A Wyoming landscape--a "hole", a fertile, watered widened valley in a mountain range.Β A hunting ground for Native Americans, fur trapper's paradise and Rendezvous point, and a rancher's best grazing land. On July 10, 1890 Wyoming, the place where I grew up, was admitted to the Union as the 44th state. Β It is a big, square, empty placeβat least if you are looking for people. Β It is the tenth largest state by area, but fiftieth in population, the Bureau of Census estimated 581,813 folks lived there this year, hardly changed over the last five years and most of them clustered in small cities along the route of the Union Pacific Railroad/U.S. Highway 30/Interstate 80 in the south, the oil city of Casper in the middle and the boom/bus...