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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Senator Warren sinks with Titanic!! (re-elected anyway) Breaking news, exclusive from Boomerang

On May 27, 1912, readers of the Laramie Daily Boomerang were shocked to learn that Wyoming’s powerful Senator F.E. Warren had gone down with the great ship Titanic. They already knew of the sinking. It had happened more than a month earlier, and the news traveled the world in less than a day. Why did it take so long for word of Warren’s spectacular demise to reach Wyoming?

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