Laramie’s Living History — People
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.
The people who comprise the Albany County community come from several social strata, ethnicities, and races.
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Charismatic lawman N.K. Boswell; He brought law and order to Laramie
New Hampshire native Nathaniel Kimball Boswell (1836-1921) was in the right place at the right time to make a name for himself in the raw frontier of Wyoming Territory in 1867.
Simon Durlacher, men’s wear merchant whose name lives on
There aren’t many downtown merchants in Laramie who put their names in stone atop their buildings, and even fewer where the name remains after a century.