[lar-uh-mee] 
| 1. | a city in SE Wyoming. 24,410. |
| 2. | Fort. Fort Laramie. |
| 3. | a river in N Colorado and SE Wyoming, flowing NNE to the North Platte River. 216 mi. (348 km) long. |
| Lar·a·mie (lār'ə-mē) A city of southeast Wyoming west-northwest of Cheyenne. Settled in 1868 with the coming of railroad, it is the seat of the University of Wyoming (founded 1886). Population: 25,700. |
Laramie
city, seat (1868) of Albany county, southeastern Wyoming, U.S., on the Laramie River, 49 miles (79 km) west of Cheyenne, surrounded by divisions of the Medicine Bow National Forest (headquartered at Laramie). It was founded in 1868 when several thousand persons made a settlement-a jumble of tents and shanties on the treeless plain between the Laramie and Medicine Bow ranges-during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. Most of the builders moved on, leaving a handful to build a permanent city from a heretofore lawless settlement
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