Laramie, Wyoming
Laramie’s growth was slow but steady. It attracted attention in 1870 as the site of the first “mixed” jury trial in the United States, when six women served on a grand jury. Its lawlessness further declined with the establishment, in 1873, of the Wyoming Territorial Prison. Humorist Bill Nye lived in Laramie; The Boomerang, a newspaper that he helped found in 1881, is still published (as the Laramie Daily Boomerang).