Wyoming Wool Growers Association records

Wyoming Wool Growers Association records, 1918-2006

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Wyoming Wool Growers Association
Title: Wyoming Wool Growers Association records
Dates: 1918-2006 (inclusive)
Date of CollectionDate of Collection
Quantity: 36.63 cubic ft. (72 boxes)
Collection Number: 01350
Summary: Records of this association of Wyoming sheep ranchers, which was founded to promote the interests of the sheep industry in Wyoming.
Repository: American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions: There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
Languages: English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The Wyoming Wool Growers Association was founded in 1905 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with the purpose of promoting the sheep industry in Wyoming.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection consists of subject files in alphabetical order, which contain information on sheep ranching, wool imports, marketing, prices and legislation, grazing rights, annual conventions, the Wyoming Agricultural Council, the National Wool Growers Association, and other topics. Also included are minutes of WWGA meetings, records of membership, photographs, a scrapbook, and bound volumes of the monthly newsletter "The Wyoming Woolgrower".

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Wyoming Wool Growers Association Records, Collection Number 01350, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by the Wyoming Wool Growers Association at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

The collection was received from Albert H. Gordon and the Wyoming Wool Growers Association from 1964-2016.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

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Container(s)	Description
Box
1	Abstract of Testimomy (Forest Service vs. Moroni A. Smith and Ray Smith)
	Access Forest Service - Devil's Tower:
Box
60	Bear Lodge Cattle Co. - Devil's Tower Hearing	1991
1	Advertising
1	Agricultural Research Administration
1	American Farm Bureau Federation
1	American Meat Institute
1	American National Livestock Association
1	Ammunition and Protein Feeds
1	Senators and Congressmen Ammunition
1	Analysis of the Utilization of Lamb in Restaurants, Hotels, and Railroad Dining Cars
	Animal Damage Control:
Box
62	Animal Damage Control Materials	1994-1997
62	Testimony to House Subcommittee Regarding Animal Damage Control Program	1994
62	Testimony on ADC - Thomas	1994
62	Animal Damage Control	1993
62	Legal Expenses - ADC Appeal	1992
62	Pinedale ADC Plan	1994
62	Vernal, Utah	1993
62	ADC - Legal	1992-1993
62	Legal - Humane Society Idaho ASI	1993
62	Coyotes	1993
62	Animal Damage Control Correspondence	1996
62	An Authentic and Verified Sampling of Photographs and Quotations Depicting Predation in the State of Wyoming	1971-1972
65	Coyotes	1975-1987
1	Annual Conventions	1918-1919
2	Annual Conventions	1920-1921, 1927, 1944, 1946
3	Annual Conventions	1922, 1924-1925
4	Annual Conventions	1928-1931
5	Annual Conventions	1935-1938
6	Annual Conventions	1939-1941, 1943
7	Annual Conventions	1944-1947, 1951, 1955
60	Appeals - Permits:
Box
60	Appeals	1991
60	Grazing Permit - Status	undated
7	Armour and Company
8	Army Orders
65	Average Annual Range Improvement Cost	1984
8	Commonwealth of Australia All Correspondence
8	Australian Wool
8	Bank Statements
9	Barrett, Frank A.
9	Basque Sheepherders
9	Blending
9	Blue Book
9	Bombing Range
9	Boston and National Wool Trade Associations
9	Boston Wool Trade
10	Boston Wool Trade Association
10	Botany Worsted Mills
10	Brock, J. Elmer
10	Brock, V. Elmer
60	BLM (Bureau of Land Management) - Legal:
Box
60	Legal - AZ	1993
60	Acquisition of Private Lands	1992
60	Catron County (NM)	1990
60	Legal - Environmental Quality Council - PRBRC - "Coal Lawsuit"	1991-1992
64	BLM - Section 3/Section 15	undated
10	Bureau of Standards
11	C.C.C.
11	California Wool Growers Association
11	Ceiling Prices O.P.A.
11	Census of Wyoming
11	Central Shippers Advisory Board
11	Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co./Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Co.
