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24th May, 2009 Cheyenne & Laramie 001
The treeless rolling hills around Cheyenne24th May, 2009 Cheyenne & Laramie
Drove over to Laramie today to visit some of my Cowboy heroes, they weren't home.
One of the first things you notice about the surrounding farmlands of Cheyenne is it's lack of trees, huge rolling farms (but no trees), this all changed as we headed to Laramie. Along the road they have huge timber barriers in the paddocks, these are there to prevent snow drifts coming down onto the road and in some cases there was still snow on the ground.
Laramie is a town of around 27 thousand people, we went out to the old Wyoming Territorial State Prison, well worth the visit, heaps of history here and one of the clients just happened to be the "Butch Cassidy" - he was in there for horse rustling (60 of them), got let out on good behaviour and went on to rob trains as we all know. The prison has been restored and has a good guide booklet, people put in there for theft of a couple of blankets for 4 years and others who committed murder who got 4 years, justice?
There is also the wardens house and the broom factory where prisoners
made 720 straw brooms a day + candles.
The highway to Laramie has a monument of Lincoln on it, worth a stop, commemorates the building of the coast to coast highway.
The area is steeped in History and is a sn
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