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`The book THE DAY OF THE CATTLEMAN by Ernest Staples Osgood states:
In 1883 the Swan Land and Cattle company was organized through combining three ranch properties with a range from Fort Steele, Wyoming on the west to Ogallala, Nebraska on the east, and from the Union Pacific railroad to the Platte River. These companies sold to the new company some 30,000 acres of land,...over a hundred thousand head of stock and rights on a range one hundred miles long and fifty to one hundred miles wide, for a purchase price of $2,588,825. The new company was capitalized at $3,000,000, which was raised to $3,750,000 to provide for the purchase of over half a million acres of Uniobn Pacific alternate sections.
Following the hard winter of 1886 many of the large ranches went broke. In May, 1887 the Swan Land and Cattle Company, largest of all the northern companies, went into the hands of the receiver.
I suggest you try posting to the Wyoming state Genweb at this address:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wygenweb/
Someone there may be able to help you.
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