11	Colorado Wool Growers Association
11	Commissioner of Public Lands
12	Commissioner of Public Lands - Court Decisions
12	Congressional Record	1950
65	Conservation Speech Material	1984
12	Consumption of Lamb
12	Cook, Robert A. B.
12	Cooper, Thomas
65	Court Cases	1984
12	Cost of Production
12	Cost of Production (sheep losses)
12	Culling Sheep
13	Definite Plan Report	May, 1951
13	Department of Economics and Statistics of the Wool Bureau, Inc.
13	Devereaux, H. J.
14	Devereaux, H. J.
14	Dieter Bookbindery
14	Employment Service
14	Everybody's Talking About Rayon
15	Farm Credit Administration
	Federal Lands:
Box
60	Federal Lands	undated
60	Access	1987-1982
60	Sales	1991
60	Largest Permittees - FS/BLM - Federal Land Statistics	1991
15	Federal Register and Congressional Record Clippings
15	Federal Trade Commission
15	Fitzpatrick, Howard
15	Fitzpatrick, Frank
15	Flitner, Howard
15	Food Distribution Administration
64	Forest and Grassland	1989-1992
15	Forest Service Committee	1943
	Forest Service - Legal:
Box
60	American Heritage Trust Act of 1989	1989
60	FS - Legal	1989
60	Forest Service - Receipts	1992
	Forest Service - Regulations:
Box
60	Appeals - Regs	1990-1992
60	Mission/Statistics	1992
15	Forstmann
16	Forstmann Woolen Company
17	Forstmann, Curt E. - Forstmann Woolen Company
17	Freight Rates and Emergency Legislation
18	Game
18	Game and Fish
18	Game Section 15 Committee	1943
18	General Land Office - G. P. Howell
18	General Land Office - Washington
18	General Land Office Miscellaneous
18	General Letters	1950-1951
19	General Letters	1951-1953
20	General Letters	1957
20	Geophysical Permits
20	Glendo Project
20	Gordon, Robert
	Grazing:
Box
61	Grazing Fees - Groups Against	1991-1992
61	Groups Supporting	undated
61	Holistic Grazing Savoury Method	1987
61	Public Lands Grazing Fee - White Paper	undated
61	Grazing: Alternatives for Grazing Fee Debate	1991
20	Grazing Bulletin
	1992 Grazing Fee:
Box
61	Edmondson/Synar Campaign	1992
61	Grazing Fee Proposals	1991
61	Grazing Fee Issue/Federal Lands	1991
60	Grazing Fees/Omnibus Range Bill:
Box
60	Grazing Fee Lawsuit	1983-1986
60	Omnibus Range Bill - Redistribution of Fees	1984
	Grazing Fees:
Box
61	Fair Market Value	undated
65	Grazing Fees	1984
65	Grazing Fees (PLC)	1983-1984
	Grazing Lands:
Box
61	Canada - Grazing Fee Lands	1992
60	Grazing - Legal:
Box
60	Grazing Legal	1990-1992
60	National Rangelands Grazing System Act	1989
60	PRIA - Public Rangelands Improvement Act	1978-1992
61 and 65	Grazing - Public Lands	1990
20	Grazing Service
20	Grieve, Robert
20	Griffith, Vernon
20	Guild, Charles F.
	H20 - Legal:
