By Luke Anderson
March 9, 2016
The Bath Stone Ranch outside Laramie is richly embedded in the history of America and the West. Henry Bath immigrated with his family to the United States from Germany in 1848. After twenty years in New York, Henry’s parents decided to follow the brand new Union Pacific railroad out west, although they did not actually travel west by train. Traveling by oxcart instead, they journeyed from the fall of 1867 to the summer of 1868 before they permanently settled in Laramie. Henry Bath was a prolific cabinet maker and built the town’s first frame building, the New York House, located on Front Street right by the railroad tracks. This hotel and saloon was infamously known for hosting the hanging of three men outside its entrance in October of 1868.
