Founded in 1867 and made the state capital of Wyoming just two years later, Cheyenne was an outfitting point for the nearby Black Hills goldfields and, with the arrival of the railroad, a shipping point for cattle from Texas. Populated by gunmen, gamblers, and other undesirables, Cheyenne quickly developed a reputation as a rough and tumble frontier town. It's a reputation undercut somewhat by this vista of a suburban white picket fence photographed in 1876.

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