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Lander is a city in and the county seat of Fremont County, Wyoming, located in central Wyoming along the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River, just south of the Wind River Indian Reservation.

The 2020 census counted 7,546 people in Lander, up from 7,487 in 2010, and counted 3,135 households in the city in 2020.

Lander was previously known as Pushroot, Old Camp Brown, and Fort Augur, and its present name was chosen in 1875 in reference to General Frederick W. Lander, a transcontinental explorer who surveyed the Oregon Trail's Lander Cutoff.

The town of Lander was officially incorporated on July 17, 1890.

On October 1, 1906, Lander became the westward terminus of the Cowboy Line of the Chicago and North Western Railway, giving rise to the slogan where rails end and trails begin, and rail service to Lander was abandoned in 1972.

Lander is a tourism center with several nearby guest ranches.

Wyoming Catholic College and the National Outdoor Leadership School are both based in Lander.

Sinks Canyon State Park is close to Lander, where the Popo Agie River disappears into a sinkhole and reemerges downstream at a spot called the rise.

Wyoming's first oil well was completed in 1883 at Dallas Dome, several miles southeast of the future town-site near today's U.S. Route 287.

Elk migrate out of the Wind River Range into the lowlands near Lander, arriving in early winter and frequently staying at least through calving season in the spring.