" Leigh Freeman moved his printing press to Laramie and set about publishing the Frontier Index there. In its first issue, May 5 [1868], the paper predicted that Laramie would soon rival Chicago. When it was only two weeks old, the Index boasted, “Laramie already contains a population of two thousand inhabitants. "

― Stephen E. Ambrose , Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69