Wyoming at 125: Our Place in the West

Author Bill Sniffin says, “It was always my intention to cause Wyoming’s 180 million year history to come alive in his newest coffee table book about the state.”  Called Wyoming at 125, Our Place in the West, the book attempts to show what Wyoming looked like over its long history. In every nook and cranny, in every city and town, on every mountain and deep in every valley – well, Wyoming is full of great historical stories. Genesis of this new coffee table book was from the state of Wyoming when a couple of state agencies asked Sniffin to do a coffee table book to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Wyoming’s statehood. As readers of his two earlier coffee table books know, he loves to show off Wyoming with the best photography and most colorful photography possible. But if you want to publish outstanding color images, how do you do that with 100-year old, fuzzy, black and white photos? The great pioneer photographers, J. E. Stimson, Charles Belden, William Henry Jackson, Frank Meyers