Summer Sheep and Cow Range, Medicine Bow National Forest

Map

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Carbon County Museum

Name/Title

Summer Sheep and Cow Range, Medicine Bow National Forest

Entry/Object ID

2021.1279.12.143

Description

A 1940 map of Medicine Bow National Forest with color-coded markup showing summer range leases of public grazing land inside the national forest. Lease boundaries are marked and each lease has the name of the ranch written inside. Color-coding designates whether the range is for sheep and cattle, or sheep only. Most of map is for forest inside Carbon County, but some ranges extend down into Colorado. Marked ranch leases include: Sage Creek Sheep Company, Divide Sheep Company, Cow Creek Sheep Company, Continental Sheep Company, Rasmussen Sheep Company, Jens Hanson[Hansen?] Estate, Swanson and Johnson, Blake Sheep Company, Pioneer Sheep Company, Rambler Sheep Company, Andy Nelson Sheep Company, Leo Sheep Company, I. C. Miller Estate, Savage Land and Livestock Company, Quealy Land and Livestock Company, Dana Meadows Sheep Company. This map is in 3 pieces: a) Carbon County section, b) Colorado section, and c) a cutout legend.

Collection

Archives and Library