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1. Ferranti, Philip, Colorado State Parks: A Complete Recreation Guide. (Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1996), 99-101.

2. Ibid.

3. Higley, Margory (Hartt), Hartt Family Album. (1992).

4. Niland, John, A History of Sheep Raising in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming. (Cheyenne: Lagumo Corp, 1994), 211-212.

5. Wyoming Historical Institute, The Historical Encyclopedia of Wyoming. (Dallas: Taylor Publishing Co., 1954), 209.

6. Higley, Family Album

7. Burroughs, John Rolfe, Where the Old West Stayed Young. (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962), 143.

8. Wyoming Historical Institute, The Historical Encyclopedia of Wyoming, 209.

9. Lindford, Velma, Wyoming: Frontier State. (Denver: Old West Publishing Co., 1947), 341.

10. Ibid.

11. Wyoming Historical Institute, The Historical Encyclopedia of Wyoming, 209.

12. Lindford, Velma, Wyoming: Frontier State, 342.

13. Higley, Family Album

14. Lindford, Velma, Wyoming: Frontier State, 340.

15. Krakel, Dean F., The Saga of Tom Horn. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982), 228.

16. Ibid, 155.

17. Lindford, Velma, Wyoming: Frontier State, 343.

18. Denver Record Stockman, Special Edition, January 1936; McElroy, John J., County Agricultural Agent, Carbon County, Excerpt from a paper on the Rawlins Sheep Industry, 4.

19. Wyoming Historical Institute, The Historical Encyclopedia of Wyoming, 209.

20. Burroughs, John Rolfe, Where the Old West Stayed Young, 143.

21. State of Wyoming, Secretary of State, Incorporation Certificate, Cow Creek Sheep Company, 12 May 1903, Book 11, page 364.

22. Kinnamen, Dan, book research notes, Carbon County Museum, Rawlins, Wyoming.

23. State of Wyoming, Certificate of Special Meeting to change the name of Geddes Sheep Company, 14 December 1901.

24. Denver Record Stockman, Special Edition, January, 1936; McElroy, John J., 1.

25. Wyoming Wool Growers Association, Historical phases of the sheep industry in Wyoming, 1940, 16.

26. Higley, Family Album

27. Burroughs, John Rolfe, Where the Old West Stayed Young, 143.

28. Higley, Family Album

29. Burroughs, John Rolfe, Where the Old West Stayed Young, 143.

30. Ibid.

31. Ibid.

32. Rawlins Daily Times, 23 December1972; Mrs. Hartt dies Friday in Denver, 17.

33. Harold Johnson (former Hartt attorney), telephone interview by author, 17 August 2001, Denver, CO; notes in possession of author.

34. Catherine Irene Hartt, interview by author; memory of author who is interviewee’s daughter.

35. Kinnamen, Dan, book research notes.

36. Higley, Family Album

37. Johnson, interview.

38. Kinnamen, Dan, book research notes.

39. Johnson, interview.

40. State of Wyoming, Certificate of Incorporation, Yellowstone Sheep Company, 04 October 1907.

41. Johnson, interview.

42. State of Wyoming, Certificate of Proceedings, Cow Creek Sheep Company, Stockholders meeting, 08 December 1914.

43. State of Wyoming, Certificate of increase in Capitol Stock, Amendment # 21036, 28 December 1917.

44. Higley, Family Album.

45. Jessen, Kenneth, Ghost Towns Colorado Style. (Loveland, CO: J. V. Publications, 1998), 93-94.

46. Hahn’s Peak Historical Museum, display sign, Hahn’s Peak, CO, 2001.

47. Wheeler, Rose, God’s Mountain: The Last of the Hahn’s Peak Homesteaders. (Bend, OR: Maverick Publications, 2001), 110.

48. Johnson, interview.

49. Wiggins, Al, The Hahn’s Peak and Beautiful Basin – a Short History. (Hahn’s Peak: Wiggins).

50. Johnson, interview.

51. Ibid.

52. France, John, letter received by author, 31 May 2001, from Rawlins, Wyoming; letter in possession of author.

53. Johnson, interview.

54. Johnson, interview.

55. Rawlins Daily Times, 17 July 1952, Leading Stockman Succumbs in Ambulance, 1.

56. Rawlins Daily Times, 16 July 1952, Services Today for Prominent Stockman, obituary section.

57. Geoff Dobson, email correspondence received by author, 28 May & 1 June 2001; letter in possession of author.

58. Rawlins Daily Times, 3 July 1954, Judge Strips Executors of Powers in Hartt Estate, 16.

59. Dobson, email correspondence.

60. Rawlins Daily Times, 02 July 1954, Testimony Ends in Hartt Case, 16.

61. Johnson, interview.

62. Dobson, email correspondence.

63. Kinnamen, Dan, book research notes.

64. Dobson, email correspondence.

65. Johnson, interview.

66. Kinnamen, Dan, book research notes.

67. State of Wyoming, Notice of Dissolution #774111, 22 September 1958. State of Wyoming Notice of Dissolution #77412, 22 September 1958.

68. State of Wyoming, Notice of Dissolution #80652, 11 September 1959.

69. Harold Johnson, written correspondence received by author, 2 May 2001; letter in possession of author.

70. Kinnamen, Dan, book research notes.

71. Carbon County Journal, 20 February 1909, J.K. Hartt Married, 1.

72. Carbon County Journal, 24 December 1913, About Rawlins Citizen, 5.

73. Carbon County Journal, 04 November 1915, Carbon County Sheep Men Win Lawsuit, 1.

74. Genealogy Trails, Range Wars, Carbon County Wyoming.

(NOTE: References added with 2024 revisions leading to some references being out of numerological order. I did the best I could to link these to sites that can provide further information to interested readers.)