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Before the late 19th century, the area around the future site of Wheatland was a flat, arid landscape with desert-like vegetation. In 1883 local rancher and judge Joseph M. Carey, along with Horace Plunkett, John Hoyt, Morton Post, Francis E. Warren, William Irvine, and Andrew Gilchrist, established the Wyoming Development Company.
The Grants emigrated to the United States in 1878 with their sons Tom and Robert, Jr. to join some of Margaret's family members in Wyoming. They established a 160-acre (65 ha) homestead, which they sold in 1884. Their new home became the Grant Ranch. After establishing an irrigation system the family built a permanent house in 1890.
Robert Mills Grant, known as Bob Grant (December 30, 1926 – March 1, 2012), was a third-generation rancher from Platte County in southern Wyoming and from 1983 to 1992 a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives.
Hannah Shields is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle's state government reporter. She can be reached at 307-633-3167 or hshields@wyomingnews.com . You can follow her on X @happyfeet004.
I've spent time exploring all 50 US states. After doing so, there are three states I would choose to live in: New York, Rhode Island, and Wyoming.
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Platte County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
CHEYENNE — The general election is just a little more than 10 days away, and Laramie County has six contested races for seats in the Wyoming Legislature. Out of 14 local legislative races in ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Wyoming. A total of 7 men were executed prior to Wyoming becoming a State on July 10, 1890: