History: The McKinney Strip Contest

When Wyoming was a very new state, it was granted statehood on July 10 of 1890, there was a fight over who owned a strip of land, known as the McKinney Strip, which both the city of Buffalo and the Department of the Interior claimed as their own. Buffalo wanted it to expand the town, and Dept. of th

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