Aviation View | Volume 1, Issue 2

124 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 NAL AIRPORT T ucked down into the southwest corner of Wyoming, Laramie is a city of adventure, with the Snowy Range Mountains to the west and the Medicine Bow National Forest to the east. This is cowboy country, and it has been ever since the stage first rolled through what was once the Dakota Territories. Laramie is named after Jacques Laramie, a French trapper who disappeared in the early 1820s in what is now called the Laramie Mountains. The city was founded in the mid-1860s as a tent city near the Overland Stage Line route, the Union Pacific portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and just north of Fort Sanders army post. Originally known as Brees Field, the Laramie Regional Airport traces its history back to 1934 and was named in honor of United States Army General Herbert J. Brees. P L A N , G R O W , A N D P R O S P E R