Wyoming

This is Wyoming in 1897. It's a land of great, open spaces. A land that gives a man plenty of elbow room. Somebody once said that in Wyoming, you could look farther, and see less than any place in the world. Whoever said that couldn't have seen Wyoming as I have. ~ The Virginian

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The state is the tenth largest by area, but the least populous and the second least densely populated of the 50 United States. 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.

Quotes

• This is Wyoming in 1897. It's a land of great, open spaces. A land that gives a man plenty of elbow room. Somebody once said that in Wyoming, you could look farther, and see less than any place in the world. Whoever said that couldn't have seen Wyoming as I have.
  • Irwin Blacker and Douglas Heyes, The Virginian, Introduction to the episode "West" [1.10] (air date November 28, 1962).

• He was up in Wyoming,
  And drew a bull no man could ride.
  He promised her he'd turn out,
  Well it turned out that he lied.
  And their dreams that they'd been livin',
  In the California sand,
  Died right there beside him in Cheyenne.
  • Garth Brooks, Fresh Horses (1995), The Beaches of Cheyenne, written by Dan Roberts, Bryan Kennedy, and G. Brooks.

• He heard the wind, the ever present Wyoming wind for the last time.
  • David Shepard, on the death of his son Matthew Shepard, in The Laramie Project (2002).