It was formed by impounding the Laramie River.
In 1820 or 1821, he left for the season to go trapping along what is now known as the Laramie River.
One rancher along the Laramie River got his cowboys to herd the woollies over a precipice.
They then rode far west, beyond the Laramie River, to a remote spot where a Mexican was tending twelve hundred sheep.
On its eastern flank it is drained by the Laramie River, another tributary of the North Platte.
The Laramie River is well known as an excellent brown trout fishery.
One of his most painterly pictures is of men fishing at the source of the Laramie River beside trees with foliage that looks engraved.
But because of its strategic location, bordered to the south and east by the Laramie River, the fort was largely safe from Indians.
It flows through Carey Lake then northeast to a confluence with the Laramie River.
The ranch is situated in a bend of the Little Laramie River with five contributing buildings and supporting ranch structures.