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Deseret Live Stock Company

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Deseret Live Stock Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0105
Abstract The Deseret Live Stock Company records (1886-1958) consist of legal documents, financial papers, correspondence, subject files, minutes, and other materials. The Deseret Live Stock Company was formed in 1891 by several northern Utah sheep ranchers to promote "stock raising, slaughtering, butchering, mercantile business, and other commercial enterprises in the Territory of Utah and other states in the U.S."
Dates: 1886-1958

Deseret Livestock Company photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0105
Abstract The Deseret Livestock Company photograph collection contains images documenting company activities in livestock raising.
Dates: 1925-1945

Jean Ann McMurrin thesis

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0598
Abstract The Jean Ann McMurrin thesis (1989) is titled, The Deseret Live Stock Company: The First Fifty Years, 1890-1940 and provides a history of this sheep and cattle company that developed into Utah's largest land-owning ranch.
Dates: 1989

Ernest L. Poulson papers

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 0594
Abstract The Ernest L. Poulson papers (1891-1985) include an autobiography; research material (including correspondence, interviews, notes, and news clippings) on the Deseret Live Stock Company; and other short biographies and articles on land management in Utah, Farmers' State Bank (in Bountiful, Utah), and live stock. Audio cassettes contain interviews with Sterling S. McMurrin, Grace Kerr, and Irvin J. Cox.
Dates: 1891-1985

Ernest Poulson photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0674
Abstract The Ernest Poulson photograph collection consists of three photographs from Ernest L. Poulson's article on the Deseret Livestock Company for the Utah Historical Quarterly.
Dates: 1891-1985