[Vigilanteman]

Thanks for adding that factoid. FWIW, I was born in the Great State of Wyoming, which is arguably the best run State in the Union.

[Verginius Rufus]

According to the Wikipedia article on the Battle of Wyoming, Thomas Campbell published a poem on the massacre, "Gertrude of Wyoming," in 1809, which helped keep the memory of the massacre alive.

One of the other names proposed was Lincoln, but that was rejected in part because till then no state had been named for a President (and they expected that the territorial name would be retained when it became a state). Lincoln was also proposed at one point as a name for what became North Dakota.