Swan Company records - Archives West

Swan Company records, 1877-1984

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Swan Company
Title: Swan Company records
Dates: 1877-1984 (inclusive)
Date of CollectionDate of Collection
Quantity: 192.40 cubic ft. (221 boxes)
Collection Number: 11470
Summary: Records of a livestock company located in southeastern 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

In 1883 the Swan Land & Cattle Co. was organized and acquired land near the site of Chugwater, Wyoming. The company owned several ranches throughout the southeast corner of the state of Wyoming and leased land from several other ranches in the area for grazing purposes for the cattle and sheep they raised. The office building of the company suffered a fire in 1918 in which most of the business records were lost. In 1926, Swan Land and Cattle Company was liquidated and reorganized into the Swan Company. On November 30, 1950, the Swan Company was liquidated and dissolved.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection contains correspondence, ledgers, journals, agreements made with other land owners and the Union Pacific Railroad, leases, tax records, financial information, deeds, wills, diaries, wool count books, church programs and bulletins, work orders, equipment inventories, company store inventories, cash books, photographs, and maps.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

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Restrictions on Use

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Alternative Forms Available

Existence and Location of Copies

Digital reproductions of select material from this collection are available at http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu:8180/luna/servlet/uwydbuwy~15~15.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into five series which include correspondence, financial records, photographs, artifacts, and maps. The correspondence series is divided into three sub-series: subject, alphabetical and chronological. The finanancial records are divided into two subseries: general finance and tax records.

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Swan Company at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

The collection was received from Lawrence M. Woods in 2006 and John Staats in 2021, and purchased from AKM Group, Karen Belinky in 2018.

Processing Note

The collection was processed by Loreley Moore and Andrea Gietzen from 2007-2008 and updated by Jamie Greene in January 2020 and March 2022.

