Laramie’s Living History — People

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.

The people who comprise the Albany County community come from several social strata, ethnicities, and races.

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The wide-ranging Otto Gramm of Laramie He turns up everywhere you look

Otto Gramm (1846-1927) pops up in so many aspects of Laramie’s history, it seems that there must have been ten men by that name. Did one 81-year-old really do all that in a lifetime? But most of what has been written is true—verified by newspapers and other primary sources.

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