ON THIS DAY IN 1890, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The new state of Wyoming has become famous already for its natural scenery. The greater portion of Wyoming is a rolling tableland, with here and there a short, abrupt range of mountains, or group of hills rather, rising up out of an illimitable, arid and treeless plain. The eastern portion slopes away to the Black hills of South Dakota, which form a black wall along the south half of the eastern boundary, between Wyoming and South Dakota. If you stand on some of the highest peaks of the Black