Larry Larom was the owner of a famous dude ranch southwest of Cody. He had long been supportive of the Cody Stampede Rodeo and was one of its first directors. Mary Robinson, the director of the McCracken Research Library, said he must have recognized that the rodeo was an important element in attracting dudes to […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2017 From “Thorofare” to Destination – the South Fork of the Shoshone River, part 1 By Jeremy M. Johnston, PhD There was a reason that William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody located his beloved TE Ranch along the South Fork of the Shoshone River: It’s a beautiful area, steeped in […]
From 1922 to 1934, there was a college preparatory school for boys down the south fork in Cody. The Valley Ranch Boarding School was founded by Larry Larom and Winthrop Brooks. The two men were from wealthy New York families. Larom visited Cody a couple of times, and eventually decided he wanted to become a […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2010 Black and white photograph of children dressed as “dudes” at Valley Ranch New Yorker L.H. “Larry” Larom first visited Jim and “Buckskin” Jenny McLaughlin’s Valley Home Ranch southwest of Cody, Wyoming, in 1910. Larom and his Princeton classmate, Winthrop Brooks of Brooks Brothers, purchased the property […]