The following works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial Wyoming,

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and the State of

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Surveys of Wyoming history

* * * * Cassity, Michael. ''Lives Worth Living, History Worth Preserving Wyoming: A Brief History of Wyoming 1860 - 1960'' (2010) * * * *Dick, Everett. ''Vanguards of the Frontier: A Social History of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains from the Earliest White Contacts to the Coming of the Homemaker'' (1941
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* * * Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Wyoming. ''Wyoming, a Guide to Its History, Highways, and People'' (1940
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famous WPA guide

Historic expeditions

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Cook, Folsom, Peterson Expedition (1869)

Washburn, Langford, Doane Expedition (1870)

Hayden Geological Survey (1871)

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Business, economy and labor

* Cassity, Michael. ''Wyoming Will Be Your New Home: Ranching, Farming, and Homesteading in Wyoming, 1860–1960'' (Cheyenne: Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources, 2011) 342 pp. * Cassity, Michael. ''Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929-1943'' (Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office, 2013) * * *

Indians

* * Hoebel, E. Adamson. ''The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains'' (1978) * Lowie, Robert H. ''The Crow Indians'' (U. of Nebraska Press, 1983)

Military histories

* * * * Fifer, Barbara. ''Montana Battlefields 1806-1877: Native Americans And the U.S. Army at War'' (2005
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Primary sources

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Local and regional histories

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Law and order

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Ghost towns

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Biographies

* Chamblin, Thomas S. ed. ''Historical encyclopedia of Wyoming'' (2 vol Wyoming Historical Institute, 1954) ; 952 biographies in 1040 pages. * * *

Memoirs and primary sources

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