Andrew Springs Gillespie papers circa 1895-1965

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Andrew Springs Gillespie papers circa 1895-1965

http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah00175.xml

The collection contains correspondence, some of it with local historian and ranch owner Edith Blunk, manuscripts, an oral history interview on audiocassette, artifacts and photographs documenting ranch, rodeo, and cowboy life in southern Wyoming in the early 1900s.

cubic ft. (3 boxes)

eng,

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6405115

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Swan Land and Cattle Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cc4t48 (corporateBody)

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...

Blunk, Edith Williams.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cs8vmm (person)

Gillespie, Andrew Springs

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63046jx (person)

A. S. “Bud” Gillespie was an Albany County, Wyoming, rancher and co-author with R. H. Burns and Willing G. Richardson of the book Wyoming’s Pioneer Ranches, which was published in 1955. Gillespie was born in 1887, the son of Samuel W. and Maggie H. (White) Gillespie. Bud Gillespie worked as a cowboy for the Swan Land and Cattle Company and gained fame as a rodeo performer during the early 1900s. He took over operation of the Gillespie ranch on the Laramie River in 1914 and bought th...

Horn, Tom, 1860-1903

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g0mgp (person)