Absaroka, The 49th State That wasn’t.

Why Angry Farmers in Depression Era Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming Wanted to Leave their states

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It was early 1935, and things were miserable in the United States. The soil had turned to dust, the banks had failed, and jobs were few and far between.

Talk of carving out a 49th state (Alaska and Hawaii had yet to join the Union) from northern Wyoming, southeastern Montana and western South Dakota first made the front page of local newspapers on March 2, 1935.

The world was going terribly wrong.. Although politicians in the would-be secessionist states had begrudgingly accepted Franklyn Roosevelt’s New Deal funds that promised material improvements, this money barely made it to the sparsely populated, isolated corners of the three states.

Discontent flared in Sheridan, Wyoming, a small town roughly halfway between Yellowstone National Park and Mount Rushmore, and nearly 300 miles from Cheyenne, the state capital.

Feeling helpless and ignored by their state government, frustrated farmers, ranchers and other Sheridan residents organized around the idea of secession: leaving Wyoming and allying with nearby communities to start their own state.

The state would be called Absaroka – a Crow Native American tribe word meaning large beaked bird – and Sheridan would be its capital. Supporters of the grassroots movement went about seeking other disaffected citizens into their project, attracting… 

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