Box
61	Sierra Club vs. Block	1984
61	Clean Water Act	1990-1992
61	H20 Hearings - State	1990
61	404 Permits	1990
61	Water Law	undated
61	Wyoming Water Legislation	1984-1985
21	Hadsell, Kleber H.
21	Harrison, William H.
21	Harrison, William Henry
21	Hay, John W. Jr.
21	Hay, Leonard W.
21	Heinbaugh
21	Hesse, George
21	Hill, John A. Fund
21	History of Wyoming, by I. S. Bartlett
21	Hopkins (2)	1950
21	House Committee on Public Lands, Hearing at Rawlins
22	House of Representatives - Other States
22	Hunt, Lester C.
22	Idaho Wool Growers Association
61	Incentive Based Grazing Fee	1992
22	Institute of American Meat Packers
22	Insurance on Wool
22	Internal Revenue
22	International Wool Secretariat
22	Iron Fireman Company
22	Izaak Walton League
22A	Jackson Hole - Bills and Committee Reports Laws
22A	Jackson Hole National Monument
22A	Johnson County Wool Growers Association
22A	Johnston, Alexander
22A	Joint Livestock Commission
22A	Jones, Casey	1950
22A	Jones, Durham
22A	Josendal, Harold
23	King Brothers Company
23	Kyne, William
23	Lamb Advertising Campaign
23	Lamb Contracts Uniform
23	Lamb Feeders Association
23	Lamb Marketing Committee	1943
23	Lamb, Sheep, and Wool Prices
23	Legislation - Bills, National and State, etc.
23	Legislative Committee - National
23	Lent, Harold
67	Letters on State Land Issue	1988
23	Logan-Walter Bill
23	Livestock and Sanitary Board
24	Livestock Trails
24	Lukens, S. C.
24	Macfie, William
24	Magagna, E. V.
24	Make It Yourself With Wool, cont.
63	Maps	undated
68	Member and Address Tags	undated
24	Moncreiffe, Malcolm - Big Horn, Wyoming
24	Marquiss, R. B.
24	Material
24	Maryland, Herman
24	McBride, A. J.
24	McCarran Investigations
24	McMicken, A. R.
24	Mead, Keith
25	Meeting of WWGA	July 20, 1927
25	Members of the Association
25	Membership and Finance Committee
25	Membership Letters
25	Merrion and Wilkins
25	Minutes of Meeting
25	Miscellaneous
25	Montana Wool Growers Association
25-28	Monthly Business Review
29	Moore, Leroy
29	Munro, Kincaid, and Edgehill
29	Nadasdy, Carl
29	National Association of Wool Manufacturers
29	National Classification Board
29	National Grange
29	National Labor Relations Board
29	National Livestock and Meat Board
29	National Livestock Tax Committee
29	National Releases
30	National Wool Growers Association
31	National Wool Marketing Corp.
31	Natrona County Wool Growers Association
31	Natural Resource Board
31	New York Federation of Women's Clubs
31	New Zealand Correspondence
31	North, Mary
61	O2 By-Laws and Correspondence	1991
61	O3 WPLC - General Information	1987-1990
32	Oil Damages
32	Olson, L. K.
32	O'Mahoney, Joseph C.
60	Omnibus Range Bill:
Box
60	Johanna Wald Letters - NRDC Recommendations to Omnibus Bill	1985
60	Rangeland - Omnibus Range Bill	1985
32	O.P.A. Wool Orders (Ceilings - Lamb)
32	Oregon Wool Growers Association
33	P.M.A. Wool Advisory Committee
33	Pacific Wool Growers Association
33	Papers
33	Papers	Dec. 1952
33	Park Extension National Parks
	Photographs and Negatives:
Box
60	WWGA Photo Files	1990-1996
60, 63-64, and 68-69	Miscellaneous photographs and negatives	1963-1992
63	1989 Photos	1989
63 and 69	Presidents and Officers	undated
63 and 69	Sheep	undated
63	Negatives	1975-1978
63 and 69	Predators	1970s
63	Lambs	undated
63	Sheep, Ewes, and Lambs	undated
63	Herds (on the Trail)	1963-1980
63	Sheep Pictures	1963-1970
63 and 69	Wool Tour	March 1976
64 and 69	Sheep Pictures - Cartoons and Future W.G. Photos	1963-1970
64	Sheep and People	undated
64	1989 Convention Photographs and Negatives	1989
64 and 69	Old Woolgrower Pics	undated
64	Sheep wagons	undated
64 and 69	Sheep on the Range Photos	undated
64	Fort Casper - Sheep Herder Fair - Coffman Ranch - Immigration at Riverton - Cook-off at Eastridge Mall	1987
68	Wool Growers Negatives and Contact Sheets	undated
69	Wool Tour	March 23, 1977
69	Sketches by Edie Reno (negatives)	undated
33	Planning
33	Predatory Animal Committee
34	Press Clippings	1950
34	Press Notices
34	Price Fixing Bill
34	Office of Price Administration
64	Printed Material	1977-1979
66	Printed Material - Books	1977
34	Profits and Losses on Sheep Ranches
34	Public Lands
	Public Lands:
Box
61	History	undated
61	Public Lands Grazing - Sheep	1992
61	Personnel	undated
61	ASI - Public Lands Committee	1991
61	Improvements	undated
61	Public Lands News	1992
61	Subleasing	1984
61	CMA Lawsuits	1985
61	PL Damage: Vehicular	1985
61	Research	1988
61	Grazing Permits - Public Lands	undated
61	Public Land Access	undated
64	Public Land Access Symposium	July 1987
61	Public Lands: Aum's on Public Lands Stats on PL Lands in Different States	undated
61	Public Lands: Costs of Operating on Public Lands	undated
	Public Lands - Legal:
Box
60	Natural Resources and Public Land	1981-1985
60	No Net Gain	undated
60	Private Rights and Public Lands	1983
67	Public Lands and Grazing Fees	1961-1985
61	Public Lands - Statistics	undated
	Public Lands - Grazing Studies:
Box
61	Grazing Fees	1990s
61	Grazing Fee Formula	1992
61	New Mexico Study	1992
34	Public Relations Committee Literature
34	Public Service Commission
34	Quartermaster General
	Questionnaires:
