Editing Cokeville, Wyoming (section)

==History==
The Shoshone Indians were the first inhabitants of the area. The first Euro-American settler, Tilford Kutch, arrived in 1869.  In 1873, he opened a trading post and ran a ferry across Smiths Fork. After the arrival of the railroad in 1882, the town grew, and was incorporated in 1910.

The town was named for the coal found in the area.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23188|title= Profile for Cokeville, Wyoming, WY|publisher= ePodunk |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> Following the railroad, sheep ranching became more popular, reaching its peak in 1918, when Cokeville was informally called the "Sheep Capital of the World".

On May 16, 1986, former town marshal David Young and his wife Doris Young took 167 children and adults hostage during the [[Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis]]. The captives escaped after an improvised gasoline bomb exploded and both hostage takers died in a murder-suicide. 79 hostages were injured, many with serious burns.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c50c0569-aa7e-56ac-8e1e-42a9fd55f34a.html|title= 25 years after school bombing, Wyoming town remembers story of survival|publisher= The Billings Gazette |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref>