Laramie

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L0049950 (lăr′ə-mē) A city of southeast Wyoming west-northwest of Cheyenne. Settled in 1868 with the coming of the railroad, it is the seat of the University of Wyoming (founded 1886). The city is located on the Laramie River, which rises in northern Colorado and flows 350 km (215 mi) northeast through the Laramie Mountains, a section of the Rocky Mountains, to the North Platte River.

Lar•a•mie

(ˈlær ə mi)

n. a city in SE Wyoming. 24,410.

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Laramie - a university town in southeast WyomingEquality State, WY, Wyoming - a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east

Laramie

(lâr`əmē), city (1990 pop. 26,687), seat of Albany co., SE Wyo., on the Laramie River; inc. 1874. It is a commercial, railroad, and industrial center for a livestock and timber region. Laramie has railyards, sawmills, a cement factory, and meat-storage facilities. Other industries produce beverages, cabinets, and computer software. Tourism is an important economic activity; the city is surrounded by mountain ranges and many ski, hunting, and fishing areas. The city is the seat of the Univ. of Wyoming. Laramie was settled in 1868 with the arrival of the railroad and grew with the development of the surrounding ranch country and local mining enterprises. It is headquarters for the Medicine Bow National Forest. Nearby is the site of Fort Sanders, established in 1866 to protect the Overland TrailOverland Trail,
any of several trails of westward migration in the United States. The term is sometimes used to mean all the trails westward from the Missouri to the Pacific and sometimes for the central trails only.
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noun a university town in southeast Wyoming

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