The Code of the West is the heart of Wyoming's ethics. The legislature drew from the book the Cowboy Code written by James P. Owen. Wyoming became the first state in the nation to adopt a code of ethics into law in 2010. For this story, we took the Code of the West an put it to images of the region. Becuase these photos remind us why we have this code in the first place.

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