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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“Mr. Wyoming,” historian T.A. Larson Mines Wyoming politics and culture
Professor Larson’s chief contribution to the history profession would be as an educator and author. Though he did publish a few scholarly papers in his long career at UW (1938 – 1975), he is chiefly remembered today for the 16,000 students he taught in Wyoming history classes at UW and for his five books on Wyoming history.