The Swim family.
Photographs, land patents and family trees of the Swim family, arranged by generation, from the oldest to the youngest. Undated pictures keep their place in the family; dates and names are as recorded. 1 photograph · 2 land patents.
The homesteading generation
The men and women who took up land in the valley. From the accounts of Swim.
View photograph ↗Frank Swim
"Frank Swim" is written on the print.
From: Swim ↗Land patents
Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Frank W. Swim, 1913
Federal land patent signed 1 August 1913 (BLM serial IDBL 0001257). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to John W. Butler, 1913
Federal land patent signed 26 May 1913 (BLM serial IDBL 0001258). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.