Sinners & Saints: Tales of Old Laramie City

Sinners & Saints: Tales of Old Laramie City

By Gladys B. Beery

Meet the Sinners and the Saints of historic Laramie City, Wyoming—from the end-of-track gang hanged by vigilantes to prohibition-era moonshiners:

• Asa Moyer, one of several who met his death by rope
• Katie Trabing, a girl traded for a sack of flour
• Bronco Sam, a Black cowboy hero and murderer
• Nettie Stewart, a prostitute with friends in high places
• Martha Symons-Bois, the world’s first lady bailiff
• William Crout, who had so many wives he lost count
• Jane Ivinson, who set the social standards
• Suzy Parker, a savvy Black madam
• Elias Kerr, said to have turned to stone in his grave
• Luther, a ghost who watches Laramie from a window
• B.S. Thomson, a storyteller who earned his initials
• Minnie Wurl, murdered while tending the cows

And more!

•978-0-931271-23-6 • trade paper • photos • 282 pp • index • $12.95 ORDER NOW

Sinners & Saints: Tales of Old Laramie City

By Gladys B. Beery

"Beery’s natural storytelling skills . . . and her historic insights . . . are joined in Sinners & Saints. . . . [A] compelling blend of her own thoughts and the recorded words of the characters she presents."
•• Walter Edens, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming

Gladys B. Beery

Gladys B. Beery was born in northeastern Nebraska. At the age of two weeks, she moved with her parents to Montana. Later the family moved to northeastern Colorado, then to central Nebraska where she met her future husband, Lloyd Beery. In 1956 the Beerys moved, with their three children, to Laramie, Wyoming.

During the years when she worked in the offices of the Albany County Engineer and County Clerk and Recorder, she became interested in the history of Wyoming and the city of Laramie. This interest brought about a series of stories on the historic homes of Laramie which was published in the Laramie Daily Boomerang and its supplement The Picket Pen.

She was the author of Mule Woman, Front Streets of Laramie, and Sinners and Saints: Tales of Old Laramie City.