In the summer of 1874, Lt. Colonel George Custer led a large expedition including about 1,000 troops with scientists and reporters into the Black Hills, officia...
Wyoming State Information
Capital
Cheyenne
Nickname
Big Wyoming, Equality State, Cowboy State
Motto
"Equal Rights"
Admitted To Union
July 10, 1890 - 44th State
Size
97,914 square miles
Highest Point
Gannett Peak; 13,804 feet
Lowest Point...
The granite spires of the Needles formation, standing a mile above sea level, are the result of millions of years of erosion on the highest elevations east of t...
Almost 70 years ago Lakota (Sioux) Chief Henry Standing Bear asked Korczak Ziolkowski to create a monument of Crazy Horse in the sacred Black Hills. Today, you can see Standing Bear's dream has grown into enormous reality.
Crazy Horse Memorial, ma...
When you think of the early days of Deadwood, what group comes immediately to your mind—miners, gamblers, prostitutes—others portrayed so convincingly in HBO's ...
President Theodore Roosevelt approved the establishment of Wind Cave National Park on January 9, 1903. The park was the first area set aside to preserve and pro...
“You will feel them before you hear them…You will hear them before you see them.”
The greater Black Hills area is wonderfully abundant in wildlife, and even more remarkable in the amount of public access allowed for viewing creatures in their native...
Spring around the Black Hills is cool. Daytime highs in May average in the 60s and warm into the 70s during June. Overnight temperatures are still chilly—especi...
