Edward N. Wentworth papers, 1806-1959 (bulk 1925-1954).

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Edward N. Wentworth papers, 1806-1959 (bulk 1925-1954).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27302693

The collection contains the manuscript, research notes and other materials for "America's Sheep Trails"; correspondence, most of which are responses from sheep growers and associations regarding the sheep industry and pioneer sheep growers; the manuscript and research notes for an unpublished history of the horse entitled "Horse, Saddle and Wheels"; book reviews; speeches; miscellaneous materials relating to his work for Armour and Company; book reviews; miscellaneous photographs and slides; and lithographs, watercolors and sketches depicting western scenes and activities. Also contained in the collection are research notes, maps, and the published transcript by Wentworth of a journal kept by Gorham Gates Kimball, who drove a herd of sheep to Idaho from California in 1865.

3.4 cubic ft. (8 boxes) + artifacts + art + maps.

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7242124

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Armour and Company

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Chicago, IL. From the description of Handbills and pamphlets, ca.1890-1920. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122488908 ...

Wentworth, Edward N. (Edward Norris), 1887-1959

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Edward N. Wentworth (1887-1959) was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and earned an M.S. degree from Iowa State College in 1909 in animal husbandry. He was a professor at Iowa State College and Kansas State College before serving as a captain in the U.S. Army Field Artillery in World War I. He remained in the reserve until 1950, gaining the rank of colonel. He joined the meat packing firm of Armour and Company in 1919 and was director of its livestock bureau in Chicago from 1923 to 1954. In 1954 he ...

Kimball, Gorham Gates, 1838-1904

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