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Each August Douglas hosts the Wyoming State Fair. The fair includes a carnival midway, live entertainment, and a rodeo. On August 12, 2009, the fair hosted country music star John Anderson. The centennial fair in 2012 attracted sixty thousand persons, large by Wyoming standards; the Dierks Bentley concert was the first ever sold-out show in the ...
The history of New Mexico is based on archaeological evidence, attesting to the varying cultures of humans occupying the area of New Mexico since approximately 9200 BCE, and written records. The earliest peoples had migrated from northern areas of North America after leaving Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge .
The bottom of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. Together with the Pacific States of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, the Mountain states constitute the broader region of the West, one of the four regions the United States Census Bureau formally recognizes (the Northeast, South, and Midwest being the other three).
The North Douglas Historic District is a residential section of Douglas, Wyoming, adjoining the original commercial district of Douglas to the north and east. The district grew from about 1904 to about 1912, with a few infills up to the 1940s.
The United States acquired the four corners region from Mexico after the end of the Mexican–American War in 1848. In 1863 Congress created the Arizona Territory from the western part of New Mexico Territory. The boundary was legally defined as a line running due south from the southwest corner of Colorado Territory, which had been created in ...
Chapple, Simon. “Writing Law into ‘New Western History’: Law and Order in Wyoming and New Mexico.” Australasian Journal of American Studies 27#2 (2008), pp. 44–65. online; Chisum, Emmett D. "Boom Towns on the Union Pacific: Laramie, Benton, and Bear River City". Annals of Wyoming 53#1 (1981): 2–13. Coutant, Charles Griffin (1899).
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The Mormon settlers of the Great Salt Lake Valley form the Provisional Government of the State of Deseret. [23] Brigham Young is elected Governor. Deseret encompasses almost all of the present U.S. states of Utah and Nevada, and portions of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, although only the Wasatch Front ...