Box
65	Permit Value	1984
65	Sub-leasing	1984
34	Ram Sale Account
66 and 68	Ram Sale - ads, catalog, and orders	1987-1988
34	Railroad Rates
34	Reciprocity Hearings	1950
34	Reciprocal Trade Agreement
34	Reconstruction Finance Corporation
34	Re: Forest Service vs. Moroni A. Smith and Ray Smith - Abstract of Testimony
34	Reed, John A.
35	Reorganization Bill
35	Resettlement Administration
35	Research
35	Resolution Committee
64	Resource Area Contact Lists and Grazing Permitees	1992-1994
35	Reward and Theft Committee
36	RHEA Tillard
36	Rich, R. C.
37	Rich, S. Grover
37	Riepma, Siert
37	Robertson, E. V.
37	Routt National Forest
37	Seaverson, Reynold
37	Secretary's Report
37	Section 15 Committees
37	Selective Service Headquarters
65	Senate Hearing - Public Lands Subcommittee Locatable Minerals	July 1969
37	Shearing Rates
37	"Sheep", by Arthur Gilfillan
63	Sheep Cartoons	1975-1982
37	Sheep Stealing
37	Shrinkage Work
37	Sheridan County Wool Growers
38	Smith, Moroni
39	Smith, Barney and Company
39	Special Farm Committee Meeting	Dec. 8-9, 1948
39	Soil Conservation Act
39	South Africa
39	State Associations of the National
39	State Board of Equalization
39	State-Federal Range Grasshopper Control Program
39	State Legislation
39	State Offices - Governor of Wyoming, etc.
40	Statements to Colmer Committee and Reports
40	Stationery and Supplies
40	Statistics
40	Steiwer, William
40	Subsidies
40	Swift and Company
41	Taggart, Lloyd
41	Tariff
41	Taylor Act - Section 15
41	Taylor Grazing Districts Committee
41	Taxation
41	Templin, Curtis
41	Tenderfoot at Bar X
41	Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association
42	Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association
42	Thompson, Ralph I. (Mrs.)
42	Tillare, Pea
42	Trail Committee
43	Transfer of Property
43	Transportation - State Association of the National
43	Transportation - Truth in Fabric
43	Transportation - Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association
43	Transportation - Tariff
43	Transportation - Top Makers Investigation
43	Transportation - Uniform Grazing Bill
43	Transportation - Thermofax
43	Transportation - Wool Department, University of Wyoming
43	Transportation - Utah Wool Growers
43	Transportation - Union Pacific Railroad
43	Trespass Committee
43	Trespass on Trails
43	Truman Committee
43	Truth-in-Fabric Bill
61	U2 Environmental Quality DEQ Department	1988
44	Union Pacific System
44	United States Department of Agriculture (Bureaus of Land Management, Agricultural Economics, Animal Industry; Secretary Benson; Forest Service; Wool Bill; etc.)
