William A. Carter Papers, 1857-1882
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Carter, William A.
- Title
- William A. Carter Papers
- Dates
- 1857-1882 (inclusive)Date of CollectionDate of Collection
- Quantity
- 5.40 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 03535
- Summary
- Papers of this early Wyoming settler and Fort Bridger post trader.
- Repository
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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
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Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
Carter was an early settler of Wyoming, arriving in 1857. He was appointed judge in 1858, and served for 14 years. He was instrumental in establishing the boundaries of Wyoming, and he erected the first oil refinery in the region and operated one of the first sawmills in southwestern Wyoming. From 1858 to 1881 Carter served as post trader at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, a fort used by the military from 1857 to 1890. Mary E. Carter served as post trader from 1881 to 1883.
Content Description
The collection includes legal documents, correspondence from 1860-1881, a transcript of a diary from 1857, a train book of United States stores transported in 1862, and a Fort Bridger financial journal of 1880-1882. There are also copies of two articles about early oil exploration in Wyoming from the Inland Oil Index.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
Copyright InformationThe researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Preferred Citation
Preferred CitationItem Description, Box Number, Folder Number, William A. Carter Papers, Collection Number 3535, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Administrative Information
Related Materials
Related MaterialsJudge William A. Carter Papers, Wyoming Archives, Museums and Historical Department, Barrett Building, Cheyenne, WY 82002.
Acquisition Information
Acquisition InformationSeveral donors and created out of other AHC collections.
Processing Note
Processing InformationThe collection's finding aids was rekeyed by D.C. Thompson in June 1995.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Container List
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The Edward Carter Collection of William A. Carter Papers
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Journal
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Description: Sales Book No. 11, for general store, 1880-1882, with various financial records interleaved dated 1867, 1877, 1883Container: Box 1
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William A. Carter Papers materials from Wyoming State Archives, July 18, 1995
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Description: Composite inventory of William A. Carter Papers at the Wyoming State Archives and Historical DepartmentContainer: Box 1
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Description: Articles (2) on early oil wells operated by Judge William A. Carterphotocopies.Container: Box 1
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William A. Carter Papers of unknown origin, July 18, 1995
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Description: Train Book, of United States stores transported by W.A. Carter from Ft. Bridger, Utah, to Denver City, Colorado; Hugh O'Neil, wagonmaster, May 31, 1862Container: Box 1
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Post Office Documents
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Description: Memorandum book, Mails Passing East and West, Oct. 1864-April 1865Container: Box 1
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Description: List of Mail Employees and Amounts Owing to W.A. Carter, June 24, 1862Container: Box 1
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Description: List of Mail Company Employees indebted to W.A. Carter, April 16, 1863Container: Box 1
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Description: List of Amounts Due W.A. Carter from Mail Employees East of Bridger, Dec. 21, 1863Container: Box 1
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Financial Records
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Description: Memo of accounts sent R.H. Hamilton, Aug. 25, 1861Container: Box 1
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Description: Overland Stage Line account with W.A. Carter, beginning with quarter ending Dec. 31, 1862Container: Box 1
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Description: Receipt for $24.25, James Elliott from W.A. Carter, Jan. 18, 1863Container: Box 1
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Description: Check, of M.E. Carter to T. Taylor, $50.00, May 17, 1883Container: Box 1
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Description: Checks (2), blank, numbered 1123 & 1124 of M.E. Carter on First National Bank, OmahaContainer: Box 1
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Description: Account of Irwin & Young (includes Martin's Estate, Jack Robertson, etc.), no dateContainer: Box 1
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Copies
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Description: Typed transcript of letter from J.H. Ely to W.A. Carter, July 25, 1867Container: Box 1
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Description: Typed transcript, diary of W.A. Carter, Feb.-Oct., 1865Container: Box 1
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The W.C. Casto Collection of William A. Carter Papers
Received from Mrs. H.W. Hopkinson by Lola Homsher
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August 31, 1946
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Description: Sketch map of Millersville Claim of C.O.C. & P.P. Express Co., recorded March 3, 1862; showing telegraph line, stage road, main road, new route, Claim and location of buildings, Smith's Fork and Black's Fork1Container: Box 3
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Description: Map: 1871 USGS Dept. of Int. Yellowstone Lake, Wyo. T. by F.V. Hayden1Coe Library
