Front:
CHEYENNE
FEB
1890
23
1990
82001Wyoming 25
WYC
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WYOMING STATEHOOD CENTENNIAL
First Day of Issue: February 23, 1990
First Issue Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming
Sparsely populated and for the most part unspoiled,
Wyoming's natural beauty and old west atmosphere draw
thousands of visitors annually, making tourism one of the
state's major industries. Fur trappers and mountain men
were largely responsible for opening the area to the white
man in the early 1800's, while completion of the Wyo-
ming segment of the Union Pacific Railroad prompted an
influx of white settlers in the 1860's. After pioneering
political equality in 1869 by extending the vote to
women, Wyoming became the “Equality State" in 1890,
admitted as the forty-fourth state of the Union. Fittingly,
Wyoming was the first state to elect a woman governor,
Nellie Tayloe Ross, pictured in the lower right corner of
the cachet featured on this Maximum Card. The artwork
also features Devil's Tower, the country's first national
monument, a wagon train of settlers, several of the brown
bears that make Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park
their home and a cowboy on a rearing horse, a longtime
symbol of this rough and rugged western state.
No. 90-8
©1990 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
Original painting by Ed Little
