Jacques La Ramée
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Jacques La Ramée was a French-Canadian and Métis coureur des bois, frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, hunter, explorer, and mountain man who lived in what is now the U.S. state of Wyoming, having sett
Jacques La Ramée was a coureur des bois, believed similar in appearance to this woodcut by artist Arthur Heming
Jacques La Ramée organized a group of independent, free trappers, who set out in 1815 for the headwaters of the North Platte River in the United States Unorganized Territory of present-day Wyoming
Laramie River
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The Laramie River is a tributary of the North Platte River, approximately 280 miles long, in the U.S. states of Colorado and Wyoming. The river was named for Jacques La Ramie, a fur trapper who visite
Jacques La Ramée
…including La Ramee, Laramée, LaRamée, La Ramie, La Rami, La Remy, and Laramie. La Ramée is credited as an early explorer of what is now called the Laramie River of Wyoming and Colorado. The city of Laramie, Wyoming, with an Americanized spelling, was later named for him. Jacques La Ramée was born on June 8…
The Laramie River, as it flows past the site of old Fort Laramie