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*[http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/ Wyoming Tales and Trails] | *[http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/ Wyoming Tales and Trails] | ||
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Wyoming is a Delaware Indian word meaning "[http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108293.html mountains and valley alternating]". The vast state of Wyoming was first inhabited by the Arapaho, Bannock, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crows, Cree, Dakota, Gros Venutreno or Chumashan, Gosiute, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Menominee, Numa, Paiute, Pawnee, Shoshoni, Sioux, Ute (Southern) Indians. <ref>Hodge, Frederick Webb. ''Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico.'' Washington D.C.;Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethonology, Bulletin #30 1907. (Family History Library {{FHL|553639|title-id|disp=film 1320577 Item 1}}.) Full text is available at [http://books.google.com/books?id=ze4YAAAAYAAJ Google Books], [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175700661 Worldcat]</ref> For more information see the [[Indians of Wyoming|Indians of Wyoming]] page. | |||
<br>Portions of what is present day Wyoming were at one time claimed by Spain, France, and England. The acquisition of the territory by the United States was completed through five major annexations—the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the Treaty of 1819 with Spain, cession by the Republic of Texas in 1836 and partition from Texas after it was annexed in 1845, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican War, and the international agreement with Great Britain in 1846 concerning the Columbia River country. | <br>Portions of what is present day Wyoming were at one time claimed by Spain, France, and England. The acquisition of the territory by the United States was completed through five major annexations—the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the Treaty of 1819 with Spain, cession by the Republic of Texas in 1836 and partition from Texas after it was annexed in 1845, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican War, and the international agreement with Great Britain in 1846 concerning the Columbia River country. | ||
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The following events affected political boundaries, record keeping, and family movements in [[Wyoming Genealogy|Wyoming]]. | The following events affected political boundaries, record keeping, and family movements in [[Wyoming Genealogy|Wyoming]]. | ||
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