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The flag of Wyoming was officially adopted to represent the U.S. state of Wyoming on January 31, 1917. The flag consists of the silhouette of an American bison , a symbol of fidelity, justice and virility.
U.S. state flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) bordered by white and red; in the centre is the white silhouette of a bison (commonly called a buffalo) bearing the state seal. The seal was adopted by the state legislature in 1893.
The Wyoming State Flag, designed by Mrs. A.C. Keyes of Casper (formerly Miss Verna Keays of Buffalo), was adopted by the fourteenth legislature on January 31, 1917. The Great Seal of Wyoming is the heart of the flag.
Suffragist, University of Wyoming professor and former Wyoming regent of the D.A.R. Grace Raymond Hebard holds up a state flag in July 1930. The bison in this version faces the viewer’s left—implying that it would fly facing the flagpole—as Hebard demanded.
The Wyoming flag uses the same red, white, and blue as the U.S. national flag. According to Keays, the blue represented fidelity, justice, and virility. The red symbolized the Native peoples and the blood spilled in war. The white represented purity and uprightness.
The Wyoming flag features a striking blue background with a white bison in the center. The blue color represents the skies and mountains of Wyoming, while the white color symbolizes purity and uprightness.
Blue, which is found in the bluest blue of Wyoming skies and the distant mountains, has through the ages been symbolic of fidelity, justice and virility. And finally the red, white and blue of the flag of the State of Wyoming are the colors of the greatest flag in all the world, the Stars and Stripes of the United States of America."
The Wyoming state flag is composed of a dark blue field surrounded by red and white lines. In the middle of the flag is a white silhouette of American bison, which bears the seal of the state. The white color symbolizes uprightness and purity.
The flag of Wyoming. The flag of the State of Wyoming has an American bison in the center (facing to the left) and the Seal of Wyoming in the middle of the bison. The flag's original design was for the buffalo to face the opposite way. There is a variant of this flag with the seal removed.
The Wyoming State Flag. In 1916, Wyoming was one of the few states in the union that could not claim an official state flag. Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Wyoming, was at that time state regent for the Daugters of the American Revolution (DAR).