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The name, Wyoming, was made famous by the 1809 poem Gertrude of Wyoming by Thomas Campbell.

It derives from the Munsee name xwé:wamənk, meaning "at the big river flat", originally applied to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania.

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