Winnecook Ranch Company Records 1882-1999

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Winnecook Ranch Company Records 1882-1999

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The Winnecook Ranch Records consist of correspondence and materials produced by ranch management, employees, and stockholders such as corporate documents, work logs, and financial records. Also included are a series of topical newspaper clippings, ranch photographs, materials related to a published manuscript dealing with ranch history, and documents related to the General Manager Elwyn Dole's Heart E Ranch. This series also contains a selection of photocopied letters from the Stillman Berry papers held by the A. K. Smiley Library of Redlands, California.

5.6 linear feet

eng,

MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6371669

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Winnecook Ranch Company

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Winnecook Ranch was started by Ralph and Samuel Berry on the Musselshell River in 1880. Samuel immediately began putting up buildings to house them and Ralph's wife, Evie. In the meantime, Ralph traveled to Utah to purchase their first flock of Merino sheep. Two years later, Samuel sold his half of the venture which Ralph, in turn, traded to various resident ranch managers. In 1887, Evie gave birth to twin sons with only one, Samuel Stillman Berry, surviving. Stillman's frailty had ...

Berry, Ralph, 1850-1911

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Winnecook Ranch Company-Archives

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Winnecook Land and Livestock Company

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Berry, Evie

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Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984

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Dr. Samuel Stillman Berry was a U.S. marine zoologist who specialized in cephalopods. He received a B.S. (1909) from Stanford and his M.S. (1910) from Harvard. He then returned to Stanford for his Ph.D. work on cephalopods and got his doctorate in 1913. From 1913 until 1918, he worked as a librarian and research assistant at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research in La Jolla, California. He became a renowned malacologist, publishing 209 articles and establishing 401 mollusc taxa. Most o...

Dole, Elwyn

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