Matador Land and Cattle Company Records, 1874-1960

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Matador Land and Cattle Company Records, 1874-1960

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00082/00082-P.html

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

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Texas Tech University,Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library

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Mackenzie, John

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Matador Land and Cattle Company

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Established in 1879 by Alfred Markham Britton, Henry Harrison Campbell, and associates, the ranch covered one and a half million acres in Motley, Cottle, Floyd and Dickens counties of Texas. In 1882 the founders sold their cattle and range rights to a syndicate based in Dundee, Scotland. Additional acreage was leased in south central Kansas, the Texas Panhandle, Canada, South Dakota and Montana and by 1933, the Matador's Texas holdings totaled nearly 900,000 acres. With rare exceptions during pe...

Campbell, H. H. (Henry Harrison), 1840-1911

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Civil War veteran (20th Texas Regiment), cattleman, founder of Matador Ranch (1878), first county judge of Motley County, Texas, 1891. Born in 1840. Came to West Texas in 1877 and established the Matador Cattle Company, parent company of the West Texas ranch. He sold the ranch in 1883 to the Scott syndicate and then established the Campbell Ranch. Helped organize Motley County and later homesteaded a section of land on which the town of Matador, Texas, is now located. His wife was the town's fir...

Robertson, Lewis F.

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Reilly, Maurice J.

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Mackay, Alexander, 1855 or 6-1936

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Ligertwood, Arthur B.

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Stevens, John V.

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Sommerville, W. F. (William Fife), -1890

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MacBain, John, 1867-1922

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Jackson, J. M.

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Prairie Cattle Company

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Britton, Alfred Markham

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Mackenzie, Murdo, 1850-1939

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