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Fort Laramie National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Fort Laramie National Historic Site lârˈəmē [key], 833 acres (337 hectares), SE Wyo.; est. 1938. Founded in 1834 as a fur-trading post by William Sublette and Robert Campbell, it was bought by the...

Laramie

(Encyclopedia)Laramie lârˈəmē [key], city (1990 pop. 26,687), seat of Albany co., SE Wyo., on the Laramie River; inc. 1874. It is a commercial, railroad, and industrial center for a livestock and timber region....

Fort Davis National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Fort Davis National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table); Davis Mountains. ...

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