The original cell block gained running water in 1978. [4] In November 1990 Wyoming voters approved a constitutional amendment that abolished the Wyoming State Board of Charities and Reform.