Links to digitized material were added by Ben Goldman in 2010-2011.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description
		Sub-series 1. Subject
Box
1		Albany City Government - Butler Welsh Greene Co.	1926-1962
2		Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. - Chugwater Valley Bank	1917-1959
3		Chugwater Valley Bank	1960-1968
4		Chugwater Valley Bank - Continental Oil Co.	1915-1968
5		Cordingly & Co. Inc. - Ferrall, Bard (Attorney)	1925-1951
6		Ferrall Bard (Attorney) - Fidelity & Depository Co. of Maryland	1926-1944
7		Fidelty &Depository Co. of Maryland - Gibson, R.	1927-1957
8		Gibson, R. - Irving, E.J.	1925-1946
		John Clay & Co.	1918-1929
Box	Folder
9	1	1918-1921
9	2	1922
9	3	1923-1925
9	4	January - March 1926
9	5	April - May 1926
9	6	June - July 1926
9	7	August - September 1926
9	8	October - December 1926
9	9	January - February 1927
9	10	March - May 1927
9	11	June - August 1927
9	12	September - October 1927
9	13	November - December 1927
9	14	January - May 1928
9	15	January - October 1928
9	16	August - September 1928
9	17	October - December 1928
9	18	January - April 1929
9	19	May - July 1929
9	20	July - December 1929
Box
10		John Clay & Co.	1930-1933
Box	Folder
10	1	January - April 1930
10	2	May - July 1930
10	3	August - September 1930
10	4	October - December 1930
10	5	January - March 1931
10	6	April - August 1931
10	7	September - December 1931
10	8	January - May 1931
10	9	June - December 1931
10	10	January - February 1932
10	11	March 1932
10	12	April - May 1932
10	13	June 1932
10	14	July 1932
10	15	August 1932
10	16	September - October 1932
10	17	November 1932
10	18	December 1932
10	19	January - February 1933
10	20	March - April 1933
10	21	May - June 1933
11		John Clay & Co.	1933-1937
Box	Folder
11	1	July 1933
11	2	August 1933
11	3	September - November 1933
11	4	November - December 1933
11	5	January - February 1934
11	6	March 1934
11	7	April - June 1934
11	8	July - September 1934
11	9	October - December 1934
11	10	January - February 1935
11	11	March 1935
11	12	April 1935
11	13	May - June 1935
11	14	July - September 1935
11	15	September - October 1935
11	16	February - April, October - December 1935
11	17	January - December 1936
11	18	January - February 1937
12		John Clay & Co.	1937-1940
Box	Folder
12	1		March 1937
12	2	April - May 1937
12	3	June - July 1937
12	4	August - September 1937
12	5	October - November 1937
12	6	December 1937
12	7	January - March 1938
12	8	April - May 1938
12	9	June - July 1938
12	10	August - September 1938
12	11	October - December 1938
12	12	January - February 1939
12	13	March 1939
12	14	April - May 1939
12	15	June - July 1939
12	16	August - September 1939
12	17	October - December 1939
12	18	January - February 1940
12	19	March - April 1940
12	20	May - June 1940
13		John Clay & Co.	1940-1943
14		John Clay & Co.	1943-1946
15		John Clay & Co - John Deer Plow Co.	1943-1947
	Folder
16	1	Konlod Ranch	1932-1935
		La Grange Elevator	1936-1938
Box	Folder
16	2-3		1936
16	4		1937
16	5		1938
Box	Folder
16	6	La Grange Lumber Company	1928-1931
		Lawyer, William F.	1930-1938
Box	Folder
16	7		1930
16	8		1931-1933
16	9		1934-1938
		Lee, Ray E. (Attorney)	1939-1946
Box	Folder
16	10	1939-1940
16	11	1942-1943
16	12	1944
16	13	1944
16	14	1944
16	15	1945
16	16		1946
16	17		1946
16	18		1906-1960
Box	Folder
16	19	Lewis, Claude	1928-1944
		Lookout Ranch Foreman	1926-1946
Box	Folder
16	20	1926-1927
16	21	1928
17	1	1928
17	2	1929
17	3	1929
17	4	1929
17	5	1930
17	6	1930
17	7	1931
17	8	1931
17	9	1931
17	10	1932
17	11	1933
17	12	1934
17	13	1935
17	14	1936
17	15	1936
