Grey sky view people, historic statues, State Capitol steps south along Capitol Avenue to Union Pacific Depot, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Cheyenne, named after the Cheyenne Indian Nation, one of the most famous and prominent Great Plains tribes, was founded in 1867 at a crossing of the Union Pacific Railroad at Crow Creek, a tributary of the South Platte River. The Union Pacific Railroad reached Cheyenne on 13 November 1867, when the town's population was 4000. The Union Pacific Railroad Depot, a passenger station for the railway, was built 1886-87, and is one of the most beautiful railway stations in North America, and lies at the southern end of Capitol Avenue, opposite the Wyoming State Capitol. It currently houses the Wyoming Transportation Museum. At the foot of the Sate Capitol steps, in the foreground we see two statues: on the right, Chief Washakie, who was a fierce warrior, great leader of the Shoshone people, and friend to European settlers. He granted right-of-way access through Shoshone land, in Western Wyoming, for the Union Pacific Railroad, so aiding the completion of the transcontinental railway; on the left, Esther Hobart Morris, Wyoming Territory's first female Justice of the Peace in 1870 and a player in Wyoming being the first government in the world to grant women the right to vote in 1869.
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Location: Capitol Avenue (State Capitol to Union Pacific Depot), Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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