Manuscripts
Wyoming cattle related letters
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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
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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.
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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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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
Visual Materials
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.
photPF 1214-1219
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Edward Clymer journal of an expedition in the Wyoming Territory
Manuscripts
Journal kept by Edward Clymer during his 1877 expedition to the Wyoming Territory with George B. Chittenden and Dr. F.M. Endlich. Provides an account of Clymer's westward travels by railroad and his arrival in Cheyenne in late May 1877. The diary subsequently traces the small expedition's movements in and around Salt Wells, Pacific Creek, Fort Stambaugh, the Sweetwater River, Rawlins, and Strawberry Creek. During this time they climbed Fremont Peak, shot mountain goats, encountered a grizzly bear, participated in a buffalo hunt, and discovered Indian relics. The diary also records Clymer's trip through Salt Lake City and return to Pennsylvania in September 1877, as well as entries from his life in Berks County through December 1877 (there are no entries for October).
mssHM 75050