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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Pioneer Trabing Brothers Build A Wyoming Empire

When the young Trabing brothers, Augustus and Charles, arrived in Laramie in the summer of 1868, they were already experienced merchants, ranchers and freighters. 

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