we are still experiencing the benefits from edward ivins on. we are proud of the fact that he decided to do what was right for our community. if it was not for the union pacific railroad, laramie would probably not be here. all of this land was given to the union pacific. door -- wethe front have a little thing i like to do. we have the doorknob to the original front door, which is a doorknob.s, beautiful it came to us in a box in the mail. may 5 years ago with a note from a guy who was a student at the .niversity of laramie he stole the doorknob. i take them into the foyer. intoirst important stop is jane's drawing room. the intention was that is where she would do informal entertainment for her lady friends. and i go into the smoking room. i draw the contrast between the nice bright light drawing room and the more somber smoking room. the dining room is nice because in the dining room, we have nice artifacts that belong to the ivinson we have this beautiful stemware. that was punch bowl given to their son-in-law who ran his bank for a while i

india they're not given weapons to fight in syria because india is softer with a sort of islam molly ivins where many immediately warriors and given weapons. to keep up a constant flow.

we are in the mansion that edward ivins and bill in

. >> were in the mansion that edward ivins built in 1892 and it is now the home of the laramie plains museum, and it's been restored because for about ten years it was vacant and people broke in, vandalize the building and it's been a very long and fruitful effort to make into this wonderful museum that we have here at highlights that only the ivinsons family but historical issues from the past and laramie, wyoming, as well. so edward ivinson was abolished and places was born on the island of st. croix in the caribbean. he lived there for seven years because father moved from northwestern england to manage a sugarcane plantation and you want up in new york city in about 1852. while he was there he met a young woman. he's 23, she was 16. the rant away to way to jersey city to get married and eventually they like about a young folks moved west to make the payment fortune and eventually wound up in laramie, wyoming, in 1868. in 1868. the family been living in memphis tennessee and he decided to move the family the california. the way he got, the way thought he would get to california is

we are here showcasing a defense of the suffrage act. .e have the exhibit set up jane and edward ivins and and their adopted daughter maggie. this home is the largest artifact we have and their place of residence after 24 years when they first came to laramie. they arrived on that first train when there was nothing here, made their fortunes and built this house 24 years later. we have salvaged his house, and in here, we tell laramie's history like this suffrage act. we have to simmer 10, 18 and 69. the wyoming territorial legislature passing this law that disgruntled a lot of people. why is that happening in the west? why is it happening in wyoming territory? at the time, we had just become wyoming territory from dakota territory. we were here, and the legislature, one of the reasons they did it, we believe, is they needed to attract women into the west. this was a place of adventurers and cowboys and railroad workers hammering out a railroad. we have the central pacific coming in from california, the union pacific, and we had crazy living conditions out here, and the legislature wante