Swan Land and Cattle Co Headquarters Stone Hardship through Century
CHUGWATER Wyoming 100 year old Swan headquarters ranch shows 18 room white house built in 1820s era but linked to Swan legacy. The Swan operation once spanned 400k deeded acres and 265k leased acres, riding through blizzards and homestead days before liquidation in the 1970s.
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Chugwater
Wyo
Swan Land and Cattle Co
Wyoming
Curtis Templin
Laramie Plains
Albany County
Alexander Swan
Scotland
America
Union Pacific Railroad
Hat Creek Station House A Nebraska Trail Landmark
The two story log Hat Creek Station near Harrison Nebraska recalls stagecoach robberies and Indian conflicts along the Deadwood Cheyenne route. Built in the 1880s with a 600 foot water tunnel to Sage Creek, it later served as hotel telegraph station store and ranch home.
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Lusk
Hat Creek
Black Hills
Sage Creek
Wyomin
Telegraph Poles Build Historic Ranch House in Wyoming Camp
The Red Cloud Ranch near Jay Em Wyoming uses telegraph poles once linking Cheyenne to Deadwood as its walls. Founded in the 1870s by Col C Coffee the 20000 acre spread remains in the Coffee family now run by Franklin Coffee a California banker. Peach Shaw long managed Red Cloud Ranch and was famed as a Wyoming rodeo star who toured Wembley Stadium in 1924.
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Jay EM
Wyo
Red Cloud
Cheyenne
Deadwood
Col C . Coffee
West
Franklin
California
Coffee
Sioux County
Harrison Co
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Peach Shaw
Wyoming
Wembley Stadium
England
Old Brownrigg House of Guernsey A Rare Stone Log Dwelling
The two story Brownrigg house near Guernsey combines boulders and 16 inch thick logs. Built before 1910 by Dr William R Brownrigg and possibly his wife Eliza Jane, it features white quartz front stones and square 24 by 24 dimensions. The doctor practiced widely and once ran sheep on his land though locals say he was a better physician than rancher.
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William Brownrigg
Eliza Jane
Guernsey
Wyo
Wye
Brownrigg
William R Brownrigg
Griffin House long stood as Wyoming landmark remains
Built in 1882 by English masons for E E Gardner the Griffin House lies 25 miles west of LaGrange at Bear Creek head. The five by six room mansion known to locals as the Griffin House has been abandoned since the early 1960s. Its exterior shows signs of an intended expansion while a 19 step staircase inside was also fashioned in England.
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Lagrange
Wyo
Griffin
E E Gardner
Bear Creek
Wyomin
Historic grout house along Chugwater Creek in Wyoming
The 1881 built white house near Chugwater Creek in eastern Wyoming rises from a ranch once owned by John Hunton. Hunton’s life included frontier ties to Jim Bridger and a later marriage to Blanche Taylor. Now occupied by Roy and Mrs Graham, the aging 30 by 45 foot structure faces structural strain as its storied past endures.
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Wheatland
Wyo
Wyoming
Chugwater Creek
Here
John Hunton
Ft. Laramie
Hunton
Jim Bridger
Mts
Virginia
Cheyenne
Blanche
Huntons
Roy Graham
Raymond
Benny Wilson
Diamond Ranch near CHUGWATER Wyoming a storied site
The Diamond Ranch west of CHUGWATER Wyoming spans 75 000 acres and dates to the 1870s. Founder George Rainsford built a vast horse operation and planned a black cattle breed. Ownership passed to Maj Paul Raborg and later the Obermans, who transformed it into sheep and horse work with a 300 foot stone barn and indoor arena. The Braunschweigs acquired it in 1956 and began a guest ranch in the late 1960s. The ranch served as a church camp and once housed a 2400 pound station and 50 mares among other historic ventures.
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Chugwater
Wyo
West
Diamond Ranch
John Braunschweig
Wyoming
George Rainsford
England
New York
Anheuser Busch Brewing Co
Rainsford
Paul Raborg
Raborg
Maude Oberman
Maudie
Laramie
Obermans
Braunschweig
Hugh McDonald
Methodist Church
Braunschweigs
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Sidney
Nebr Telegraph
White House
Cate
Ogallala
Rawlins
Swan
John Clay
Russell Staats
Templin
Clay
Swan Land and Cattle Company
Chug Valley
South Dakota
Red Cloud Ranch
John Hutton
Walter FE Kinne
LaGrange, Wyo
James Bordeaux
Lallee
Cook
Agate Springs
Blanche Taylor
Chugwater, Wyo
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