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Description: Sketch: Ft. Bridger in early 1850s by R.F.E. (photograph)1Container: Box 2
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Description: Photographs:5
- Officer's quarters, Ft. Bridger
- First Carter home, 1874
- Evanston, Wyoming
- Ft. Bridger, 1940 (tinted), shows monument
- Print, "Furious Encounter with the Indians on the Plains"
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Description: Pamphlet: Souvenir History of Ft. Bridger, by Bill Casto1Container: Box 2
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Description: Maverick Book: WSGA 1884 Roundup District No. 28 (mostly blank)1Container: Box 2
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Description: Account Book No. 2 of Merchandise Train, 1866; W.A. Carter, Ft. Bridger1Container: Box 2
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Description: Ledger: Mill Fork Stone Co., 18901Container: Box 3
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Description: Journal: Mill Fork Stone Co., 18901Container: Box 3
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Description: Trial balance book: [Mill Fork Stone Co., 1890 ]1 ((2 sheets numbered 1 & 3).)Container: Box 3
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Description: Indian trade money, W.A. Carter, Post Trader, Ft. Bridger, 50 cent value1
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Description: Indian trade money, W.A. Carter, Post Trader, Ft. Bridger, 25 cent value1
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Description: Book: The Lincoln Highway, Lincoln Highway Association, Dodd, Mead & Co1Coe Library
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Description: Book: Western Trails, Marion A. Speer, Limited Edition #541, 19311
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May 7, 1948:
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Description: Letter press book of Mill Fork Stone Co., 18901Container: Box 4
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Description: Catalogue of Spiegel & Co. Furniture Store1
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Description: Check stub book: W.A. Carter, 1868-18711Container: Box 2
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Description: Check stub book: W.A. Carter, 1873-18741
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Description: Cash book: W.A. Carter, 1864-1865, Heber City Branch Store1Container: Box 2
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Description: Employee record book: W.A. Carter, 18851Container: Box 4
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Description: Record of Ordinance Stores, W.A. Carter, about 18611
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Description: Record of Ordinance Stores, W.A. Carter, about 1861 (miscellaneous notations included)1Container: Box 2
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Description: Notebook: Bannock and Flat Head Indian vocabulary1Container: Box 2
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Description: Notebook: with miscellaneous notations1Container: Box 2
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Newspapers:
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Description: The Daily Globe, Washington D.C., vol. 23 no. 124, May 20, 1870
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Description: The Daily Globe, Washington D.C., vol. 23, no. 126, May 22, 1870
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Description: Letter: W.A. Carter to J.H. Hayford, Ter. Auditor, Laramie City, Jan. 15, 18711Container: Box 2
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Description: Letter: W.A. Carter to R.H. Carter, Supt. Public Schools, Uinta Co., Carter Station, Nov. 1, 18711Container: Box 2
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Letters to W.A. Carter:
Container: Box 2
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Description: from Evans & Anthony, June 24, 1868
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Description: from Lt. A.E. Woodson, June 21, 1869
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Description: from James S. Brisbin, March 22, 1870
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Description: from Maj. H.B. Freeman, May 3, 1870
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Description: from E.C. Jacobs, Supt. Public Schools, Dec. 28, 1870
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Description: from Charles Scribner & Co. per Saml. W. Marvin, June 19, 1871
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Description: from Richards, Whitney & Co., Aug. 15, 1871
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Description: from R.H. Carter, Nov. 1, 1871
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Letters to R.H. Hamilton:
Container: Box 2
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Description: from Wm. W. Clors (?), Dec. 7, 1873
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Description: from J. A. Campbell, June 6, 1874
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Description: from Wallin & Tanner, July 8, 1874
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Description: from George East, Feb. 23, 1875
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Description: from W.H. Remington, May 9, 1875
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Description: from W.H. Remington, July 2, 1875
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Description: from W.H. Remington, Sept. 27, 1875
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Items:
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Description: Letter to Dick from Alf [Alf. G. Lee, Uinta County Clerk], March 15, 1875
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Description: Note of personal effects of the estate of Isaac Edwards, no date
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Description: Complaint form, blank
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Description: Memo of contract between C.O.C. & P.P. Ex. Co. and P.C. Sullivan for delivery of hay to Warm Springs, Ice Springs and Three Crossings Stations, Aug. 3, 1861
