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ID: 7013965
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013965
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Cheyenne (inhabited place)  Cheyenne (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 08 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.1333  decimal degrees
Long: 104 49 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -104.8167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Crow Creek in SE corner of Wyoming; named for displaced Cheyenne Indians; cattle ranching created wealth & attracted gamblers, gunmen & transients; vigilantism & wars against sheepmen followed; now trade center for middle Rocky Mountain area.

Names:
Cheyenne (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Wyoming (state)  ............  Wyoming (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Laramie (county)  ................  Laramie (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Cheyenne (inhabited place)  ....................  Cheyenne (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded along Union Pacific railroad in 1867
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1867
state capital (C)  ............  since 1890
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for chemicals, plastics & meat packing
county seat (C)
oil field site (C)
transportation center (C)  ............  especially for livestock shipping
timber center (C)
trade center (C)  ............  for supplying Black Hills gold explorers in 1870s & subsequently for livestock interests
tourist center (C)  ............  especially for Frontier Days which hosts a large rodeo in July
cultural center (C)  ............  including murals in State Capitol, also state museum
military center (C)  ............  nearby since 1867, now Fort Warren Air Force base, headquarters for Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile base
educational center (C)  ............  for Laramie County Community College founded in 1968
capital (H)  ............  of territory from 1869

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Wyoming .......... (state)
..................  (World, North and Central America, United States) [7007923]

Sources and Contributors:
Cheyenne..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 179 & II, 1028
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 185
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS56003415
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 251
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 179 & II, 1028
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 185
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS56003415
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 251
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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