Laramie Peak
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Laramie Peak Is the highest and most prominent peak in the Laramie Range of Wyoming. With a peak elevation of Script error: No such module "convert".,[1] it is the only peak in the Laramie Range to exceed an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert".. It can be seen from great distances from both sides of the Laramie Range including from around 100 miles (160 km) away at the top of the Scotts Bluff National Monument in Nebraska and in the Wyoming towns of Wheatland, Douglas, Rock River, and immediately outside the cities of Laramie and Cheyenne.
Name
The mountain was named for Jacques La Ramee, a French-Canadian fur trader who lived in the area in the 1820s and who was found dead at the Laramie River.[2]
History
Laramie Peak was an important landmark for the settlers on the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail. After reaching Scotts Bluff the top of the mountain was visible at the horizon. For more than one week the mountain guided the people on the track and signaled the end of the relatively flat part of the way, reaching the Rocky Mountains.[3]
Mark Twain wrote in his 1871 book Roughing It about the hill: "We passed Fort Laramie in the night, and on the seventh morning out we found ourselves in the Black Hills, with Laramie Peak at our elbow (apparently) looming vast and solitary -- a deep, dark, rich indigo blue in hue, so portentously did the old colossus frown under his beetling brows of storm-cloud. He was thirty or forty miles away, in reality, but he only seemed removed a little beyond the low ridge at our right."[4]
Usage
A trail starting at the Friend Park Campground leads over a distance of about 5 Miles to the top of the hill. It rises from 7200 feet elevation to 10276 feet. On top, several antennas, containers for transmitters and a helicopter platform are installed.
See also
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References
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". The Legendary Jacques La Ramee - An Interpretation of “Hearsay Evidence” of the Life and Death of Jacques LaRamee (engl.)
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Mark Twain, 1871, Roughing It, Chapter 9
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External links
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