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Laramie County became a county in the Wyoming Territory when the territorial government was formed in 1869.
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Aggradation and plantation: The Laramie River meander s across its floodplain in Albany County, Wyoming, 1949.
In 1911, Goshen and Platte Counties were formed from another part of Laramie County, and at that point the county achieved its current boundaries.
Selected hydrogeologic data for the High Plains aquifer in southwestern Laramie County, Wyoming, 1931-2006 Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1069.
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After ferrying across the Missouri River and establishing wagon trains near what became Omaha, Nebraska, the Mormons followed the northern bank of the Platte River in Nebraska to Fort Laramie in present day Wyoming.
Shepard became a first-year political science major at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and was chosen as the student representative for the Wyoming Environmental Council.
In 1848 a group of Cherokee crossed through the county following the North Fork of the Poudre to the Laramie Plains on their way to California along a route that became known as the Cherokee Trail.
In 2004, Laramie became the first city in Wyoming to prohibit smoking in enclosed workplaces, including bars, restaurants and private clubs.
After the buffalo hunting dried up Hanna made a round trip to Fort Laramie to buy seed and a plow, thereby becoming the first farmer to carve a furrow in what became Sheridan County.
Although it is often stated that certain trails began in certain cities on the Missouri River, emigrants following any of the three trails typically left from one of three " jumping off " points on the Missouri's Steamboat serviced river ports: Independence, Missouri or Saint Joseph, Missouri, or Council Bluffs, Iowa ( Once known as Kanesville, Iowa until 1852 ; after river dredging in the early 1850s, the latter town at the Missouri-Platte confluence became the most common departure point since it was close in proximity to the River Plattealong which the eastern trails ascend to South Pass above Fort Laramie ).
Ira became sheriff of the town of Laramie before receiving a commission in the Quartermaster Corps during the Spanish-American War.
The ranch later became known as the Red Mountain Ranch, and in 2004, the ranch was part of acquired by Larimer County and converted to open space as part of the Laramie Foothills Open Lands 2001 Master Plan.
In Cheyenne, Wyoming, Wild Bill Hickok became partners with Utter in the train, and in Fort Laramie, Wyoming, Calamity Jane also joined up.
In 1969 WyoTech ’ s Laramie campus became accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology, formerly known as NATTS, and through the years has received approval from 50 state governing authorities.
At the end of his exploration, Stansbury recommended the route from Fort Bridger in western Wyoming through Laramie Plains to the forks of the Platte ( just west of modern North Platte, Nebraska ), which later became part of the Overland Trail and Overland Stage Line.
The building of the railroad caused a boom in the valley population, with the establishment of " Laramie City ", which later became the site of the University of Wyoming.
The valley of the North Fork later became the route of the Union Pacific Railroad, and later of U. S. Highway 287 between Fort Collins and Laramie, Wyoming.
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The area of county was officially opened to white settlement following negotiations with the Cheyenne and Arapaho in the 1858 Treaty of Fort Laramie, by which time the area was part of the Nebraska Territory.
When Goshen County was created from part of the northern end of Laramie County in 1911, Torrington and Lingle competed for the title of county seat.
Laramie and Wyoming
Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O. Collins, suggesting that a site several miles farther down the river would make a good location for the fort.
* 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
Spenser was born in Laramie, Wyoming and is a Boston private eye in the mold of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, a smart-mouthed tough guy with a heart of gold.
* 1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
* September 6 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally since 1807.
) After the rail line's initial steep climb through the bluffs of west Omaha and out of the Missouri River Valley, the route followed the Platte River west through Nebraska, establishing many townships along the way ( Elkhorn, Grand Island, North Platte, Ogallala, Sidney, Nebraska ), the Colorado Territory ( Julesburg ), the Wyoming Territory ( Cheyenne, Laramie, Green River, Evanston ), the Utah Territory ( Ogden, Brigham City, Corinne ), and connecting with the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit.
Through Nebraska it followed the Great Platte River Road, cutting through Gothenburg, Nebraska and passing Courthouse Rock, Chimney Rock, and Scotts Bluff, clipping the edge of Colorado at Julesburg, Colorado, before arriving at Fort Laramie in Wyoming.
Those traveling south of the Platte crossed the South Platte River with its muddy and treacherous crossings using one of about three ferries ( in dry years it could sometimes be forded without a ferry ) before continuing up the North Platte River valley to Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming.
Those traveling south of the Platte crossed the South Platte fork at one of about three ferries ( in dry years it could be forded without a ferry ) before continuing up the North Platte River valley into present-day Wyoming heading to Fort Laramie.
Deming received a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Wyoming at Laramie ( 1921 ), an M. S.
Casper is located in east-central Wyoming at the foot of Casper Mountain, the north end of the Laramie Mountain Range, along the North Platte River.
North Platte was the western terminus of the Union Pacific Railway from the summer of 1867 until the next section to Laramie, Wyoming was opened the following summer.
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