University of Wyoming
The Sun Land and Cattle Company was founded by Tom Sun in 1872 outside Rawlins, Wyoming. Tom Sun (1846-1909) was born in Vermont and worked in the west as a trapper before serving in the Civil War as a construction worker. In 1886 Sun worked as a government guide and U.S. army scout at Fort Steele, Wyoming. Sun later entered into a ranching partnership with Edwin C. Johnson and John E. Reid and they established the Bar 11 and Turkey Track Ranches.
Collection contains correspondence (1878-1935), mainly between Tom Sun and partners Edwin C. Johnson and John E. Reid; Sun Land and Cattle Company ledgers and other miscellaneous financial materials (1881-1923); legal agreements (1879-1896) dealing with cattle ranching, mining, and water rights; miscellaneous photographs; maps of Wyoming (1895-1951); and a copy of a diary kept by Edwin C. Johnson on a hunting trip with Tom Sun in 1878.
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There are no known other archival collections created by the Sun Land and Cattle Company at the date of processing.
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