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Description: Receipt from W.A. Carter to R.H. Hamilton, Sheriff of Uinta County, for taxes gathered, 1870
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Description: Note from H. Davidson to Ben Bachman regarding missing horses [1870]
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Items: Evidence and Affadavits
Container: Box 2
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Description: Note, Workman & Ford to Bachman, Aug. 5, 1870
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Description: Affadavit, Bachman vs. Byrnes, Aug. 20, 1870
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Description: Complaint, Ben Bachman vs. Moses Byrnes, Aug. 22, 1870
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Description: Brief, Wyoming vs. John B. Nixon, Nov. 30, 1870
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Description: Complaint, Wyoming vs. John Abell, Nov. 30, 1870
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Description: Warrant to arrest John Abell, Nov. 30, 1870
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Description: Note, George Prendergast to Byrnes, [1870]
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Description: Jury decision [Bachman vs. Byrnes, 1870 ]
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Description: Affadavit, Joseph Bernson vs. Saro-Wick (Ute Indian), Jan. 18, 1871
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Description: Affadavit, Edward Alton vs. Louis Simmons, Nov. 4, 1871 (clipped to affadavit, Wyoming vs. James Manly, June 15, 1871 )
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Description: Affadavit, Charles H. Davis regarding ownership of horse, Jan. 12, 1874
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Items:
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Description: The Pacific Express Co., Notice
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Description: Report of First National Bank, Omaha, Jan. 22, 1870
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Description: Advertisement of C.C. Wallin & Co., Salt Lake City
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Description: Page from Beef BookContainer: Box 2
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Description: Check, Carter Cattle Co. to Lulie L. Groshen for $4000
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Description: Hay account (Mr. Carter)
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Description: Check stub book, John Hastie, Loans and Mortgages, 1897-1899, and 14 blank checks (#1029, 1097-1099, 1125-1134)1
Items found not listed on previous inventory:
Container: Box 2
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The John and Laura Dahlquist Collection of William A. Carter Papers
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Financial Documents
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Description: Bill of sale, Tootle & Maul, Dry Goods, to W.A. Carter, Sept. 6, 1878Container: Box 5
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Description: Account of wages and debts of Benjamin Van Deusen, Wilson Creek, Dec. 15, 1879Container: Box 5
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Description: Castle Brothers, San Francisco, to W.A. Carter, Aug. 23, 1880Container: Box 5
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Description: Dewey & Stone, Furniture Dealers, Omaha, to W.A. Carter, Nov. 30, 1880Container: Box 5
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Description: Benedict, Hall & Co., Boots and Shoes, New York, to W.A. Carter, Dec. 3, 1880Container: Box 5
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Description: Castle Brothers, San Francisco, to W.A. Carter, Jan. 3, 1881Container: Box 5
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The Michael Ginsburg Collection of William A. Carter Papers
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Legal Document
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Description: Affadavit of Pvt. Robert Peck before William A. Carter, Justice of the Peace, concerning loss of Colt revolver and holster, Aug. 18, 1859Container: Box 5
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The Grace Raymond Hebard Collection of William A. Carter Papers
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Correspondence
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Description: Frank Fuller, Secretary, Utah Terr., to W.A. Carter, no dateContainer: Box 5
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Description: Maj, F.E. Hunt, Camp Floyd, to W.A. Carter, Nov. 9, 1859
(also photocopy of this letter)
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Description: R.C. Gatlin, Camp near Ft. Garland, to W.A. Carter, Aug. 1, 1860Container: Box 5
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Description: Brigham Young to W.A. Carter, Aug. 10, 1861
(also photocopy of this letter)
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Description: Robert Campbell & Co., St. Louis, to W.A. Carter, Dec. 11, 1862
(also photocopy and mirror-image negative photocopy of this letter)
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Description: J.C. Perry, Big Blue, to W.A. Carter, July 7, 1864
(also photocopy and mirror-image negative photocopy of this letter)
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Description: Moore Carter, Valley City, Neb., to W.A. Carter, July 14, 1864
(also photocopy of this letter)
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Description: Transcript of letter, R.H. Hamilton, Fort Bridger, to Judge Carter, April 28, 1868; typed and proofed by Mrs. Cyrus Beard, State HistorianContainer: Box 5
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Financial Records
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Description: Promissory note, William A. Carter to Robert Campbell & Co. for $7528.59, April 11, 1859
(also mirror-image negative photocopy of front and back of this note)
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Description: Bill of sale, Murdock Basye to W.A. Carter, 5 oxen, Aug. 17, 1859Container: Box 5
