Red River Valley Co. Records 1865-1947

Mitchell, Albert G.

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Tisdall, Arthur J., d. 1898.

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Red River Valley Co.

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A cattle run in New Mexico for the Red River Valley Company. Part of Pictorial Collection, PICT 000-086 (Box 1, Album 1). The Red River Valley Company, formerly the Bell Ranch, was a three quarters-of-a-million-acre ranch lying along the Canadian River in northeastern New Mexico. Bell Ranch was originally two Mexican land grants, the Baca Location No. 2 and the vast Pablo Montoya Grant of 1824. After the war with Mexico in 1846-1847, the Pablo Montoya heirs applied for c...

O'Donel, Charles M., 1860-1933

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Charles M. O'Donel, ranch manager, was born in County Mayo, Ireland in 1860. Following his education "on the continent", he graduated from Sandhurst Military College, Britain's "West Point". O'Donel resigned a position as captain in the British army to come to the United States with his brother, Manus. They arrived in New Orleans; Charles continued on to Texas, where he started working as a cowboy in 1885. O'Donel arrived at the Bell Ranch on June 2, 1898 as general manager, succeeding Arthur J....