In this state, Democrats led by William Bright proposed a bill that they assumed John Campbell would veto, making him look bad, in response to a proclamation of Black rights by Joseph M. Carey. Justice of the peace Esther Hobart Morris left this state’s ghost town of South Pass City. A transfer of land in this state orchestrated by Edmund Denby helped propel the election of its governor William Ross; after dying, Ross was succeeded by his wife Nellie, the nation’s first female governor. “Cattle Kate” Watson helped start this state’s Johnson County War. Senator Cynthia Lumiss is from this state, whose first territorial legislature granted women the right to vote in 1869, which is why it’s called the “Equality State.” For 10 points, name this least-populous US state whose capital is Cheyenne. ■END■
ANSWER: Wyoming [or WY] (William Ross was elected in the aftermath of the Teapot Dome scandal.)
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