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Tom Sun Ranch

Field	Value
name	Tom Sun Ranch
nrhp_type	nhl
image	Tom Sun Ranch.jpg
caption	Overview of the ranch
location	Natrona County, Wyoming, USA
nearest_city	Alcova, Wyoming
locmapin	Wyoming#USA
built	1872
builder	Tom Sun
designated_nrhp_type	December 19, 1960
{{cite web	url	http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=563&ResourceType=Building	publisher=National Park Service	title=Tom Sun Ranch	accessdate=2009-03-22	work=National Historic Landmark summary listing	archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120728031221/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=563&ResourceType=Building	archivedate = 2012-07-28}}
added	October 15, 1966
area	4160 acre
refnum	66000753

Tom Sun Ranch, also known as Sun Ranch, is a historic site along the old Oregon and Mormon trails, about 6 mi (9.7 km) west of Independence Rock, Wyoming on Wyoming Highway 220.

History

The ranch's builder, Thomas Du Beau Soleil (Tom Sun), was a French-Canadian frontiersman who later became a pioneer cattleman. During the 1870s and 1880s, the ranch was typical of many medium-sized ranching operations in cattle country.

In 1882, The Cheyenne Daily Leader, remarked that "the eastern person of inquiring turn of mind who writes to his friends out west to ask what a ranch is like would find his answer in a description of Tom Sun's."

The ranch site was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1960.{{citation At the time of its nomination as a landmark it was one of the best preserved ranches from the cattle ranging period and was 4160 acre in size.

Recent development and renovations

The ranch remained in the Sun family for four generations until 1996 when it was sold to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since that time some of the ranch buildings have been transformed into a visitors' center for nearby Martin's Cove, an important Mormon historic site. Structures on the site have been stabilized and repaired, but the setting has been impacted by the development of parking lots and landscape designs not consistent with the original historic setting. However, large portions of the landmark area, particularly sections in public ownership, continue to retain their historic integrity.

References

{{NRISref
(December 8, 1882). "Tom Sun's Ranch - His Cattle Range on the Sweetwater - How He Uses the Mountains as a Fence". Cheyenne Daily Leader.
"Wyoming's Sun Ranch to Catch Some Visitors". Deseret News.

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