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Wyoming

state, United States
Also known as: Cowboy State, Equality State
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Gerald Raymond Webster
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Alabama, University. Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1985–89.
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Wyoming, constituent state of the United States of America. Wyoming became the 44th state of the union on July 10, 1890. It ranks 10th among the 50 U.S. states in terms of total area. It shares boundaries with six other Great Plains and Mountain states: Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Colorado to the south, Utah to the southwest, and Idaho to the west. Cheyenne, the capital, is...

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