Named for John A. Campbell, first Territorial Governor of Wyoming. Organized in 1911, Campbell County occupies the upper valleys of the Belle Fourche and the Little Powder Rivers. County seat is in Gillette. (WPA)
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Campbell
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More Reading:
"Campbell County is a Reality and Gillette is its County Seat" Gillette News, July 14, 1911, Page 1.; Campbell County : the slumbering giant. Bragg, Bill. [Gillette, Wyo. : Holiday Inn], c1978.; History of Campbell County. Campbell County High School English Class of 1954. [Gillette, Wyo.] : Campbell County High School, [1954].; Only a cow country, at one time : Wyoming counties of Crook, Weston, and Campbell, 1875 to 1951. Nelson, Dick J. San Diego, Calif. : Mae M. Nelson, c1951 Pioneer Printers.