45	United States Department of Agriculture (Codes; Commodity Exchange; Defense; Forest Service; Transportation; etc.)
45	United States Department of Labor (Wool Futures; Vibroic Abortion; etc.)
45	United States Interior Department - Indian Affairs
46	United States Senate
46	U. S. Testing Company
46	Unrra
46	Uranium
47	Vass, A. F.
47	Von Krosigk, Hugh
47	War Production Board - Marriner Walton
47	Wardlaw, C. B.
48	Wardlaw, C. B.
48	Warren, Fred E.
61	Weed Control	1988
48	Western Air Lines
48	Western Wool Handlers
48	Wild Life
48	Wilson, Felix
48	Wilson, J. B.
48	Winder, G. N.
48	Wool Auction
48	Wool Bill
48	Wool Bureau
49	Wool Bureau Annual Meeting and Reports	1950
49	The Wool Bureau, Incorporated Sept. 30, 1949
49	Wool Conference	Feb. 16, 1945
49	Wool Freight Rates
49	Government Wool Purchase Plan
49	Wool Handlers
49	Wool Imports
49	Wool Marketing Investigation
50	Wool Marketing Investigation
50	Wool Prices
50	Wool Prices - Wyoming Figures Statistics
50	Wool Scouring and Shrinkage
51	Wool Scouring and Shrinkage
51	Wool Scouring and Shrinkage Tests
51	Wool Stock Pile
52	Wool Storage Rates
52	Wool Trade
52	Wyoming Agricultural Council
53	Wyoming Agriculture Station
53	Wyoming Bankers Association
53	Wyoming Board of Equalization (State Department of Agriculture, Game and Fish; Wyoming Stock Growers Association; Wilderness Bills; Wool Knit Associates; Wool Top Futures; Walter Wolfson; Wyoming Reclamation Association)
53	Wyoming Co-op Wool Marketing Association (McKinley)
53	Wyoming Executive Committee
53	Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation
53	Wyoming Livestock and Sanitary Board (O. K. Barnes)
53	Wyoming Natural Resource Board
61	WPLC Board/WWGA Mailing Lists	1992
61	Wyoming Public Lands Council	1992
65	Wyoming Public Lands Council - April 1976	April 1976
65	Wyoming Public Lands Council and Rangeland Reform	1994
65	Wyoming Public Lands Council - Mailing List	1982-1984
65	WPLC Seminar	November 15, 1975
66	WPLC Seminar	November 15, 1984
65	Wyoming Public Lands Session - Douglas	November 15, 1984
53	Wyoming Salvage Committee
54	Wyoming, State of (Wool Prices; Edwin Wilkinson; Wilkins and Company; G. N. Winder; Wool Handlers; 1952 Wool Loan Values; Wool Processing Plant, Rawlins; Wool Tops Imports)
54	Wyoming Stock Growers Association
55	Wyoming Tax Payers Association (Natural Resource Board Speakers; Wyoming Veterinary Laboratory; Wyoming Newspaper Data; Wyoming Sheep Council)
55	Wyoming Unemployment Compensation
55	University of Wyoming
56	University of Wyoming (USDA Wool Advisory Committee; U.S. Forest Service; Werner Von Bergen; Hill-Vass; etc.)
57	University of Wyoming (Wool Department: J. A. Hill, Robert Burns; Miscellaneous)
57	Wyoming Wool Co-op, Rawlins
57-58,66, and 70-71	Wyoming Wool Grower Published Monthly by the Wyoming Wool Growers Association	1928-1947, 1964-1968, 1987-1988
63	Wyoming Wool Grower - Set Copy	undated
58	Membership Record Book
58	Minute Book
59	Scrapbook
62	Cynthia M. Loomis - State Treasurer	2000
62	Max Maxfield - State Auditor	1997
62	Trent Blankenship - Superintendent of Public Instruction	2001
62	Governor's Rangeland Committee	1990-1991
62	Governor Jim Geringer	1994-2002
62	Y.3 Legislation - State of Wyoming	1997-2006
62	Y. Legislative and Congressional Records	1995-2001
62	Y.2 Legislative Committee Meetings	1996-1998
62	Y. Legislative and Congressional Records	undated
Box
62	Y.3.a Wyoming Linked Deposits Act	1993
67	Y.4. Governor Mike Sullivan	1989
67	Y.8 Congressman Craig Thomas	1989
67	Y.9 Senator Al Simpson	1989
67	Y.10 Senator Malcolm Wallop	1989
62	Y.5 Federal Legislation US Government	1993-1997
65	234.1 Legislation and Hearings	1977-1980
65	234.12 ANCA - NWGA Public Lands	1974-1975
65	234.12 ANCA - NWGA Public Lands Council (Ron Michieli)	1980-1982
65	(P) 234.13-0 WPLUCC - Miscellaneous	1973-1981
65	234.2-4 Grazing Fees and Regulations	1977-1983
65	234.2-5 Grazing EIS's and Other Wyoming EIS's	1980

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