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was acquired by the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and organized into the Nebraska Territory in 1854. On March 2, 1861, the northern portion of the Nebraska Territory, including the northeastern portion of future Wyoming Territory, became part of the Dakota Territory, while the southeastern
441:, the southeastern section of the Idaho Territory (most of modern Wyoming) became briefly part of Dakota Territory once again, although a strip of land along the western border of what would become Wyoming remained part of the Idaho Territory. 374:, the land which became Wyoming has a complicated history of territorial relationships. Portions of the territory, which eventually fell under Wyoming's jurisdiction, were at various points associated with the territories of 695: 453:
signed the Wyoming Organic Act creating the Wyoming Territory using lands from the Dakota, Idaho, and Utah territories, and on April 17, 1869, the territorial government was organized. In 1869 the territory granted
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in 1861, most of it was transferred to the Nebraska Territory and subsumed into the Idaho Territory, in 1863. A small corner of Wyoming remained part of Utah until the creation of the Wyoming Territory, in 1868.
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The southwestern corner of what became the Wyoming Territory, south of the 42nd parallel, became part of the United States with the 1848 Mexican Cession. An eastern section of this was once claimed by the
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for all elections in an attempt to attract new settlers. A later attempt to repeal the law was defeated after the governor vetoed the repeal; the legislature failed to override the veto by one vote.
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portion remained with Nebraska, forming an extended Nebraska "panhandle". In 1863, the Idaho Territory was formed; it included the entirety of the modern states of
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On July 10, 1890, the territory was admitted as the forty-fourth state seven days after the Idaho territory was admitted by President
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The portion of the Wyoming Territory west of the continental divide and north of the 42nd parallel was originally part of the
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was the territorial capital. The boundaries of the Wyoming Territory were identical to those of the modern State of Wyoming.
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that existed from July 25, 1868, until July 10, 1890, when it was admitted to the
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Native Americans lived in the region for centuries. On July 25, 1868, President
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Lemay, Kate Clarke; Goodier, Susan; Tetrault, Lisa; Jones, Martha (2019).
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Former organized incorporated territory of the United States (1868–1890)
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Population of the States and Counties of the United States: 1790–1990
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Nebraska, and the territories of Dakota, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming
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and almost all of modern Wyoming save the southwest corner.
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U.S. congressional delegates from the Territory of Wyoming
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organized incorporated territory of the United States
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Index

Organized incorporated territory
the United States
of Wyoming Territory

Cheyenne
Organized incorporated territory
Motto
Cedant arma togae
gown
Statehood
Dakota Territory
Idaho Territory
Utah Territory
Wyoming
organized incorporated territory of the United States
Union
State of Wyoming
Cheyenne
1870
1880
1890
Louisiana Purchase
Oregon Country
Mexican Cession
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Dakota
Nebraska
Utah

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