Just to be a humor-impaired pedant, it was actually named after a Lt. Caspar Collins.
I live in Wyoming. I moved there on purpose. It’s a horrible place - don’t do what I did. Just come in June, July, or August to visit the parks, then get the hell out.
I’ve been all around the country many times. There are no Americans, more unfriendly, more provincial, predjudiced and outright unpleasant than those I’ve met in Wyoming. The Jackson Hole, Snake River and Yellowstone area is OK. They’re used to outsiders and the economy runs on tourists. Once you get up around Gillette, don’t get out of the car except to buy gas.
I once arrived in town and they knew where I was came from and that I’d left there 90 minutes earlier. It’s not only that empty in Wyoming, they’re that watchful of people who don’t belong there.
The landscape is (mostly) beautiful and worth the trip but I thought Montana was more handsome. The West half of both states is more scenic.
[QUOTE=Nunzio Tavulari;14868975 Once you get up around Gillette, don’t get out of the car except to buy gas.
I once arrived in town and they knew where I was came from and that I’d left there 90 minutes earlier. It’s not only that empty in Wyoming, they’re that watchful of people who don’t belong there.
[/QUOTE]
And when you’ve gotten lost, broke down or ended up in a ditch; twenty strangers will brave a blizzard, at night, to get you to shelter, even if it’s a donated motel room, because you lost your wallet.
As long as you’re white.
I am from Wyoming, 4th generation and the descendant of homesteaders and yes a lot of the state was homesteaded.
Salt Lake City is 2000’ lower in elevation than Evanston on the edge of the state and most of the state is very high and dry. Anchorage has warmer weathers than many of those towns in SW Wyoming.
Salt Lake was also a crossroads for several trade routes which is a huge reason it became a “large regional city”
The ranchers in my area typically only get one cutting of hay and we had around a 60 day growing season.
So with a short growing season and minimal water the AUM or the amount of forage needed to sustain one cow and calf for a month per area of land is pretty low.
Look at Utah outside of the Wasatch Front or Nevada and there are many areas that are similar to Wyoming in population density.
The state has great grazing lands and lots of natural resources but those industries just don’t require a lot of people.
Remember that Denver, and the entire Front range of Colorado where most of the states population lives is really in the plains.
Actually no, they will stop, with the cold temps and the windchill there is a risk of death.
It may be very white but racial tensions are lower level then I noticed living in San Francisco.
Of course there are racists there but someone will stop.
It surprised me when I sat on the side of a freeway in California with 1st through 3rd degree burns over half my body, people yelled at me for having caused a traffic slow down due to my car bursting into flames but hundreds of cars passed me before someone stopped and offered to get me medical help.
Wyoming has it’s problems but not in that way.
I think this sort of humanity is directly related to population density. It’s pretty easy to disappear a stranger’s body in Wyoming, should he necessitate his own killin’ through wanton misconduct, and that inspires confidence in one’s bearing which makes generosity a much less risky proposition. In Cali, you can stop to help a burned up motorist and run a very real risk of getting sued by him.
(The above are ridiculous, hyperbolic overgeneralizations)
There’s a HUGE difference between Colorado and Wyoming outside of Denver. Driving north on I-25 along the Front Range, it’s really apparent when you cross from Colorado to Wyoming, even if there were no state boundary signs. The billboards and high rise signs begin to sprout like weeds; south of the state line they’re very rare. The smaller towns seem grittier, more like frontier outposts, than those of a similar size in Colorado. Cheyenne and Laramie are more run down, with struggling downtowns and unattractive strip development, while similarly sized cities south of the state line such as Fort Collins, Loveland and Longmont are clean, have nice downtowns, and more attractive retail strips with landscaping, architectural controls, short signs, and the like.
Another thing that struck me about the change that seems to take place at the state line; in Colorado the traffic consists of regular cars and SUVs. Immediately north of the state line, in Wyoming, it’s pickups by the score. “Cowboy culture” is much stronger in Cheyenne and Laramie than in FC, Greeley and points just to the south. There’s more “grizzled” people, for lack of a better word, in Wyoming than Colorado.
That being said, Sierra Trading Post FTW.
Wouldn’t Wyoming be an excellent place for windmill/solar energy farms? Lots of wind, wide open spaces, flat land?
Of course, Wyoming is pretty far away from major cities-so the transmission losses would be high.
Speaking of resources-doesn’t Wyoming have huge deposits of oil shale? Once the technology of extracting the oil is perfected, Wyoming will probably experience a big boom-like North Dakota.
Should I be buying Wyoming RE in anticipation?
A gerund, you mean.
Eh, I consider the government’s confiscation of apostrophes to be barbaric illiteracy and feel free to ignore it.
nm
[Moderator Note]
Lamar Mundane, let’s avoid unnecessary cracks like this in General Questions. No warning issued.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
No. Chicago THINKS it is cold, flat and windy…but you guys have no clue 
Related question: How did Wyoming get its name? The Wyoming were a Native American tribe-who lived in Eastern Pennsylvania (the Wyoming Valley).
BTW, there is a small town in SE Rhode Island called Wyoming-how did that happen.
Here in the Boston area, you do see the occasional Wyoming license plate (the Bucking bronco with the cowboy)-I really like that plate!
It’s named after the Wyoming Valley. Whoever named the state just liked the sound of it.
The territory and later state of Wyoming was named after the place in Pennsylvania.
The government should bus inner city ghetto kids to schools in Wyoming everyday, so diversity can be enjoyed there too.
Like someone said earlier, the best parts are owned by the Government.
Which in turn has an origin: