Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Fort Laramie came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Fort Laramie in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fort Laramie. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Fort Laramie data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fort Laramie:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

North American Railroad Atlas - Mountain Plains
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2000
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for Wyoming (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

Fort Laramie is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

We found Fort Laramie in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Fort Laramie for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Fort Laramie. See our Misc Page for Fort Laramie for more information.