AHJ_ah11470 Inventory of the Swan Company records, 1877-1984 Swan Company records Processed by Loreley Moore and Andrea Gietzen University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
American Heritage Center Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 307.766.2574 Fax:307.766.5511 Email:ahcref@uwyo.edu URL:http://ahc.uwyo.edu/
2008

University of Wyoming

 Finding aid encoded by Andrea Gietzen April, 2008 Finding aid is in English Collection Summary Swan Company Swan Company records 1877-1984 11470 192.85 cubic ft. (222 boxes) University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English Records of a livestock company located in southeastern Wyoming. Arrangement of the Collection

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.

History of Swan Company

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.

Scope and Content

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.

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 Swan Company at the date of processing.

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

The collection was processed by Loreley Moore and Andrea Gietzen from 2007-2008 and updated by Jamie Greene in January 2020, March 2022, and April 2025.

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

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 Access Terms Swan Land and Cattle Company. Cattle trade -- Wyoming -- 19th century. Cattle trade -- Wyoming -- 20 century. Sheep ranchers -- Wyoming -- 19th century. Sheep ranchers -- Wyoming -- 20 century. Ranching -- Wyoming -- 19th century. Ranching -- Wyoming -- 20 century. Wyoming -- History -- To 1889. Wyoming -- History -- 1890-1918. Wyoming -- History --1919-1945. Wyoming -- History -- 1946- <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> Agriculture and Natural Resources Ranching Business, Industry, Labor, and Commerce Businesses and Corporations Wyoming Container List Series I. Correspondence

Sub-series 1. Subject

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 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 10 John Clay & Co. 1930-1933 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 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 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 16 1 Konlod Ranch 1932-1935 La Grange Elevator 1936-1938 16 2-3 1936 16 4 1937 16 5 1938 16 6 La Grange Lumber Company 1928-1931 Lawyer, William F. 1930-1938 16 7 1930 16 8 1931-1933 16 9 1934-1938 Lee, Ray E. (Attorney) 1939-1946 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 16 19 Lewis, Claude 1928-1944 Lookout Ranch Foreman 1926-1946 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 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 218Staats, 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 222Swan Company envelopesundated 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 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 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 34 16 1939, 1941 34 17 1942-1946 34 18 1946-1947 34 19 1948 35 1 1949-1962 35 Union Pacific Railroad 1927-1954 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 37 1 1943 37 2 1943 37 3 1944, 1946 37 4 1947-1949 37 United States - Social Security Board 1938-1942 37 5 1938-1941 37 6 1942 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 38 1 1930-1935 38 2 1936-1937 Wyoming Development Company 1926-1942, 1944-1948, 1973-1974, 1980 38 3 1926-1932 38 4 1933-1942 38 5 1944-1945 38 6 1946-1948, 1973-1974, 1980 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 220Christmas Greetings booklets by John Clay 1921, 1933 Sub-series 2. Alphabetical

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

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 Records

Sub-series 1. General Finance

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 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 217Agreements1917-1928 217Blank Money Notesundated 217Certificates of Abstracter1882-1902 217Chugwater Valley Irrigation Company (articles of incorporation, stock tax, telegrams, checks)1913-1958 217Legal documents - miscellaneous (leases, deeds, agreements, contracts, notes, certificates)1882-1973 Legal documents:1879-1902 222Land Patent Letters1879-1898 217Warranty Deeds and Abstract of Titles1883-1943 222Warranty Deeds1880-1902 217Limited Annual Reports and Balance Sheets1889-1951 219Certificates - high school diplomas, intermediate department promotion, memberships1910-1921 220Annual Report and Balance Sheets - 9th annual reportDecember 31, 1934 220Livestock reports: Transfer Report for a Percheron StallionDecember 31, 1910 220Report to Shareholders - Swan Land and Cattle CompanyDecember 20, 1887 220Special Resolution for Transfer of CompanyDecember 15, 1944 220Swan Land Titles - Platte County, Wyoming Land TitleMarch 15, 1876 Sub-series 2. Tax Records

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 1887-1965 198 Swan Co. Ranches 1887-1965 Series IV. Artifacts

193 Newspaper clippings regarding Two Bar Cattle Ranch and home of Curtis Templin 1948-1960 222Sacksundated 199 Salt samples, rice bags and obsidian undated Series V. Maps

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 221Lands of the Swan Land and Cattle Company in Platte, Goshen, and Laramie Counties, Wyoming and Scottsbluff County, NebraskaFebruary 1912