Lander

Lander

Lander, city, seat (1884) of Fremont county, west-central Wyoming, U.S., on the Popo Agie River, east of the Wind River Range, at an elevation of 5,360 feet (1,634 metres). Part of the traditional territory of the Shoshone people, the area was settled in the 1870s around Forts Augur and Brown and named for Colonel F.W. Lander. Ranching, lumber, oil wells, coal mines, iron ore, and uranium are its economic assets. To the north is the Wind River Indian Reservation (Shoshone and Arapaho) with the grave of Sacagawea (a Shoshone woman who acted as a guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition). Sinks Canyon State Park and the Shoshone National Forest are immediately southwest. South Pass, an important landmark on the Oregon Trail, lies 32 miles (51 km) southwest. The city sponsors the annual One-Shot Antelope Hunt. Inc. 1890. Pop. (2000) 6,867; (2010) 7,487.