![]() ![]() Click to enlarge.īorn around 1827, Hayford obtained a medical degree from the University of Michigan and was also approved to practice law. The paper lasted until 1895 when it finally folded as a weekly.īy 1875, the front page of James Hayford’s Laramie Daily Sentinel offered seven columns of advertising and one column of musings. Gates moved from Cheyenne to Laramie in May 1869 to take over a new paper, the Laramie Daily Sentinel. The New York state native Hayford and his printing partner John E. ![]() ![]() Slack of the Cheyenne Daily Leader, wrote “We never knew a newspaper man … more a master of ridicule or sarcasm … the longer we knew him the more we appreciated his fearless advocacy of what he believed to be right.” In a 1902 eulogy for the 75-year old Hayford, rival newspaper editor, E.A. “He could sling more mud with a teaspoon than I could with a scoop shovel.” So said a colleague of Laramie’s early newspaper editor, Dr. ![]()
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