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Squaretop Mountain
Squaretop Mountain is another of Wyoming's famous landmarks, a truly natural feature, a gigantic monolith, shaped by glaciers, that towers over the headwaters of the spectacular Green River. It makes its grand appearance in the Bridger Wilderness, in western Wyoming's Sublette County
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J. C. Penney
It was April of 1902, when James Cash Penney put his life savings into a tiny retail store in the small mining town of Kemmerer, Wyoming. The store was called the "Golden Rule Store", where Mr. Penney offered the community fair dealing and honest value, on a strict cash-and-carry basis
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Hotel Higgins
It has achieved some sort of "rockstar" status, with a century of history and a single-moniker nickname. "The Higgins", is what many know today as the Higgins Hotel, and was born Hotel Higgins. This magnificent man-made Wonder was built when Wyoming was just 26 years into Statehood, in 1916, by local businessman John E
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Keyhole State Park
It may not have the backdrop of the jagged peaks of the spectacular Tetons in the northwestern corner of Wyoming. But this Wonder does have the beautiful setting of the Black Hills, and of course, another Wonder of Wyoming, Devil's Tower, in clear view
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The Trail End State Historic Site
It celebrates its own Centennial of sorts this year. This magnificent structure was truly an end-of-the-trail mansion, completed in 1913. It took 5 years to build, at an astronomical $165,000, and a state historic site was born
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Legend of Rawhide
This is an annual summertime ritual, a yearly celebration, up in Lusk, Wyoming. The Legend of Rawhide is a Niobrara County pageant that includes all of the traditional statehood celebration events
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The Wyoming High School All State Marching Band
The very first Wyoming High School All State Marching Band performed in 1990, as part of the Wyoming State Centennial. And just ten years later, at the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, the Wyoming High School All State Marching Band, numbering more than 500 members, became the largest marching band ever to perform there
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Spirit Mountain
Spirit Mountain took its name centuries ago, when Indians dubbed it so. They believed the steam that spews from caves in the mountain was the breath of a spirit. Its origins are of a supernatural nature as it rises out the landscape just west of Cody, Wyoming, in Park County, and the spectacular sureal sights at Spirit Mountain live on today