17	16		1937-1938
17	17		1939-1940
17	18		1941
17	19		1942
17	20		1943
17	21		1944
17	22		1944
18	1		1944
18	2		1945
18	3-5		1946
Box	Folder
18	6-17	Lookout Ranch Office	1919-1946
18	18	Lookout Road	1928-1938
18	19	Lyman Farm Repairs	1951-1952
18	20	McCartney and Markham Grain Company	1930-1933
19		Marster, Walter M. (Wool) - Morris, D.M.	1927-1942
20		Morris, D.M. - Platte County	1923-1949
21		Platte County - Regional Agricultural Credit Corp. in Sioux City, Iowa (Farm Credit Administration)	1927-1949
22		Regional Credit 1A - State Commission of Public Lands	1899-1944
218		Staats, Mr. and Mrs. R.L. (letters to)	1913-1970
23		State Commission of Public Lands	1930-1945
24		State Commission of Public Lands - State of Wyoming (General)	1926-1950
25		State of Wyoming- General - Stock Growers Bank	1925-1954
26		Stock Grower's National Bank	1932-1938
27		Stock Grower's National Bank	1938-1963
28		Summit Grain Co. - Swan Co. (Chugwater Office)	1929-1940
29		Swan Co. Chugwater Office - Swan Merchantile Store	1911-1952
30		Swan Mercantile Store	1928-1942
31		Swan Mercantile Store - T.B. Hord Grain Co.	1911-1946
32		T.B. Hord Grain Co. - Templin & Brown	1928-1944
33		Templin & Brown	1935-1942
Box	Folder
33	1-3		1935
33	4-5		1936
33	6-7		1937
33	8		1938
33	9-11		1939
33	12		1940
33	13		1941-1942
		Templin, Curtis (Swan Company Manager)	1909-1953
Box	Folder
33	14	1909-1926
33	15	1927
33	16	1928
33	17	1929
33	18	1930
33	19	1930
33	20	1931
33	21	1932
34	1	1933
34	2	1934-1935
34	3	1936
34	4	1937
34	5	1938
34	6	1939
34	7	1939
34	8		1940
34	9		1941
34	10		1942
34	11		1943-1944
34	12		1945
34	13		1946
34	14		1947-1948
34	15		1949-1953
		Templin, Curtis (Feeding Account)	1939-1962
Box	Folder
34	16		1939, 1941
34	17		1942-1946
34	18		1946-1947
34	19		1948
35	1		1949-1962
Box
35		Union Pacific Railroad	1927-1954
Box	Folder
35	2	1927
35	3	1928
35	4	1929-1930
35	5	1931
35	6	1932
35	7	1932
35	8	1933
35	9	1933
35	10	1934-1935
35	11	1935
35	12	1936
35	13	1937
35	14	1938
35	15	1939-1940
35	16		1941-1942
35	17		1943
35	18		1944
35	19		1945
35	20		1946
35	21		1947
35	22		1948-1949
35	23		1950, 1952
35	24		1953-1954
36		Union Pacific Railroad - United States, General	1920-1957
37		United States, General	1943-1949
Box	Folder
37	1	1943
37	2	1943
37	3	1944, 1946
37	4	1947-1949
37		United States - Social Security Board	1938-1942
Box	Folder
37	5	1938-1941
37	6	1942
	Folder
37	7-14	Updike Grain Corporation	1935-1947
37	15-18	Vandehei, Earl & Curtis Templin	1954-1965
37	19-20	Winston, Strawn & Shaw	1926
		Worthen, J.C. (Auditor)	1926-1965
Box	Folder
38	1	1930-1935
38	2	1936-1937
		Wyoming Development Company	1926-1942, 1944-1948, 1973-1974, 1980
Box	Folder
38	3		1926-1932
38	4		1933-1942
38	5		1944-1945
38	6		1946-1948, 1973-1974, 1980
Box	Folder
38	7-11	Wyoming Production Credit Association	1934-1937
38	12	Wyoming Unemployment Tax	1939-1947
38	13-17	Wyoming Wool Grower's Association	1926-1944
220		Christmas Greetings booklets by John Clay	1921, 1933
		Sub-series 2. Alphabetical
Box	Folder
38	18-19	Aa - Ag	1926-1943
39		Ah - Bl	1931-1943
40		Ba - Chy	1931-1943
41		Cl - Dl	1931-1943
42		Doa - Fug	1930-1943
43		Gal - Harr	1931-1943
44		Hard - Jon	1927-1943
45		Jon - Lau	1928-1943
46		Leg - Men	1926-1948
47		McC - Moy	1928-1943
48		Mon - Pey	1928-1943
49		Pa - Pi	1928-1943
50		Ra - Sn	1928-1943
51		So - Sp	1931-1943
52		Ta - Wa	1928 -1944
53		We - Z	1928-1943
		Sub-series 3. Chronological
Box
54			1910-1919
55-64			1920-1929
65-80			1930-1939
81-88			1940-1949
88-94			1950-1959
95-97			1960-1969
97			1970-1979
97			1980-1989

