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5 unusual facts about ''Laramie''


Alex Cord

Ben Sanford is one of the original settlers of the Laramie area and is called a "Mountain Man."

KPAH

KPAH-LP, a low-power television station (channel 24) licensed to Laramie, Wyoming, United States

Lloyd Nolan

On October 2, 1962, Nolan appeared again on Laramie in the episode "War Hero" as former Union Army General George Barton, who arrives in Laramie as a potential candidate for President of the United States.

Peter Whitney

Beyer accidentally kills his wife in a fit of rage and runs into Laramie, Wyoming, to escape the wrath of her pursuing brother.

Richard S. Prather

He donated his papers to the Richard S. Prather Manuscript Collection at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie, Wyoming.


Agathaumas

They were discovered by Fielding Bradford Meek and H.M. Bannister while they were looking for fossil shells in the Lance Formation (then Laramie Formation) near the Black Butte and Bitter Creek.

Colin M. Simpson

An uncle, Pete Simpson, served in the Wyoming House and is a retired administrator at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

Emily Susan Rapp

Rapp was raised in Laramie, Wyoming; Kearney, Nebraska; and Denver, Colorado; by her father, a Lutheran pastor, and her mother, a school nurse.

Fetterman Fight

On November 25, 1866, Carrington was ordered by his superior, General Philip St. George Cooke at Fort Laramie to take the offensive against the Indians in response to their "murderous and insulting attacks".

Fort Laramie National Historic Site

The river was named “Laramie” in his honor, and the name would later be given to the Laramie Mountains, the fort, and the towns of Laramie, Wyoming and Fort Laramie, Wyoming.

The earliest surviving photograph of Fort Laramie, taken in 1858 by Samuel C. Mills, shows the remains of the old adobe walled fur trade fort (Fort John) flanked by a cluster of scattered wood and adobe buildings around the parade grounds.

In 1815 or 1816, Jacques La Ramee and a small group of fellow trappers settled in the area where Fort Laramie would later be located.

Harriet Elizabeth Byrd

Byrd graduated with a bachelor's degree in education from West Virginia State College, a historically black college in Institute, West Virginia in 1949, and returned to Wyoming in order to apply for a teaching job with the Laramie County School District, but was denied employment because of her race.

Henry J. Kaiser-class oiler

Patuxent, Laramie, and Rappahannock differ from the other 15 ships in having double hulls to meet the requirements of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.

Jacques La Ramee

A number of sites in Wyoming are named for him, including the Laramie River, the city of Laramie, Fort Laramie, Laramie Peak, and Laramie County, Wyoming.

John W. Meldrum

John W. Meldrum did not travel to Yellowstone until July 1894 making his way via train, coach, wagon and horseback from Laramie via Salt Lake City, Henry's Lake and the Madison River.

Kathie Browne

Browne appeared in many other television series such as Sheriff of Cochise, Laramie, Whispering Smith, Redigo, Star Trek, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Man from Blackhawk, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Rawhide.

KCWY-DT

Licensed to Casper, it station also airs its programing on six low-powered satellites: KSWY-LP channel 29 in Sheridan, KCHY-LP channel 13 in Cheyenne, K14LK channel 14 in Laramie and K28HL-D channel 28 in Riverton.

Kevin Hagen

Hagen guest starred seven times on Gunsmoke, six times on The Big Valley, five times each on Bonanza, Laramie, and Have Gun - Will Travel, four appearances on Mannix and The Time Tunnel, and three appearances on Perry Mason, two of them in 1965: as murderer Jacob Leonard in "The Case of the Gambling Lady," and Samuel Carleton in "The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein."

KKHI

KHAT, a radio station (1210 AM) licensed to Laramie, Wyoming, United States, which held the call letters previously.

KKRR

KIMX, a radio station (96.7 FM) licensed to Laramie, Wyoming, United States, which held the call sign KKRR from November 1999 to November 2001

Laramie Peak

Laramie Peak was an important landmark for the settlers on the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail.

The mountain was named for Jacques La Ramee, a French-Canadian fur trader who lived in the area in the 1820s and who was found dead at the Laramie River.

May Gorslin Preston Slosson

May Preston Slosson organized a series of Sunday afternoon lectures for the prisoners at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Laramie, to be given by University of Wyoming professors.

Mormon Trail

While at Fort Laramie, the vanguard company was joined by members of the Mormon Battalion, who had been excused due to illness and sent to winter in Pueblo, Colorado, and a group of Church members from Mississippi.

No Fog West Theater Company

Through their approach to theater and attention received from The Laramie Project, No Fog West's board of directors met with theater professionals from around the country, including Philip Himberg from Sundance Theater and Nancy Borgenicht, co-creater of Saturday's Voyeur, who guided them in the planning of their second production, a summer 2008 tour of Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans.

North American Cordillera

It is named for the Laramie Mountains of eastern Wyoming (in turn named for Jacques La Ramee, a trapper who disappeared in the Laramie Mountains in 1820 and was never heard from again).

North Platte Project

Near Fort Laramie the Whalen Diversion Dam diverts water into Fort Laramie Canal and Interstate Canal which distribute water to farms in Wyoming and Nebraska.

Overland Trail

General William Henry Ashley had crossed the Laramie Plains in 1825, John C. Fremont camped near Elk Mountain in 1843 and miners and trappers heading to California used the Cherokee Trail in the late 1840s.

In 1851 U.S. Army Topographical Engineer Captain Howard Stansbury returning east from an expedition to the Salt Lake Valley described a route from Fort Bridger via the Bitter Creek valley and Laramie Plains to the North Platte River.

Owen Wister Review

The journal was established in 1978 and named for Owen Wister, who set the first modern western novel, The Virginian, not far from Laramie in the town of Medicine Bow.

Red Cloud's War

On June 13, however, with the worst possible timing, Colonel Henry B. Carrington commanding the 18th Infantry, arrived at Laramie with the two battalions of the regiment (approximately 1,300 men in 16 companies) and construction supplies.

Robert J. Wilke

In 1961, Wilke appeared as Gil Fletcher, a corrupt marshal in Billings, Montana, in the episode "The Fatal Step" of NBC's Laramie.


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