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750 WYOMING bers of miners are now (1876) flocking thither. The S. W. portion of the territory is drained by the Green river, the chief constituent of the Colorado of the West ; a small area on the N. W. border by the Snake ; and the rest by tribu- taries of the Missouri. The Big Horn (called in its upper course Wind river), Tongue, and Powder rivers, in order from the west, flow N. and join the Yellowstone in Montana. The Big Horn and Powder have important tributa- ries. In the N. E. corner is the Little Missouri, which flows N. E. through the S. E. corner of Montana, and joins the Missouri in Dakota. Further S. are the forks of the Cheyenne, which have an E. course into Dakota. S. of these is the North Platte, which rises in the Map of the Yellowstone National Park. North park in Colorado, flows N., and in Wy- oming receives the Medicine Bow river from the east and the Sweetwater (rising in the Wind River mountains) from the west, and then (S. of the centre of the territory) bends to the east and southeast and enters Nebraska. Near the Nebraska boundary it receives the Laramie river with its tributary, Chugwater creek, from the south, and Rawhide creek from the north. In the southeast are some streams that join the South Platte in Colorado. In the N. W. cor- ner of the territory is a tract more remarkable for natural curiosities than an equal area in any other portion of the globe, which might prop- erly be called the "Northern Wonderland," in contradistinction to a similar region in New Zealand known as the "Southern Wonder- land." It was first definitely brought to notice