Series II. Financial RecordsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description
		Sub-series 1. General Finance
Box
98		Receipt files	1941- January, 1942
99		Receipt files	February - July, 1942
100		Receipt files	August, 1942 - January, 1943
101		Receipt files	February - August, 1943
102		Receipt files	September, 1943 - April, 1944
103		Receipt files	May, 1944 - January, 1945
104		Receipt files	February, 1945 - January, 1946
105		Receipt files	February, 1946 - June, 1947
106		Receipt files	July, 1947 - 1951
107		Ledgers and Stock certificates	1944-1982
108		Livestock reports, Annual reports, Records of minutes, Notebooks regarding certificate of incorporation	1891-1931
109		Ledgers	1927-1937
110		Annual statements	1915-1926
111		Company accounts	1917-1920
112		Company accounts, F-L	1920-1940
113		Company accounts, A-E	1920-1940
114		Company accounts, M-P
115		Company accounts	1920-1930
116		Meeting minutes, Report and appraisal of land	1911-1944
117		Company accounts, Q-Z
118		Company accounts	1930-1939
119		Company accounts, A-Z
120		Financial papers	1936-1950
121		Stock certificates; Condition statements, and Annual reports	1918-1947
122		Stock certificates, Board of directors meeting notes, Certificates of incorporation	1926-1969
123		Vouchers, Expenses, Wool shipments, Leases, Proxy statements	1918-1951
124		Oil & gas licenses, Contracts, Leases, Proxy statements, Certificates of incorporation	1918-1954
125		Water permits, Blueprints, Annual statements, Sheep statements, Horse statements, Cattle statements, Shearing reports	1927-1974
126		Financial papers	1910-1989
127		Financial notebooks, Address books, Wool shipping weights logs	1922-1944
128		Hay statements	1910-1946
129		Hay statements, Hay books, Phone logs	1910-1969
130		Deeds	1889-1944
131		Deeds	1883-1946
132		Deeds, Stock certificates, Expense reports	188-1944
133		Deeds, Titles	1919-1943
134		Annual reports	1920-1950
135		Annual report and balance sheets	1920-1950
136		Financial wage statements, Time sheets	1910-1969
137		Financial wage statements	1920-1949
138		Annual statements, Assesment schedules, Abstract chain of title agreements, State and school land contracts, Deeds, Receipts, Financial papers	1876-1959
139		Loan Applications & budgets, Lease agreements & contracts, Deeds, Swan Land Titles, Taxation & reorganization, Scottish accounts	1920-1968
Box	Folder
139	1	Loan Applications and Budgets	1926-1937
139	2	Liquidation and Dissolution of the Swan Company	1950
139	3-4	Lease Agreements and Contracts	1920-1929
139	5-8	Deeds	undated
139	9	Swan Land Titles	undated
139	10	Taxation and Reorganization, Scottish Accounts	1923
139	11-21	Business and Financial Correspondence with Scotland	1928-1968
140		Income and profit taxes, Lease agreements, Leases (individual names), Receipts, Receipt books	1913-1916
141		Annual report and balance sheets	1925-1935
142		Lease agreements (School lands and State lands)	1905-1960
190		Journal	1881-1883
144		Journal	1920-1926
145		Journal	1938-1942
146		Journal 1	1926-1931
147		Journal 2	1931-1936
148		Journal 3	1917-1921
149		Journal 3	1936-1942
150		Journal 4	1942-1950
151		Ledger	1917-1920
152		Ledger	1938-1950
153		Ledger 1	1928-1933
154		Ledger 2	1921-1925
155		Ledger 2	1935-1942
156		Ledger 3	1935-1942
157		Cash (Index)	1946-1950
191		Cash	1917-1918
158		Cash	1918-1919
159		Cash	1919-1920
160		Cash 1	1927-1929
161		Cash 2	1929-1931
162		Cash 3	1931-1933
163		Cash 4	1920-1922
164		Cash 4	1933-1935
165		Cash 5	1922-1923
166		Cash 5	1935-1936
167		Cash 6	1923-1925
168		Cash 6	1937-1938
169		Cash 7	1925-1927
170		Cash 7	1938-1940
171		Cash 8	1940-1942
172		Cash 9	1942-1944
173		Cash 10	1944-1947
174		Cash 11	1947-1951
180		Payroll registers	1918-1925
181		Abstract of Title, Account books	1940-1947
182		Land deeds & maps	1926-1943
184		Livestock statements	1916-1933
185		Swan Company corporate records	1926-1950
186		Hay Registers	1928-1938
187		Hay Registers, Alfafa & native log	1917-1946
188		Ledgers	1911-1951
189		Account log, Hay Register, Ledgers	1922-1946
216		Bank Registers, Diaries of Curtis Templin	1920-1970
217		Agreements	1917-1928
217		Blank Money Notes	undated
217		Certificates of Abstracter	1882-1902
217		Chugwater Valley Irrigation Company (articles of incorporation, stock tax, telegrams, checks)	1913-1958
217		Legal documents - miscellaneous (leases, deeds, agreements, contracts, notes, certificates)	1882-1973
217		Limited Annual Reports and Balance Sheets	1889-1951
217		Warranty Deeds and Abstract of Titles	1883-1943
219		Certificates - high school diplomas, intermediate department promotion, memberships	1910-1921
220		Annual Report and Balance Sheets - 9th annual report	December 31, 1934
220		Livestock reports: Transfer Report for a Percheron Stallion	December 31, 1910
220		Report to Shareholders - Swan Land and Cattle Company	December 20, 1887
220		Special Resolution for Transfer of Company	December 15, 1944
220		Swan Land Titles - Platte County, Wyoming Land Title	March 15, 1876
		Sub-series 2. Tax Records
Box
175		Tax schedules	1917-1927
176		Tax schedules	1928-1932
177		Tax schedules	1933-1937
178		Tax schedules	1939-1945
179		Tax schedules	1946-1950

