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| Keywords: Cooper House, home to the American Studies program at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming LCCN2015632809.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; The house is named for Frank Cooper an English aristocrat who came to Wyoming in the 1870s and created a vast cattle ranching empire Cooper also made a fortune by developing the first successful means to freeze and transport beef In 1904 he sold his land in Wyoming and moved back to England However he retained the mineral rights to his former holdings which proved to be very lucrative The discovery of oil in Coopers Cove and the Rock Creek valley in 1917 started Wyoming's first oil boom Because United States law required that for an individual to retain ownership of mineral rights he had to be resident in the United States of America Cooper made plans to return to Wyoming with his family He died suddenly in 1918 but the Cooper children Richard John and Barbara moved to Laramie and commissioned local architect Wilbur Hitchcock to construct this residence The design of the house was apparently based on a house one of the Coopers had seen in Santa Barbara California ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 069 ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015632809 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/32700/32794a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 32794 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 32794 41 18 6165 0 N 105 34 7071 0 W alt 2207_source exif_heading PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith Cooper Mansion Laramie Wyoming | ||||