Wright, Wyoming
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Wright is a town in Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,644 at the 2020 census.
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Wright Centennial Museum
Wright Town Hall
Cottonwood Elementary School
Black Thunder Coal Mine
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The Black Thunder Coal Mine is a surface coal mine in the U.S. state of Wyoming, located in the Powder River Basin which contains one of the largest deposits of coal in the world. In 2022, the mine pr
Wright, Wyoming
…homesteaders lured by the promise of free land. Official settlement began in the area in the early 1900s but boomed in the 1970s, with the creation of the Black Thunder Coal Mine, the largest mine in the Powder River Basin and most productive mine in the United States. The Wright family homesteaded the area in 1911 creating the…
"Ursa Major" dragline at Black Thunder Coal Mine, 2009
370-ton Coal Haul Truck at work, 2019