Laramie’s Living History —
A Variety of Other Topics
A series of stories prepared for the Albany County Museum Coalition, an alliance of institutions that promote Laramie’s historic and cultural resources. This series originally appeared in the Laramie Boomerang.
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Prohibition–an experiment gone wrong in Albany County and nationwide
A Wyoming Constitutional amendment prohibiting alcohol went into effect on June 30, 1919. About six months later the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution became effective. In 15 years of Prohibition, Wyoming’s most heinous crime of the entire era happened in Albany County.