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
The Laramie River, as it flows past the site of old Fort Laramie
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
Laramie River
…is a tributary of the North Platte River, approximately 280 miles (450 km) long, in the U.S. states of Colorado and Wyoming. The river was named for Jacques La Ramie, a fur trapper who visited the area in the early 19th century. Laramie County, Wyoming, the city of Laramie, and other geographical entities in the…
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