Guide to the William Pendleton Ricketts Collection

Collection

Identifier: HC-23

Staff Only

Scope and Content

The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, ledgers, photographs, and drafts of his manuscript

Dates

1893-1940

Creator

Ricketts, W. P. (William Pendleton), 1859-1944 (Person)

Language of Materials

English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication of print materials allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Biographical / Historical

William Pendleton (W.P.) Ricketts was a Northern Wyoming rancher and legislator. Born on February 9, 1859 in Lexington, Kentucky, he came west at the age of 17 and found employment as a cowboy in Cheyenne in 1876. Over the next 50 years he developed a large ranch north of Gillette, Wyoming. In addition, he was superintendent of Western Union Beef Company, owner of Western Union, a Campbell County commissioner, and a state legislator (1911-12). He was married to Nettie C. Wilson (1869-1911) and Johannah Barbara Egger (1873-1941). William Pendleton Ricketts died in Sheridan on March 22, 1944

Sources: 50 Years in the Saddle by W.P. Ricketts (1942; “Hon. W.P. Ricketts” in History of Wyoming, edited by I.S. Bartlett, Vol. II (1918), pp. 106-109