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Excerpt from Annals of Wyoming, Vol. 71: The Wyoming History Journal; Winter, 1999 Verna Keays, who designed the Wyoming state flag, was my mother. Many people affectionately called her, Wyoming's Betsy Ross. Her parents, pioneers in Wyoming, spent most of their lives in Buffalo. Elizabeth Parke Keays, Verna's paternal grand mother, was a widow whose husband, a jeweler and Silversmith, died in New Mexico, where he had gone hoping to be cured of tuberculosis when her son, Wilbur, was four years old. After his death, she conducted a small private school, educating Wilbur and several other children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.