Hiram M. Hook[2] (c. 1830/1831 – 1868) was an American politician who served as the first Mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, while it was still a part of the Dakota Territory with a population of around 600 people.
[4] Hook served as the stage station manager in Dogtown, Nebraska, nine miles east of Fort Kearny.
[6] In Cheyenne he operated a general store called the Great Western Corral.
[7] On August 7, 1867, a meeting was organized in Cheyenne for the purpose of creating a provisional municipal government.
[1] Hook, Jesse Ewing, and several other silver prospectors traveled on the Green River in three boats during the summer of 1868.