2645 UNITED STATES (Wyoming) - Cows grazing at the foot of Elk Mountain

Elk Mountain is a northernmost of the Medicine Bow Mountains, a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains that extend for 160km from northern Colorado into southern Wyoming. Lying in the shadow of its 3400m namesake, the settlement of Elk Mountain is a quiet community of cottonwood-lined streets, picturesque buildings, with world class trout fishing right downtown. Much of the historical significance of the Elk Mountain area lies in the development of a transportation network linking the east and west coasts.

1057 UNITED STATES (Wyoming) - Wyoming map

Placed between Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho, Wyoming is one of the three states (along with Colorado and Utah) which have borders along straight latitudinal and longitudinal lines. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High Plains. Following, is the second least densely populated of the 50 United States, after Alaska. Its capital and its most populous city is Cheyenne founded in 1867 by General Grenville M. Dodge and named after the American Indian Cheyenne nation, one of the most famous and prominent Great Plains tribes.