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SIGN: Welcome to Laramie: Gateway to the Snowy Range Laramie Project, Matthew Shepard, Wyoming County, Laramie Wyoming, University Of Wyoming, Western Signs, Robert Fuller, James Drury, Virginia City

On October 6, 1998, two young men in Laramie, Wyoming, tricked University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard into thinking they would give him a ride home from the bar. Eighteen hours later, a cyclist found the gay student tied to a fence, beaten, burned, and comatose with a fractured skull. He initially mistook Shepard's limp frame for a scarecrow.

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Fort Morgan Colorado, Oregon Trail Pioneers, Atchison Kansas, Laramie Project, Wagon Trails, Transcontinental Railroad, Laramie Wyoming, Lincoln Highway, California Gold Rush

Pioneers, Wagons, and a 575 Mile Journey. The Overland Trail and Stagecoach Line was an alternate wagon route off the famous Oregon Trail. Pioneers crossed this area as they headed westward in the late 1800’s. The Overland Trail (also known as the Overland Stage Line) was a stagecoach and wagon trail in the American West during the 19th century. While portions of the route had been used by explorers and trappers since the 1820s, the Overland Trail was most heavily used in the 1860s as an…

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