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Matador Land and Cattle Company Records, S 662. 1., 1874-1960

Title: Matador Land and Cattle Company Records, 1874-1960

Matador Land and Cattle Company was one of the largest ranches in West Texas during the late 1800s.

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Goodwin, James Allen, 1873-1961. Papers, 1879-1965, 1887-1963.

Title: Papers, 1879-1965, 1887-1963.

Contains correspondence, financial material, scrapbook material, newsclippings, and photographs. Collection bulks (1887-1963) with financial documents consisting of vendor's leins, insurance forms, county and income tax forms, and poll tax receipts.

ArchivalResource: 341 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24263459 View

Matador Land and Cattle Company. Matador Land and Cattle Company minute books, 1882-1940.

Title: Matador Land and Cattle Company minute books, 1882-1940.

Minutes of director's meetings, lists of stock holders and periodical reports, etc., of company incorporated in Dundee, Scotland, for the purpose of raising and marketing livestock in Texas and elsewhere in the United States.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels : negative (Rich. 555:14-15) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26872511 View

Nordyke, Lewis. Papers, 1951.

Title: Papers, 1951.

Consists of Nordyke's article on the Matador Ranch clipped from the AMARILLO DAILY NEWS, July 25, 1951. It was written on the occasion of the closure of the Matador Land and Cattle Company and the breakup of the ranch.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel (2 ft.) : negative.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26297668 View

Matador Land and Cattle Company. Records, 1880-1960.

Title: Records, 1880-1960.

Records are divided into five groups that encompass the activities of the home office in Dundee, Scotland (1881-1952); the American offices in Denver (1880-1954), and Trinidad, Colorado (1890-1926); and the headquarters of the Matador (1880-1961), and Alamositas (1899-1953). Includes financial and legal records, correspondence, land records, payrolls, herd books, range diaries and Board of Director's Minutes. Includes correspondence between the Dundee, Scotland office and the American offices and ranches, and the correspondence among the British investors. Correspondence of managers and division superintendents include: Murdo Mackenzie, Alexander McKay, Alfred Markham Britton, Henry Harrison Campbell, William Sommerville, Arthur B. Ligertwood, John MacBain, J. M. Jackson, John Mackenzie, Maurice J. Reilly, Lewis F. Robertson and John V. Stevens. Also includes Murdo Mackenzie's correspondence from Brazil when he served as manager of the Brazil Land, Cattle and Packing Company from 1912 to 1917.

ArchivalResource: 350, 000 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25718714 View

Matador Land and Cattle Company : [collection] : 1886-1916.

Title: Matador Land and Cattle Company : [collection] : 1886-1916.

ArchivalResource: liinear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28417830 View

Matador Land and Cattle Company. Matador Land and Cattle Company Records, 1882-1951

Title: Matador Land and Cattle Company Records, 1882-1951

Correspondence, news clippings, and reports comprise the Matador Land and Cattle Company Records, 1882-1951, and relate to the company's business operations.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft., 8 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/742050319 View

Matador Land and Cattle Company Records 1942., 1882-1951

Title: Matador Land and Cattle CompanyRecords 1882-1951

Correspondence, news clippings, andreports comprise the Matador Land and Cattle Company Records, 1882-1951, and relateto the company’s business operations.

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Dickens Cattle Corporation. Records, 1951-1970.

Title: Records, 1951-1970.

Includes general correspondence, general office files, legal documents, stock certificates, financial files and contracts, and a copy of the TRI-COUNTY NEWS for Nov. 17, 1970, all relating to the Dickens Cattle Corporation.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels : negative

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26041936 View

Mackay, Alexander, 1856?-1936. Papers, 1886-1936, 1936.

Title: Papers, 1886-1936, 1936.

Collection bulks with literary productions consisting of a typed diary of Mackay's world tour in 1923-1924, and a typescript copy of his account of a trip across the United States in 1885. Also includes microfilmed material consisting of correspondence, newsclippings, photographs and miscellaneous material pertaining to Mackay's death and funeral.

ArchivalResource: 812 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24342716 View

Childress Store (Childress, Tex.). Records, 1898.

Title: Records, 1898.

Consists of a ledger recording types and prices of goods purchased by customers. Notable customers include the Matador Land Cattle Company, Childress County Land and Cattle Company, Frank Collinson, S. M. Swenson and Son, and Charles Goodnight.

ArchivalResource: 204 leaves

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23359508 View

Hamilton, John, Mrs.,. Collection, 1884-1916, (bulks 1891-1916).

Title: Collection, 1884-1916, (bulks 1891-1916).

Includes court briefs and records of court cases involving the Matador Ranch, Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad and Thomas B. Richardson. Also includes deeds, letters by J. M. Jackson, petitions and surveys.

ArchivalResource: 159 leaves

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26340870 View

Charles L. Wood Papers, S 1214. 1., 1901-1981 and undated

Title: Charles L. Wood Papers, 1901-1981 and undated

Records of Charles L. Wood, Texas Tech University Agricultural history professor.

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Quanah, Acme, and Pacific Railway Company. Records, 1901-1972.

Title: Records, 1901-1972.

The Jeanette Cook records include photographs of construction, the first train in Floydada, the Matador Ranch and Roaring Springs, a typed history of the railroad by its president, Charles H. Sommer, and miscellaneous data relating to Hardman County. The remaining include correspondence, legal and financial materials, schedules, blueprints and minutes of company meetings, all pertaining to the construction and operation of the Quanah , Acme, and Pacific line. Included are records of ranches, towns and agribusinesses who had connections and dealings with the road.

ArchivalResource: 240 microfilm reels : negatives

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26200301 View

Pearce, William Martin, Jr., 1913-. Papers, 1932-1974.

Title: Papers, 1932-1974.

Collection documents Pearces's career, research and literary activities. Includes literary productions, newsclippngs, correspondence and articles from historical journals. Much of the material relates to Pearce's book on the Matador Land and Cattle Company, and to work done with Carl Coke Rister on Rister's book about the oil industry. Contains correspondence regarding academic and administrative affairs at Texas Tech. Also contains accounts of archaeological expeditions to sand hill sites in Bailey and Lamb counties of Texas in 1932 and Mexico in 1940. Includes two literary productions by Pearces's mother, Annie E. Bates Pearce, dealing with life on the High Plains in the early twentieth century.

ArchivalResource: 1, 652 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22837394 View