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Union Cattle Company Bond (87920)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:65.00 USD Estimated At:130.00 - 250.00 USD
Union Cattle Company Bond  (87920)
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65.00USD+ (16.25) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2019 Jan 25 @ 08:56UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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$1,000 bond dated 1886 from the Union Cattle Company incorporated in Wyoming Territory. Coupons 3-20 still attached. Vignette of a bull and nice bright gold seal. Signed by Thomas Sturgis president and FK Sturgis treasurer. Signed by famous Wyoming cattle entrepreneur Thomas Sturgis as president. He was secretary of the Laramie County Stock Association three years after it was organized and served for eleven years; he was one of the most influential men in this area's cattle business. In 1883 Sturgis submitted a proposal for the disposition of mavericks. He assumed that any man ran his own head of cattle, other than the big land owners, had no possibility of ownership and must be a cattle rustler. This train of thought lead directly to the Wyoming Range Wards. The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a range conflict that took place in Johnson County, Wyoming from 1889 to 1893. The conflict began when cattle companies started ruthlessly persecuting alleged rustlers in the area, many of whom were innocent settlers that competed with them for land, livestock and water rights. As tensions swelled between the large established ranchers and the smaller settlers in the state, violence finally culminated in Powder River Country, when the ranchers hired armed gunmen to invade the county. The gunmen's initial incursion in the territory aroused the small farmers and ranchers, as well as the state lawmen, and they formed a posse of 200 men that led to a grueling stand-off. The siege ended when the United States Cavalry on the orders of President Benjamin Harrison relieved the two forces, although further fighting persisted in the following months. Prag Collection State: Wyoming City: Wyoming Cattle: Cheyenne Date: 1886