Albany County’s seat, Laramie, Wyoming, is just west of the state capital of Cheyenne on the Laramie River. It was settled in the mid 1800s where the Union Pacific was being built. It is also situated between two mountain ranges, the Laramie Range and the Snowy Range. It was named for French-Canadian trapper and fur trader Jacques LaRamie, who disappeared while trapping in the Laramie Mountains in the early 1800s, never to be seen again. It was founded as a tent city along the Overland Stage Line Route and part of the first transcontinental railroad and has been a rest stop for wagon trains bound for California, Oregon, and Utah, a military post, the Black Hills gold rush.
Regular Blogs
Jackrabbit Goes Down the Rabbit-Hole
Subtitled "Fear, Loathing and the Laramie Project," this blog is maintained by a former University of Wyoming student who was deeply affected by Matthew Sherpard's murder and writes about it.
http://www.jackrabbit-blog.blogspot.com/
This is a weblog which is dedicated things that go on in Laramie, such as the case of Matthew Shepard a decade before this blog was started and whether his murder had an impact on the community, whether people believe that the murder was actually over a drug deal gone wrong, and an accidental pub tour of the town, among other things.
http://laramieblog.blogspot.com
Wyoming Technical Institute Laramie
This weblog is about Laramie’s campus of the college, news about students and instructors, weather and cancellations, and various classes available.
http://www.wyotechlaramie.blogspot.com
