Wiggins family papers, 1960.

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Wiggins family papers, 1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83334843

Collection contains photocopies of four 1960 letters written by Ricker Van Metre (3 to Mrs. Lewis Wiggins and 1 to Harvey L. Wyatt), in which Van Metre describes his recollections of Lewis N. Wiggins, a Massachusetts hotel and tavern owner who lived with his rancher uncle Jack Wiggins on the Rocking Chair Ranch (founded by Jack Wiggins) for a time, then was later a frequent guest of the Van Metre family in Wyoming. Collection also contains photocopies of three photographs: 2 of Lewis N. Wiggins' father Charles Boothe Wiggins (with brief notes describing his activities in Wyoming as a farmer and Yellowstone Park guide) and one unidentified man on a bucking horse labelled "Dubois, Wyoming 1898".

0.10 cubic ft. (1 envelope)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8299266

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Rocking Chair Ranch.

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Wiggins, Jack.

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Van Metre, Ricker.

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Wiggins, Lewis N.

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Wiggins family.

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Wiggins, Charles Boothe.

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