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===Establishment of the town=== The town of Chugwater was surveyed and laid out by engineers for the Swan Land and Cattle Co. in 1886. The town grew slowly, but in 1904 a [[Masonic Hall]] was constructed, and the Grant Hotel opened in 1912. After the drought in the early 20th century, many of the early settlers left the area, but a number stayed, and by 1919 the town was incorporated.<ref name=WyoTales2/> As late as the 1940s, Chugwater was still a railroad stop where cattle were loaded for shipment east to the [[Union Stockyards (Omaha)|Union Stockyards]] in [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]], [[Nebraska]]. [[Clayton Danks]], the model for the rider on the Wyoming [[Bucking Horse and Rider]] state symbol, worked on the 2-Bar Ranch near Chugwater early in the 20th century. The bucking horse on the logo, that he rode at the [[Cheyenne Frontier Days]] rodeo in 1909, was Steamboat, who was foaled at Chugwater in 1896.<ref name=WyoTales1>{{cite web|url=http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/frontierdays4.html|title=Frontier Days: Clayton Danks|publisher=wyomingtalesandtrails.com|access-date=September 23, 2013}}</ref> State Representative [[Robert Mills Grant]] was among those who have drove cattle into Chugwater.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcrecordtimes.com/v2_news_articles.php?story_id=2583&page=76|title=For the Record: Robert Mills Grant, May 2, 2012|publisher=Platte County Record Times|access-date=August 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201201239/http://www.pcrecordtimes.com/v2_news_articles.php?story_id=2583&page=76|archive-date=February 1, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The former [[Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives]], [[Harold Hellbaum]], farmed and ranched in Chugwater. He served in the state legislature from 1963 to 1977, with his last term as Speaker.
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