Wyoming Turns 125 This Week

My home state, Wyoming, is celebrating 125 years of statehood this week.  As we celebrate, I look back and realize that the Cowboy State has historically been on the forefront of change and adapting to the times – and not just as it relates to the energy industry...

Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote in 1869.  Wyoming had the first woman governor in 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross, and she was later the first woman to head the U.S. Mint.  The first woman Justice of the Peace, Ester Hobart Morris, was appointed in South Pass City in 1870.  The first national park in the world was Yellowstone National Park, designated in 1872, and Shoshone National Forest became the first national forest in 1891.