Wyoming proudly calls itself The Equality State because it was the first state to grant women the right to vote, way back in 1869 (pictured at the polls in Cheyenne) and long before the 19th Amendment gave the same right to women across the nation in 1920. It is sometimes known as 'The Cowboy State' too, something officials have recognized by adopting a cowboy on a bucking horse as the state symbol.

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