This unit on Wyoming's early settlement and ethnic groups provides concepts, activities, stories, charts, and graphs for elementary school students. Concepts include the attraction Wyoming held for trappers; the major social, economic, and religious event called "The Rendezvous"; the different ethnic and religious groups that presently inhabit Wyoming; and the connection between population growth and energy-related industry. Students engage in mapping early settlement patterns, writing imaginary diaries of trappers or explorers, writing and producing a play on Wyoming pioneer life, displaying family antiques, preparing a pioneer meal for parents, and inviting ethnic/pioneer persons to visit the classroom. Reproducible materials include a vocabulary list, puzzles, directions for making a conestoga wagon out of tag board, and frontier recipes. Essays discuss blacks, Chinese, Mexican Americans, and the American cowboy in Wyoming. A list of resource persons and reproducible maps are also included. (KC)