Governor Dan Thornton papers 1953-1976.

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Governor Dan Thornton papers 1953-1976.

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This folder contains archivally photocopied clippings and other printed materials by and about two-time Colorado Governor Thornton, compiled by the Paddock family at the Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera.

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Boulder Daily Camera.

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Camera 11 June 1962: "Virtually all records have been photographed by a process called microfilming... this work has been done in cooperation with the Colorado State Archives and Records Service." From the description of Boulder County (Colo.) Clerk and Recorder, clippings 1943-1969. 1943-1969. (Boulder Public Library). WorldCat record id: 711986598 Born 12 February 1824 in a log cabin in New York, Chauncey Stokes began helping his father in the carpentry trade at age 16. As...

Bulletin Free Press (Denver, Colo.)

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Thornton, Dan, 1911-1976

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Daniel Thornton was born and raised in Tex. in 1911. He attended Texas Technological University for two years and earned his degree at UCLA. Thornton began ranching in 1937 in Springerville, Ariz. He later established the White Mountain Hereford Ranch in the early 1940s when he and his wife, Jessie Willock, moved to Gunnison, Colo. Here they established the Thornton Ranch where he developed the Triumphant Type Hereford. Thornton sold two of his bulls for a record $50,000 each in the 1945 Nationa...