Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil became the first reigning monarch to visit Wyoming. He was visiting the United States as part of the Centennial celebrations that year. He probably didn't appreciate it, however, as his trip into the state by train was at night and he was asleep when a reporter attempted to visit him in Cheyenne.
A popular and progressive monarch, he was none the less overthrown by republicans in 1889 in a revolution he did not resist. He went into exile in Europe for the last two years of his life, dying in 1891.
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