American Heritage Center

Colonel Murray C. Bernays of the U.S. War Department played an instrumental role in establishing the framework for the Nuremberg Trials, following World War II.

Bicycling has been a popular pastime in Laramie for more than a century. Elmer Lovejoy, who owned Laramie’s bike shop, also helped found the Laramie Bicycle Club.

Life in Mexico in the time of Pancho Villa was adventurous and dangerous for Americans. Martin Gaines, who worked for the American Smelting and Refining Company in Mexico during that period came face to face with Pancho Villa and his revolutionaries.

Tom Wall worked in the Salt Creek Oil Field when it boomed during the beginning of the twentieth century. What had been a rough and tumble patchwork of oil claims became the neat, tidy town of Midwest.

Philip Babcock was the editor of the third edition of Merriam-Webster’s New International Dictionary. At the time of publication, the dictionary was controversial due to widespread disagreements about the role of the dictionary and the evolution of language.

Calamity Jane was a larger than life character who roamed the Wild West, acting as a military scout and bullwhacker. She is said to have been the first western woman in the Black Hills during the gold rush days.

Russell Brines was a war correspondent who was interned at the Santo Tomas camp in the Philippines during World War II.

Preservation of the Arapaho language and culture is the focus on the Arapaho Language and Culture camp, held each summer near Little Wind River.

Laura Ingalls Wilder is best known for the Little House series of books she wrote describing life as a pioneer family in United States in the 1870s and 80s.

Edward Ivinson, one of Laramie’s early businessmen and an influential leader, came West in 1867 to open a dry goods store.