Wyoming Stock Growers Association records, 1857-1987.

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Wyoming Stock Growers Association records, 1857-1987.

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WSGA materials include correspondence (1870-1944); administrative records including minutes, legal documents, correspondence, membership records, committee records, and annual convention records (1874-1985); financial records (1874-1982); brand books, roundup records and inspection and shipping records (1868-1978); Wyoming's Cow-Belles records and correspondence (1940-1972); Junior Wyoming Stock Growers Association records (1954-1973); WSGA publications including the periodical "Cow Country"; photographs (1857-1981); an oil painting commemorating the founding of the WSGA; and artifacts. Papers of two WSGA executive secretaries, Thomas Sturgis (1881-1898) and Russell Thorp (1860-1968), contain correspondence, photographs, subject files, scrapbooks, speeches and miscellaneous other materials. Collection also includes Cheyenne Club correspondence, membership records, financial records and other materials (1880-1947); Johnson County War materials, including correspondence, articles, and journals (1891-1939); American National Cattlemen's Association materials, chiefly printed (1905-1974); and subject files related to the western livestock industry and Wyoming and western history; and periodicals related to the livestock industry.

196.89 cubic ft. (308 boxes) + 9 folders + artifacts.

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7331592

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Cheyenne Club.

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Sturgis, Thomas, 1846-1914

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Wyoming Stock Growers' Association

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The Wyoming Stock Growers Association was organized in 1872 to advance and protect the interest of the state's livestock producers. From the guide to the Wyoming Stock Growers Association records, 1884, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) The Stock Association of Laramie County was organized in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, in 1872 to combat cattle rustlers operating in the area. By 1879, it had been renamed the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and...

Junior Wyoming Stock Growers Association.

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Thorp, Russell.

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American National Cattlemen's Association

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Wyoming's Cow-Belles

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