Laramie’s Living History —
A Variety of Other Topics
A series of stories prepared for the Albany County Museum Coalition, an alliance of institutions that promote Laramie’s historic and cultural resources. This series originally appeared in the Laramie Boomerang.
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Mapping the Laramie Plains, Part II Third dimension captured at last
Methods had improved by the 1800s, when the young United States was acquiring large chunks of unknown territory. Maps by William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) and Charles Preuss (John C. Frémont's cartographer) added significantly to our geological knowledge. But they weren't perfect. Clark put today's Colorado too far north, thereby eliminating the Laramie Plains and much of southern Wyoming. Preuss's map was accurate for major features, but finer details could be unreliable, as we saw on the Laramie Plains.