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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1963
Page
10
In 1870 South Pass Wyoming housed about 6,000 fortune seekers amid mud streets and a sprawling boom town scene. The town boasted 14 saloons two breweries two doctors a bank and a church but an inadequate jail underlined its rough frontier character.
South Pass once a bustling mining hub on the Oregon trails declines to a few residents. Esther Hobart Morris, a pioneer of women’s suffrage, married in the camp and later led Wyoming to grant women voting rights. The Wyoming legislature appropriates 50 000 dollars to buy the decaying buildings and 80 acres to create a state park and lure tourists.
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