Editing Burns, Wyoming (section)

==History==
Originally, Burns was a [[siding (rail)|siding]] with a water tank on the [[Union Pacific Railroad]].<ref name=bowman>{{cite book|last1=Bowman|first1=J. R.|editor1-last=Shearer|editor1-first=Frederick E.|title=The Pacific tourist. J.R. Bowman's illustrated transcontinental guide of travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean|date=1882|publisher=J.R. Bowman|location=New York|page=61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbsUAAAAYAAJ&dq=The%20Pacific%20tourist.%20J.R.%20Bowman's%20illustrated%20transcontinental%20guide%20of%20travel%20from%20the%20Atlantic%20to%20the%20Pacific%20Ocean&pg=PA61v|accessdate=May 16, 2018|oclc=752667534}}</ref>  The community of Burns was conceived and marketed as a German-Lutheran settlement named New Berlin<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wyomingplaces.pbworks.com/w/page/12714697/Burns%2520(Laramie)|title=Wyoming Places / Burns (Laramie)|website=Wyomingplaces.pbworks.com|access-date=September 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923025238/http://wyomingplaces.pbworks.com/w/page/12714697/Burns%2520(Laramie)|archive-date=September 23, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> and initially platted as the Town of Luther in 1907.<ref>{{cite web|title=Plat of Luther, Laramie County, Wyoming|url=https://maps.laramiecounty.com/mapserver/plats/BNS%2001.pdf|date=November 19, 1907|website=Laramie County Interactive Map Portal|publisher=Laramie County, Wyoming|accessdate=May 16, 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630221329/https://maps.laramiecounty.com/mapserver/plats/BNS%2001.pdf|archivedate=June 30, 2016}}</ref> The original name was given by settlers of German Ancestry in honor of [[Martin Luther]].
Burns was the center of the Golden Prairie District promoted by the [[James R. Carpenter]]'s Federal Land & Securities Co. formed in 1905.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/lincburns.html|title=Lincon Highway-Wyoming|website=Wyomingtalesandtrails.com|accessdate=January 9, 2018}}</ref>