MAPPING AND GEOGRAPHICAL WORLD

Cheyenne, Wyoming has pretty much always been a crossroads since the early times of the plains Indians, the city's name echoing the name of one of those tribes. In 1867, the Union Pacific set up camp in Cheyenne while building the nation's first transcontinental railroad. Cattle ranching was big in the area, attracting wealthy investors from the East. The Cheyenne to Deadwood stage traveled a North/South route. Later, U.S. Highway 30, called the Lincoln Highway, the nation's first coast-to-coast rock road, passed through town in the early 1900's, and was later paved.