La Barge, Wyoming

La Bargé is a town in Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States.

The town is named for Joseph Marie La Barge, Senior a French-Canadian voyageur turned fur trapper, mountain man, and steamboat operator, and father of the famed riverboat captain Joseph LaBarge.

He was born in L'Assomption, Quebec, on July 4, 1787, and came to the U.S. in 1808 canoeing to St. Louis, Missouri, where he met and married a woman of Spanish and French descent, Eulalie Becquette Alvarez-Hortiz.

His trapping days began at Cabanne's Trading Post in Nebraska Territory, and continued throughout the West during the 1830s and 1840s after his children were born.

Public education in the town of La Barge is provided by Sublette County School District #9.