. The Pacific tourist . n- soon to bear the ironhorse were laid past the town on the 9th day ofMay, 18118, and on the day following, the firsttrain arrived and discharged its freight. Lara-mie maintained tin- character <if all these west- who were respectable, and who desired to do alegitimate business could not endure for a longtime, the presence and rascalities of these bordercharacters. There being no law in force, thenext best thing was a resort to lynch was the experience of Laramie. Laramie is now an orderly, well-governed city,where, the rights of person and property are re-
. The Pacific tourist . n- soon to bear the ironhorse were laid past the town on the 9th day ofMay, 18118, and on the day following, the firsttrain arrived and discharged its freight. Lara-mie maintained tin- character <if all these west- who were respectable, and who desired to do alegitimate business could not endure for a longtime, the presence and rascalities of these bordercharacters. There being no law in force, thenext best thing was a resort to lynch was the experience of Laramie. Laramie is now an orderly, well-governed city,where, the rights of person and property are re-spected, and forcibly reminds one of the quiettowns in the East. All saloons and other placesof like character, are closed on the Sabbath, thechurches are well attended, and the schools are lili-erally patronized. It is one of the most attrac-tive towns on the line of the Union Pacificroad, and offers many advantages to those whodesire, for any reason, a change of location. In addition to other public institutions else-. EARLY MORNING SCENE era towns in the early days of their same class of human beings that had popu-lated and depopulated North Platte, Julesburg,Cheyenne, and other places, lived and flourishedhere until the next move was made. They weregamblers, thieves, prostitutes, murderers — badmen and women of every calling and descriptionunder the heavens, and from almost every nation-ality on the globe—and when they could preyupon no one else, would, as a matter of course,prey upon each other. The worst that has everb3en written of these characters does not depictthe whole truth ; they were, in many cases, out-laws from the East—fled to escape the conse-quences of crimes committed there, and eachman was a law unto himself. Armed to the veryteeth, it was simply a word and a shot, andmany times the shot came first. Of course those ON THE LARAMIE PLAINS. where mentioned, Laramie has the location ofthe territorial penitentiary, a small wing ofwhich is al
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