Wyoming was not even a territory in 1857 when 29-year-old Richard Henry Hamilton came west from Missouri to settle at Fort Bridger. He and his son, Charles Beal Hamilton, represent a four-generation cowboy legacy with their 2023 induction into the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Now it's all but a ghost town, but in Wyoming before statehood, William A. Carter established his namesake town in Uinta County. A cattle baron, merchant and politician, he became Wyoming's first millionaire.