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Description: Receipt, John Robinson to W.A. Carter for $16.11, Oct. 9, 1860
(also mirror-image negative photocopy of this receipt)
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Description: Receipts of farm hands paid off by W.A. Carter at Fort Bridger, Nov. 12, 1861Container: Box 5
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Description: Receipt, John Battiste to W.A. Carter for $67.75, June 24, 1862Container: Box 5
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Description: Copy of account owed by employees of Overland Stage Line to W.A. Carter, certified by Isaac Eaton, July 5, 1862Container: Box 5
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Description: Account owed by W.A. Carter to Robert Campbell & Co., St. Louis, Sept. 4, 1862Container: Box 5
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Military Orders
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Description: Letter, Anson Mills to W.A. Carter, Feb. 10, 1867Container: Box 5
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Description: General Orders No. 6, Order in relation to sutlers, Jan 26, 1867
(also photocopy of these two items)
Container: Box 5
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Memorandum Books
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Description: Memorandum book, 1879Container: Box 5
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Description: Quartermaster's employees (Fort Bridger) account book, no yearContainer: Box 5
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Description: Train book of J.C. Perry, wagon master, 1864Container: Box 5
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The Mrs. Harry Helzer Collection of William A. Carter Papers
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Correspondence
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Description: Capt. John McClintock, Camp Douglas, to W.A. Carter about Hay voucher of Elijah Driskell, June 10, 1867Container: Box 6
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Description: A.W. Street, Salt Lake City, to W.A. Carter, June 11, 1868, enclosing bill for cigarsContainer: Box 6
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Description: A.W. Street, Salt Lake City, to W.A. Carter, Aug. 22, 1868Container: Box 6
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Description: C.G. Hammond, Laramie, to Judge Carter, July 4, 1870Container: Box 6
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Description: Lewis Lowry, Omaha, to W.A. Carter, Sept. 27, 1871Container: Box 6
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Financial and Legal Documents
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Description: Account book, accounts of Companies B and I, 10th Infantry, 1861Container: Box 6
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Description: Day Book, account book for general store, 1863Container: Box 6
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Description: Receipt, M.E. Carter to Pacific Express Co., July 15, 1886Container: Box 6
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Description: Agreement between William A. Carter and Henry B. Beach for Beach to run Carter's mercantile business at Ft. Bridger, Oct. 4, 1892Container: Box 6
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Pamphlet
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Description: Fort Bridger, Wyoming, a brief history by Robert S. Ellison, 1931
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The Argosy Books Collection of William A. Carter Papers
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Ledgers
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Description: General store accounts, Ft. Bridger, Nov. 1, 1858-June 24, 1859Container: Box 7
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Description: Cash book, Livingston, Kinkead & Co. ("care D Rokohl & Co., St. Louis, Mo." no flyleaf), June 26, 1858-Sept. 6, 1859Container: Box 7
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Typed Transcripts
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Description: Background to the diary and letters: Ft. Bridger area history written by a son or daughter of W.A. CarterContainer: Box 7
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Description: Diary of W.A. Carter, Sept. 28, 1857-Dec. 2, 1857Container: Box 7
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Description: Letters of W.a. Carter, 1860-1868, 1877Container: Box 7
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The Joseph M. Roebling Collection of William A. Carter Papers
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Ledgers
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Description: General store accounts, November 1, 1858-June 24, 1859Container: Box 7
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Description: Blotter No. 1, general store accounts, July 21, 1859-Jan. 20, 1860Container: Box 7
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Description: Register of visitors, Officers Club, Fort Bridger, Wyo., 1886-1889
(This item not found on previous inventories. It was found association with Roebling-Argosy material)
Container: Box 7
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Correspondence
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Description: A.P. Lake, Uinta Ind. Agency, to Judge Carter, July 16, 1867, hand-delivered, with envelopeContainer: Box 7
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Description: Jno. W. Clampitt, Special Agent P.O. Dept., to W.A. Carter, Oct. 14, 1867Container: Box 7
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Additional Container Lists
The American Heritage Center is in the process of converting its older container lists to a more accessible format. This link is to an older version of a container list.
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming.
- Petroleum industry and trade -- Wyoming.
Geographical Names
- Fort Bridger, (Wyo.)
Form or Genre Terms
- Diaries.
Occupations
- Judges.
- Merchants.
- Sutlers.
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