Jacques La Ramee

Jacques La Ramée (sometimes Jacques La Remy ) was a French-Canadian trapper , fur trader , explorer, and mountain man who lived in what is now the state of Wyoming . Little is known about his life, but numerous places in Wyoming are named after him.

He appeared in Wyoming around 1815. Among other things, he founded a group of free trappers, the free trappers, and organized the free trapper rendezvous , an annual meeting of trappers in Wyoming. A similar meeting has been held in Missouri and Mississippi for many years . La Ramée led his group to the upper reaches of the North Platte River to hunt. In 1820 or 1821 he was alone on beaver hunting on what is now the Laramie River . When he did not show up for the trappers' meeting the next year, his group went out to look for him. There are various rumors about the result of this search. One version links his death to the Arapaho Indians living in the area . The body was found in a beaver dam on the Laramie River or was in his little trapper's hut near the river, murdered by Indians. The Indians, however, vigorously denied any connection with the death of La Ramée. Other sources claim that he was attacked and killed by a bear, and his body may not have been found.

La Ramée only became famous after his death; his friends named the river he had hunted after him. Various other places in Wyoming were later named after him, including the city of Laramie , Laramie County , the Army Base Fort Laramie and the city of Fort Laramie on the Laramie River, the Laramie Mountains on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains and the highest mountain in the Laramie Mountains , Laramie Peak . After the Laramie Mountains, in turn, a mountain building process, the Laramian mountain building , was named. The Historic Landmark Commission of Wyoming erected a memorial stone for La Ramée near Wheatland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Legendary Jacques La Ramee. (No longer available online.) Cameron Talbot Miller, Kathryn Bagby, Jeremy Rambo, archived from the original on June 24, 2010 ; accessed on February 24, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Jacques La Ramie. (No longer available online.) Platte County Public Library, archived from the original on February 25, 2010 ; accessed on February 24, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ J. McDermott: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West . In: In Leroy R. Hafen (ed.) Spokane, WA: The Arthru H. Clark Co. Band VI , 1968, p. 223-225 .
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ NPS Historical Handbook: Fort Laramie. National Park Service, accessed February 24, 2010 .