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1841 and 1868
- After the discovery of the South Pass through the Rocky Mountains, as many as 400,000 emigrants crossed Wyoming between 1841 and 1868 on the Oregon, Overland, Mormon, Bozeman, and Bridger trails leading to what are now the present-day states of Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah, and California.
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Wyoming would become a U.S. state on July 10, 1890, as the 44th state. Native American settlement. There is evidence of prehistoric human habitation in the region known today as the U.S. state of Wyoming stretching back roughly 13,000 years.
As the territory and later the state became settled, the following counties were carved from the original five until there are now twenty-three counties in Wyoming. July 10, 1890, the territory consisting of the thirteen counties was admitted into the Union as a State.
In November 1867 the first train of the Union Pacific Railroad reached Cheyenne and made the state accessible to settlers and visitors. Also that year Fort D.A. Russell (now Francis E. Warren Air Force Base) was built on the branch of the South Platte River , 3 miles (5 km) west of present-day Cheyenne.
1834 – Wyoming’s first permanent white settlement develops at Fort William near the confluence of the Laramie and North Platte rivers; it is eventually renamed, Fort Laramie.
Wyoming was aquired as part of the Louisiana Purchace of 1803. Settlement was facilitated by the 1868 construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.
1842 - Capt. John C. Fremont's first expedition to Wyoming; named Fremont Peak. 1843 - Ft. Bridger, second permanent settlement, established by Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez. Military post 1858-1890. 1847 - Mormon migration to Utah.
Statehood Wyoming became the 44th state of the Union on July 10, 1890.* Republican Francis E. Warren became the first state governor in September of that year. Settlers trekked to Wyoming and friction developed. Many settled on the prairies with small cattle herds, then fenced off their claims.
