Every Lake
Wyoming
A perfect rectangle, four degrees by seven, with the first national park in the corner.
Wyoming in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Wyoming.
About Wyoming
Wyoming is a rectangle, four degrees of latitude by seven of longitude, with not one natural feature in its borders — and inside, some of the roughest ground in the country. The Rockies come through in separate ranges: the Bighorns, the Wind River with Gannett Peak at 13,809 feet, the Tetons rising straight out of Jackson Hole with no foothills at all. The Continental Divide actually splits around the Great Divide Basin, where water runs nowhere. The east is high plains and the Powder River Basin. Twenty-three counties, the fewest of any state in the West.
Wyoming entered on July 10, 1890 as the 44th state, having already given women the vote in 1869 as a territory — the first government in the world to do so, and the reason it is called the Equality State. Cheyenne began in 1867 as a Union Pacific end-of-track town and became the capital. Yellowstone, set aside in 1872 as the first national park anywhere, occupies the northwest corner, and I-80 crosses the south on the old railroad line.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 9 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
