Cheyenne is the capital of the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne, Wyoming Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Laramie County, Wyoming. In the year 1904, gang leader George Barrow ruthlessly murdered aging bounty hunter Jonah Hex in a saloon. Moments after unloading two shotgun shells into Jonah's chest, Barrow was shot by Sheriff Hank Crawford.