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==History== Laramie County was originally created in 1867 as a county within the [[Dakota Territory]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://historical-county.newberry.org/website/Wyoming/documents/WY_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm#Individual_County_Chronologies|title=Wyoming: Individual County Chronologies|access-date=September 1, 2011|last=Long|first=John H.|year=2006|work=Wyoming Atlas of Historical County Boundaries|publisher=The [[Newberry Library]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718043802/http://historical-county.newberry.org/website/Wyoming/documents/WY_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm#Individual_County_Chronologies|archive-date=July 18, 2011}}</ref> The county was named for [[Jacques La Ramee]], a [[French-Canadian]] [[fur-trader]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Urbanek|first=Mae|title=Wyoming Place Names|publisher=Mountain Press Pub. Co.|location=Missoula MT|year=1988|isbn=0-87842-204-8}}</ref> In 1867, a portion of Laramie County was annexed to create [[Sweetwater County, Wyoming|Sweetwater County]]; in 1868; further annexations occurred to create [[Albany County, Wyoming|Albany County]] and [[Carbon County, Wyoming|Carbon County]]. Laramie County became a county in the [[Wyoming Territory]] when the territorial government was formed in 1869. [[Crook County, Wyoming|Crook County]] was created with land ceded by Laramie County in 1875. In 1888, [[Converse County, Wyoming|Converse County]] was formed from a portion of Laramie County. In 1911, [[Goshen County, Wyoming|Goshen]] and [[Platte County, Wyoming|Platte]] Counties were formed from parts of Laramie County, giving the county its current boundaries. The county's early economy was based on agriculture and livestock raising. The present-day Wyoming Stock Growers Association<ref>Osgood, Ernest Staples. The Day of the Cattleman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929. Print. pp. 120-121</ref> dates from that era. Other types of animal husbandry also occurred.<ref name=WH>{{cite web|last=Herman|first= Marguerite|title=Laramie County WY|work= Wyoming State Historical Society|access-date=April 17, 2014|url=http://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/laramie-county-wyoming}}</ref> Some of the settlers in early Laramie County were foreign immigrants; for example, [[Burns, Wyoming|Burns]] was largely settled by German immigrants.<ref name=WH/>
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