The Erastus Beck mercantile ledger (1901) was presented to Beck by the Agencia del Timbre de la Ascencion to be used for his mercantile business located in the Colonia Diaz, a Latter Day Saint colony in Mexico. The ledger consists of accounting notations regarding merchandise sold along with a listing of about 250 different buyers of more than a thousand horses. Each of these entries list the buyer, the number of horses, the colors, the brands, and the initials of the clerk.

The Joseph Ray and Lorna Siddoway Broadbent papers (1903-2006) include the personal papers of Joseph and Lorna Broadbent, information related to Joseph Broadbent's livestock businesses, and papers and scrapbooks from various organizations they were involved in including livestock associations and the PTA.

The Thomas George Brown papers (1891-1918) consist of correspondence, a ledger page, postal mailers, receipts, and broadsides.

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."

The Deseret Livestock Company photograph collection contains images documenting company activities in livestock raising.

The W. A. Dodge letter to Frank J. Hubbard (1891) provides an impression of what cowboying and the life of a cowboy was in 1891. Dodge wrote the letter to Hubbard of Plainfield, New Jersey, who, from the contents of the letter, had loaned money to Dodge as well as being his interested friend. W. A. Dodge worked for Swan Land and Cattle Company at the time the letter was written.

The Alma O. Erekson papers (1925-1991) contain materials relating to the operation of the Erekson family's mink farm in Northern Utah during the 1930s to 1960s. Correspondence, publications, reports, minutes, news articles, advertising materials, and other papers regarding the family business, and fur farming in general, are included.

The Stanton G. Fisher diary [typescript] (1875-1877) contains a day-by-day account of Fisher's life. Stanton G. Fisher (b. 1852) was involved with animal husbandry and related and miscellaneous business and mining in Utah.

This collection consists of photocopied transcriptions of letters between Charlie Haynes and his wife, Jennie, while Charlie worked on an 1871 cattle drive from Texas to Kansas.

The Idaho Stage Company ledger (1886-1914) details the services and accounts of this company. The ledger also includes horse and cattle registers. The use of stage coaches was prevalent in the western United States during the latter half of the nineteenth century due to limited railroad lines at that time.

The Juab County Sheep Owners' Association records (1870-1905) include meeting minutes, constitution, and account book.

The Lily Park Stock Growing Association records (1884-1893) contain contracts, deeds, bonds, meeting minutes, letters, and bills. Originally called the Lily Park Stock Grazing Company, this cattle company was organized and incorporated in Salt Lake City and operated in Utah and Colorado.

The Daniel McElroy papers (1911-1922) consist of a contract from a land sale in Nevada in 1911; report on a canal project in Sweetwater and Uintah counties, Wyoming; and papers relating to sheep speculation in 1922. Also included is a real-estate map of Federal Heights, Salt Lake City, Utah.

The McIntyre family ranch scrapbook [photocopy] (1840-2006) is about the family ranch near the Tintic Mining Region in Juab County.

The McIntyre Ranch digital photograph collection contains personal family photographs and images relating to cattle ranching during the mid 20th Century. Images include snapshots of family members at their home in Salt Lake City and on the McIntyre Ranch in Leamington, Utah. Also included are photographs of men branding calves, Angus Breeders Field Day, a prize Angus bull, and horses on the McIntyre Ranch.

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.

The H. Byron Mock papers (1881-2004) consist of personal and business materials. Mock served for a number of years in the Bureau of Land Management as Director of the Colorado-Utah Region, as a member of the Public Land Law Review, and also had a private legal firm. The majority of his work deals with mining and grazing rights in the West.

The Neponset Land and Livestock Company records (circa 1890-1899) consist of photocopies of the records of this Evanston, Wyoming, ranching concern.

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.

The Preston Nutter Corporation photograph collection contains photographs of members of the Nutter and Price families, photographs of the Nutter Ranch; photographs and postcards of World War I collected by Gen. Howard C. Price.