Sports and Recreation Collections
The AHC primarily has collections documenting several areas of recreation relevant to Wyoming, including fishing, hunting, trapping, guns and shooting, forest and parks usage, mountaineering, and dude ranching. Of particular note are the holdings related rodeo.
Some of our prominent Sports and Recreation holdings are detailed below.
Additional holdings can be located by searching our online inventories
(select University of Wyoming as the institution), or by searching our online catalog.
Noteworthy Collections
Neal L. Blair Papers
Blair was an author, Wyoming Game and Fish Commission deputy game warden ,and manager/editor of special publications. His papers contain personal files, publications, photographs, and subject files from his time as a deputy game warden, photographs used in Wyoming Game and Fish Commission publications, other publications, and research and subject files.
Wyoming Outdoor Council Records
The Wyoming Outdoor Council is a private organization concerned with the conservation of natural resources in Wyoming. The collection contains correspondence (1966-1980) and subject files (1954-1983), containing newspaper clippings, reports, research notes and reports regarding conservation, recreation, industrial development, the petroleum and mining industries, environmental protection, land use and water resources in Wyoming.
Izaak Walton League of America, Wyoming Division Records
The Izaak Walton League was formed in Chicago by a group of fishermen in 1922. The League quickly became a national organization committed to the preservation of natural resources with local chapters and state divisions established across the U.S. The records of the Wyoming Division document its activities in the preservation of natural resources and wildlife conservation, land use and grazing policies, fencing on public lands, national parks, national League conventions, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the Wyoming Outdoor Council, and the Wyoming Department of Game and Fish.
