University of Wyoming
Virginia Wolff and her husband Ronald purchased the Two Bar Ranch, located outside of Wheatland in Platte County, Wyoming, in 1968. The ranch had been established in 1878 and was one of the original five ranches owned by the Swan Land and Cattle Company. The ranch was originally a cattle operation, but switched over to sheep around 1904.
Wolff compiled a history of the ranch and contacted Frances Britton Morgan (1909- ), regarding her parents, Furman (d. 1937) and Lenna May Cleveland Britton (1891-1967) who took their wedding trip through southeastern Wyoming in 1906. Furman Britton's nephew, Charles Garwood, established a floral shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the 1910s.
Collection contains an 85 page typescript copy of the manuscript of Virginia Wolff's "History of the Two Bar Ranch," (1971); a 1979 letter from Frances Britton Morgan to Virginia Wolff regarding her parent's honeymoon; an undated reminiscence by Morgan of her mother; and 6 photographs of Charles Garwood and his floral shop, Frances Britton Morgan, and her parents.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Virginia Wolff at the date of processing.
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