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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The Lynching of Joe Martin
August 29, 1904, witnessed an act of racial hatred in Laramie, Wyoming. A crowd of men broke into the county jail, seized and African American man and lynched him from a nearby streetlight pole.
Boomerang Editors Arrested—in 1919
Laramie Boomerang Editor Tracy S. McCracken and Manager F.M. Zimmers were arrested and charged with criminal libel on October 15, 1919.