Laramie Peak
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Laramie Peak Is the highest and most prominent peak in the
Name
The mountain was named for
History
Laramie Peak was an important landmark for the settlers on the
Mark Twain wrote 1871 in his 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."[5]
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
References
- ^ a b "Laramie Peak, Wyoming". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
- National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-24. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) The Legendary Jacques La Ramee - An Interpretation of “Hearsay Evidence” of the Life and Death of Jacques LaRamee (engl.) - ^ "Laramie Peak". wyoshpo.state.wy.us. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ^ "Roughing It - Chapter IX". Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2010-02-21. Mark Twain, 1871, Roughing It, Chapter 9
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