Content Description

6 black and white photographic prints and 2 color photographic prints from the Spear Family of Big Horn County, Montana and Sheridan, Wyoming. Collection includes: a view of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Bradford Spear in 1903; Phil Spear, Willis B. Spear, and Willis M. Spear on horseback in about 1915; Willis M. Spear at the Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch circa 1930; Willis and Virginia Spear, 1930s; Willis M. Spear at his Bar V Ranch in the Wolf Mountains of Montana in 1931 with guests including Phim Proctor, Alexander P. Proctor, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, General Hugh Scott, and Virginia Edwards; Willis M. Spears with Mary Dingwall in New Chicago, Montana in the 1930s; Elsa Spear Byron in Sheridan, Wyoming in 1964; and Elsa Spear Byron, Jessamine Spear Johnson, and Willis B. Spear in Sheridan, Wyoming in 1971.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

The majority of the photographs were donated by Elsa Spear Byron, date of donation is unknown.

Language of Description

English

Script of Description

Latin

Restrictions Apply

No