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Wyoming cattle related letters

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Description: Group of letters and ephemera relating to Wyoming and the cattle and livestock industry. Collection includes letters from R.A. Moody to C.A. Lombard, on letterhead of Union Pacific Rail Road House, relating to the cattle industry; letters from Frank Brainard to H.B. Ijams, on his letterhead as Wyoming Inspector, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, relating to regulating the cattle trade; letter from Edward F. Richard to R.A. Moody dated Cheyenne, October 10, 1873 regarding financial matters; printed election broadside/ticket (which states "No Importation of Pinkerton's Blacklegs"); four payment vouchers for the Cheyenne & Black Hills Stage and Express Company.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1873-1896.
Call number: mssWyoming
Provenance: Purchased through Nick Aretakis Americana at PBA Galleries, Sale 599, Lot 295, October 2016.

English emigrant woman letters to sister

Manuscripts

These letters, written to Mary's sister back in Wisconsin, are written from Cheyenne, Wyoming and Denver, Colorado. The first letter describes a trip from Cheyenne to Estes Park, Colorado and back by wagon. In the following three letters, Mary talks about her life and the conditions in Wyoming and various family and domestic matters.

mssHM 83131-83134

Cheyenne. 1876

Visual Materials

Cheyenne, Wyoming. View of town and railroad station and roundhouse. Union Pacific Railroad train cars are on tracks.

photCL 292 (4)

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Union Cattle Company records

Manuscripts

Nineteen letters primarily from Frank Sturgis and Thomas Sturgis to Henry Lee Higginson, discussing their mutual investments. Letters detail the financial aspects of the Union Cattle Company, challenges for the range cattle industry such as harsh weather conditions and a depressed market, and the formation of the American Cattle Trust. A few letters were written by Union Cattle Company receiver Frederick Voorhees, who informs Higginson of a fire at the company's feeding plant. Also included are undated financial documents and a printed copy of an 1887 shareholders report by Thomas Sturgis.

mssUCC

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Union Cattle Company records

Manuscripts

mssUCC

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W. H. Wheeler letters to his father

Manuscripts

Three autograph letters written from Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming Territory; the letters were written over a three month period in 1871. W. H. Wheeler wrote to his father with great enthusiasm about the many opportunities for prosperity he sees surrounding him in Wyoming and Utah territories. Although especially enthusiastic about the possibilities of outfitting miners hoping to exploit the region's mineral wealth, he also describes in detail the fabulous returns being made through the sales of mining claims in Utah as well as the steadily rising values of building lots in Evanston, Wyoming. Wheeler worked in the city's Union Pacific office, but was anxious to quit his desk job and to become a Western businessman in mining and outfitting ventures; in the letters, Wheeler requests money from his father for these ventures while extolling the many opportunities of realizing great profits. Two of the letters are written on Union Pacific stationary or forms and all three are in fragile condition with tearing along the folds.

mssHM 84048

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Photographs related to W. S. Schuyler's service in the American Indian Wars

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Consists of five cabinet cards. Photographs are of American military forces, indigenous peoples and livestock. They were taken at Fort Reno, Wyoming, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Fort Elliott, Texas, and Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Members of Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Comanche Nation are depicted, along with J. M. M. Blunt. A photograph of cattle carries the Hash Knife brand. Some identified photographers include Snell & Co., Wellington, Kansas and H. P. Robinson, Fort Sill.

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