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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“Mr. Wyoming,” historian T.A. Larson Mines Wyoming politics and culture
Professor Larson’s chief contribution to the history profession would be as an educator and author. Though he did publish a few scholarly papers in his long career at UW (1938 – 1975), he is chiefly remembered today for the 16,000 students he taught in Wyoming history classes at UW and for his five books on Wyoming history.
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.
Peter and Mary Louise Hanson; They looked to the past & future
Sometimes a married couple becomes well known because one of them is an important person in the life of a town. But in the case of Peter and Mary Louise Hanson, both made significant contributions. Not the least of which is the preservation of their home in the University Neighborhood Historic District of Laramie
Ruth Southworth Brown and Cecil Rigby Nussbaum: A student and a faculty wife reminisce about UW in the 1920s
In the mid-1980s, two women who had a close association with the University of Wyoming (UW) were persuaded to record their memories of the 1920s in Laramie.