LARAMIE  , a

city and the county-seat of Albany county, Wyoming, U.S.A., on the Laramie river, 57 M. by rail N.W. of Cheyenne . Pop . (1900) 8207, of whom 128o were foreign-born; (1905).7601; (1910) 8237 . It is served by the Union Pacific and the Laramie, Hahn's Peak & Pacific railways, the latter extending from Laramie to Centennial (30 m.) . The city is situated on the Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7165 ft., and is hemmed in on three sides by picturesque mountains . It has a public library, a United States Government building and hospitals, and is the seat of the university of Wyoming and of a Protestant Episcopal missionary bishopric . There is a state fish hatchery in the vicinity . The university (part of the public school system of the state) was founded in 1886, was opened in 1887, and embraces a College of Liberal Arts and Graduate School, a Normal School, a College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, an Agricultural Experiment Station (established by a Federal appropriation), a College of Engineering, a School of Music, a Preparatory School and a Summer School . Laramie is a supply and distributing centre for a live-stock raising and mining region—particularly coal mining, though gold, silver, copper and iron are also found . The Union Pacific Railroad Company has machine shops, repair shops and rolling mills at Laramie, and, a short distance S. of the city, ice-houses and a tie-preserving plant . The manufactures include glass, leather, flour, plaster and pressed brick, the brick being made from shale obtained in the vicinity . The municipality owns and operates the water-works; the water is obtained from large springs about 21 M. distant .

Laramie was settled in 1868, by

people largely from New England, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, and was named in honour of Jacques Laramie, a French fur trader . It was first chartered as a city in 1868 by the legislature of Dakota, and was rechartered by the legislature of Wyoming in 1873 .