Jacques La Ramee

Jacques La Rame , whose name appears in several spellings, including La Ramee, Larame, La Ramie, La Rami, La Remy, and Laramie, was a FrenchCanadian coureur des bois, frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, hunter, explorer, and mountain man who lived in what is now the U.S. state of Wyoming, having moved there in 1815. La Rame is credited as the first European to explore the Laramie River of Wyoming and Colorado. The city of Laramie, Wyoming, with an Americanized spelling, is named for him.

Jacques La Rame was born on June 8, 1784, in Qubec, British Canada, to Joseph Fissiau dit Larame and Jeanne Mondou. The North West Company registry cites two Larame brothers, Jacques and Joseph. A variant of the name La Rame first appeared in the West in 1798, referring to a canoe man who worked until 1804. This probable relative may have been Francois Larame, who is also listed in the registry of the company. This La Rame had several sons, who ventured west into Wyoming and Idaho. According to Joachim Fromhold, one of the sons was Jacques La Rami, for whom the Laramie River is named.

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