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1977 - Cheyenne Community Solar Greenhouse [24] and Historic Governor's Mansion museum opens. [19] 1978 - Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum founded. 1979 - July 16: Tornado. [25] 1980 - Population: 47,283. [26] 1981 - Frontier Mall in business. 1993 - Cheyenne Depot Museum founded. 1999 - City website online (approximate date).
Cheyenne (/ ʃ aɪ ˈ æ n / shy-AN or / ʃ aɪ ˈ ɛ n / shy-EN) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming, as well as the county seat of Laramie County, with 65,132 residents, per the 2020 census. [6]
Apr. 10—CHEYENNE — Everyone knows Wyoming earned its nickname as The Equality State because it was the first state to grant women the right to vote in 1890. What might not be as well known ...
Wyoming Will Be Your New Home: Ranching, Farming, and Homesteading in Wyoming, 1860–1960 (Cheyenne: Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources, 2011) 342 pp. Cassity, Michael. Lives Worth Living, History Worth Preserving Wyoming: A Brief History of Wyoming 1860 - 1960 (2010) Cassity, Michael.
Oct. 24—CHEYENNE — Cheyenne has a lot of history, which can make books that try to contain it big and cumbersome. For that reason, a new trade paperback sized book, "A History Lover's Guide to ...
Women's rights organizations in other western states looked to Wyoming as a model. [25] Women had held office in a range of capacities. [2] In 1880, Susan Johnson was appointed postmaster in Cheyenne and Mary Bellamy became the first woman to serve in a state legislature. Wyoming women exercised their right to vote: in the 1880s nearly 90% of ...
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
Owl Woman (Cheyenne name: Mis-stan-stur; died 1847) was a Cheyenne woman., [1] a daughter of White Thunder (and Tall Woman), [nb 1] a well-respected medicine man of the Cheyenne tribe. She was married to an Anglo-American trader named William Bent , with whom she had four children.