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    The Ivinson Mansion, now the Laramie Plains Museum, was built in 1892 in Laramie, Wyoming by Jane and Edward Ivinson. Designed by architect Walter E....
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    Union Pacific passenger depot in Laramie was donated to the Laramie Plains Museum in 1985, and then to the Laramie Railroad Depot Association in 2009...
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    of Laramie". Retrieved 2015-07-06 "Ivinson Family History", Laramie Plains Museum Association.[1] Retrieved 2015-07-06 "Saving the Mansion", Laramie Plains...
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  • Dakota Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, Oklahoma Laramie Plains Museum, Laramie, Wyoming Great Plains section...
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    Fort Laramie (/ˈlærəmi/; founded as Fort William and known for a while as Fort John) was a significant 19th-century trading post, diplomatic site, and...
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  • Platte River and dropping down onto the Laramie Plains." General William Henry Ashley had crossed the Laramie Plains in 1825, and John C. Fremont had explored...
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    preserve and restore the heritage of the Frontier crossroads area (Eastern Laramie County, Wyoming) for future generations, through displays and education...
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    Interior Plains, which include the mixed grass prairie, the tallgrass prairie between the Great Lakes and Appalachian Plateau, and the Taiga Plains and Boreal...
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    The Laramie Formation is a geologic formation of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) age, named by Clarence King in 1876 for exposures in northeastern...
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    The Treaty of Fort Laramie (also the Sioux Treaty of 1868) is an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota...
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  • Wyoming House for Historic Women (category Buildings and structures in Laramie, Wyoming)
    Historic Women, also known as Wyoming Women's History House is a museum in downtown Laramie, Wyoming, United States, which celebrates the achievements of...
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  • Retrieved 29 September 2015. "Laramie Peak Museum". Travel Wyoming. Retrieved 31 December 2017. "Facebook site". Laramie Peak Museum. Retrieved 29 September...
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    The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 was signed on September 17, 1851 between United States treaty commissioners and representatives of the Cheyenne, Sioux...
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  • University of Wyoming (UW) is a public land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming, United States. It was founded in March 1886, four years before...
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    Lakota people (category Plains tribes)
    had encroached on their lands. The Fort Laramie Treaty acknowledged Lakota sovereignty over the Great Plains in exchange for free passage for European...
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  • State Museum established. 1896 - Cheyenne Business College established. 1897 - Cheyenne Frontier Days begin. 1900 - Population: 14,087. 1902 - Laramie County...
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    Crow people (category Plains tribes)
    the Lakota. The Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868 with the United States confirmed the Lakota control over all the high plains from the Black Hills of the Dakotas...
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    recorded few to no bison on the Plains by the late 1840s. The lack of bison, in turn, caused hunger and starvation among the Plains American Indians. By 1853...
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    Preliminary Historical Outline for the Northwest Plains, still a standard work in the field of North American Plains Indian society. The University of Chicago...
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    Kiowa (category Plains tribes)
    the Southern Plains Tribes, Carnegie Public Schools, 1972 The Kiowa, by U.S. Department of the Interior, Southern Plains Indian Museum, 1994 William...
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    Cheyenne (category Plains tribes)
    on their territories. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 affirmed the Cheyenne and Arapaho territory on the Great Plains between the North Platte River and...
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    Sioux (category Plains tribes)
    1850s, the Lakota were known as the most powerful tribe on the Plains. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 was signed on September 17, 1851, between U.S. treaty...
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    Geological Museum, Laramie University of Wyoming Insect Museum, Laramie Washakie Museum & Cultural Center, Worland Weidner Wildlife Museum, Rock Springs...
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    fur trappers, and this spurred the establishment of forts, such as Fort Laramie, that today serve as population centers. The Transcontinental Railroad...
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    (March 13, 2017). Fort Laramie: Military Bastion of the High Plains. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806158594. "Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868". Avalon...
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    1 m) granite pedestal, at the Summit Rest Area on Interstate 80 east of Laramie, Wyoming. Russin originally erected the sculpture in 1959 nearby on Sherman...
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    in 1876. The land was pledged to the Sioux Nation in the Treaty of Fort Laramie, but a few years later the United States illegally seized the land and...
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    the US Army on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later. After signing the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), Red Cloud led his...
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    by the Laramie Portland Cement plant hauling limestone from the quarry southwest of Laramie, Wyoming until 1965, then to Colorado Railroad Museum for display...
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    Treaty of Fort Laramie, the United States acknowledged the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes control, in the Colorado area, of the Eastern Plains between North...
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