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Cheyenne’s Sesquicentennial: Celebrations from July to August 2017

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The “Magic City on the Plains,” Cheyenne was formally incorporated on August 8, 1867 as a tent city built to accommodate workers building the transcontinental railroad. Within just a few years the railroad and cattle industries had propelled it, for … Continue reading

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