Swan Land and Cattle Company 1883-1947

Swan Land and Cattle Company

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Organized in the United Kingdom in 1883, the Swan Land and Cattle Company invested in the trade of land, sheep, cattle, and horses in the western United States, headquartering its American office in Chugwater, Wyoming. In 1926, the American board of directors abandoned the British charter and established the Swan Company, also headquartered in Chugwater, but chartered under the laws of the state of Delaware. The new company focused on sheep breeding and the production of wool, primarily purchasi...

Gillespie Andrew Springs fl. 1900

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Burns, Robert H. (Robert Homer), 1900-1973

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Wyoming native; head of the Wool Dept., University of Wyoming, Laramie. From the description of Papers, 1950, 1961. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13738611 Robert H. Burns was born August 23, 1900 on the Flag Ranch nine miles south of Laramie. He attended the University of Wyoming from 1916-1920 and then obtained his M.A. from Iowa State in 1921 and his Ph.D. in 1931 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He began teaching at the University of Wyoming in 1924 and...

Burns, Robert Homer; Gillespie, Andrew Springs

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The home ranch of the Swan Land and Cattle Company was sited at Chugwater, Wyoming. Its corporate headquarters were in Cheyenne. This large corporate cattle company, with between 50,000 and 80,000 livestock, at one time controlled an area of land greater than the size of the State of Connecticut. In the 1870s and 1880s, this and other very large ranches grew out of the realisation that cattle could be wintered on the northern plains of America. Speculative investors were promised a ...