Scrapbook

Name/Title

Scrapbook

Entry/Object ID

1954.222.0082

Scope and Content

A manilla folder made into a scrapbook with a brad and string closure. Written on top cover in green ink: Given to Carbon County Museum by Mrs. Irene Marvin. Kept when she was the Historian for the Carbon County Historical Society. Title at center, "Wyoming History 1869-1883." Dates of clippings are 1/1/1958-1/1/1959. Subjects include: donation of Judge T. Blake Kennedy's papers to University of Wyoming; Governor John Campbell's complaints about the Fort Laramie Treaty and the land ceded to the Native Americans, 1868, (several columns deal with this subject); murder of Mr. Oliver Lamereaux; Wind River Indian Reservation; Correspondence of Governor John Campbell's is in State Archives; Union Pacific Railroad and Indian raids lessened on route towns; territorial organizational problems and duties; First Territorial legislature meeting and laws passed; gambling laws; Women's Suffrage, 2nd Territorial legislature; John M. Thayer, second territorial governor; Indian Resistance to white encroachment; county organization; John W. Hoyt, 3rd Territorial Governor, many columns; General Grant in Wyoming; Yellowstone Park, roads to, and development of; William Hale, fourth territorial governor, many columns; cattle, railroad, agriculture; clipping and photo of Dr. C. W. Jeffrey, celebrating 39 years of practice; South Pass; Crook County; Cost of raising cattle, shipping and profit in 1880"s.

Collection

Archives and Library