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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Martha Salisbury Boswell: a typical pioneer’s story inferred through that of her husband
Like most of the women who wound up in the new town of Laramie, Martha Salisbury Boswell didn’t do anything spectacular, she stayed in the background. But what she endured may be typical of many a young wife on the frontier.
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.