Wyoming is the home of only a handful of companies with a regional or national presence. Taco John’s and Sierra Trading Post, both in Cheyenne, are privately held. Cloud Peak Energy in Gillette and U.S. Energy Corp. (NASDAQ: USEG) in Riverton are Wyoming’s only publicly traded companies.
Wyoming’s mineral commodities include coal, natural gas, coalbed methane, crude oil, uranium, and trona.
Transportation:
Interstate 25 enters the state south of Cheyenne and runs north, intersecting Interstate 80 immediately west of Cheyenne. It passes through Casper and ends at Interstate 90 near Buffalo. Interstate 80 crosses the Utah border west of Evanston and runs east through the southern third of the state, passing through Cheyenne before entering Nebraska near Pine Bluffs. Interstate 90 comes into Wyoming near Parkman and cuts through the northeastern part of the state. It serves Gillette and enters South Dakota east of Sundance.
There are a wide range of US Highways serving Wyoming as well.
The largest airport in Wyoming is Jackson Hole Airport, with over 500 employees.
Other commercial airports in Wyoming, including those served through the Essential Air Service program, are:
Casper CPR Casper/Natrona County International Airport
Cody COD Yellowstone Regional Airport
Gillette GCC Gillette-Campbell County Airport
Laramie LAR Laramie Regional Airport
Rock Springs RKS Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport
Cheyenne CYS Cheyenne Regional Airport
Riverton RIW Riverton Regional Airport
Sheridan SHR Sheridan County Airport
Wyoming is one of only two states, the other being South Dakota, in the 48 contiguous states not served by Amtrak.
Flag of Wyoming:
The flag of the state of Wyoming consists of the silhouette of an American bison. The red symbolizes the Native Americans and the blood of pioneers who gave their lives. The white is a symbol of purity and uprightness. The blue is the color of the skies and distant mountains. It is also a symbol of fidelity, justice and virility. The bison represents the local fauna, while the seal on it symbolizes the custom of branding livestock.
In 1916 the Wyoming Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) ran a contest inviting the public to submit possible designs for a Wyoming flag. A prize of $20 was offered to the winner, and the DAR received a total of 37 entries. They chose a drawing by Verna Keays, a recent graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago. On January 31, 1917, Governor Robert D. Carey signed the state flag bill into law and the bison flag was officially adopted.
DAR regent Grace Raymond Hebard, a professor at the University of Wyoming and noted suffragist and scholar, contributed suggestions for changes after the design had been accepted. In Keays’ original design, the one approved by Wyoming’s legislature, the bison faces toward the fly, symbolizing its former freedom to roam the plains of Wyoming. Hebard thought that if the bison were to face toward the hoist, the design would be more balanced, animals generally face the hoist on flags, as they would the wind. In the end, all Wyoming flags from the first batch produced onward showed the bison facing the hoist, although this change was never officially adopted by the Wyoming legislature.