Series III. Photographs, 1887-1965Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box
198	Swan Co. Ranches	1887-1965

Series IV. ArtifactsReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description
Box
193	Newspaper clippings regarding Two Bar Cattle Ranch and home of Curtis Templin	1948-1960
199	Salt samples, rice bags and obsidian	undated

Series V. MapsReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description
Box
143	Land maps and blueprints	undated
183	Land maps and blueprints	undated
192-197	Land maps and blueprints	undated
200-215	Land maps and blueprints	undated
221	Lands of the Swan Land and Cattle Company in Platte, Goshen, and Laramie Counties, Wyoming and Scottsbluff County, Nebraska	February 1912

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Cattle trade -- Wyoming -- 19th century.
Cattle trade -- Wyoming -- 20 century.
Ranching -- Wyoming -- 19th century.
Ranching -- Wyoming -- 20 century.
Sheep ranchers -- Wyoming -- 19th century.
Sheep ranchers -- Wyoming -- 20 century.

Corporate Names

Swan Land and Cattle Company.

Geographical Names

Wyoming -- History -- 1890-1918.
Wyoming -- History -- 1946-
Wyoming -- History -- To 1889.
Wyoming -- History --1919-1945.

Archives West Finding Aid

Table of Contents

Swan Company records, 1877-1984

Overview of the Collection

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Restrictions on Use

Preferred Citation

Alternative Forms Available

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Related Materials

Acquisition Information

Processing Note

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Series II. Financial RecordsReturn to Top

Series III. Photographs, 1887-1965Return to Top

Series IV. ArtifactsReturn to Top

Series V. MapsReturn to Top

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Corporate Names

Geographical Names

Processed by Loreley Moore and Andrea Gietzen
2008

Archives West Finding Aid

Table of Contents

Swan Company records, 1877-1984

Overview of the Collection

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Restrictions on Use

Preferred Citation

Alternative Forms Available

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Related Materials

Acquisition Information

Processing Note

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Series II. Financial RecordsReturn to Top

Series III. Photographs, 1887-1965Return to Top

Series IV. ArtifactsReturn to Top

Series V. MapsReturn to Top

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Corporate Names

Geographical Names

Processed by Loreley Moore and Andrea Gietzen2008

Processed by Loreley Moore and Andrea Gietzen
2008