CONTENTS. WYOMING IN THE TERRITORIAL GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS THAT LED TO THE OCCUPATION OF THE STATE LANDS, WATER, LABOR, CORPORATIONS, MILITIA AND PUB LIC BUILDINGS 114 PART III. THE ADMINISTRATION OF AFFAIRS IN WYOMING. CHAPTER XVII. THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE 125 CHAPTER XVIII. ELECTIONS 135 CHAPTER XIX. EDUCATION AND SCHOOL LAWS 144 CHAPTER XX. IRRIGATION AND FOREST RESERVES 155 CHAPTER XXI. GOVERNMENT IN THE DISTRICT, Town, City, COUNTY AND STATE 164 CHAPTER XXII. GOVERNMENT IN THE DISTRICT, Town, CITY, COUNTY AND STATE (Continued) 176 APPENDIX A. CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 199 APPENDIX B. STATE BUILDINGS APPENDIX C. GOVERNORS OF WYOMING 239 APPENDIX D. THE SUPREME COURT OF WYOMING 240 APPENDIX E. DELEGATES TO CONGRESS FROM WYOMING TERRITORY 241 APPENDIX F. STATE ELECTIVE OFFICERS 242 238 WYOMING IN THE TERRITORIAL GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES. Wyoming occupies an unique position on the map of the United States. It is the only State that contains lands obtained from all four of our principal annexations which form the territory west of the Mississippi river. The land covered by the original thirteen States included all of the States east of the Mississippi river except Florida which was ceded to us by Spain in 1819. Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867. All of the States and territories between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean were acquired under one minor and four principal titles: The Louisiana Purchase, 1803. 1846. Gadsden Purchase, 1853. The first four of these contained lands that now make up the State of Wyoming and deserve special mention because they are a part of the early history of the State. The Gadsden Purchase, also known as the second Mexican Cession, only embraces a small part of southern Arizona and New Mexico. The Mexican territory constitutes all of California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. (All of Sweetwater County, the southwestern part of Carbon and southern part of Uinta.) The Texas Annexation includes all of the State of Texas and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming. (Most of Carbon County and the southwestern part of Albany.) |
