R. Beal Pumphrey, Jr., Collection 1873-1942

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R. Beal Pumphrey, Jr., Collection 1873-1942

R. Beal Pumphrey, Jr., was in the stockyards business in Missouri and Texas.The images in this collection range from photographs of soldiers and cowboys to livestock and other scenes of Texas and Missouri. Other subjects include the oil fields, the trial of members of the 24th infantry for the 1917 Houston race riot and a barbecue by the “Boys of the Old Trail” at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio in 1915.

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The youngest of eight children, William Penn Adair Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 at Rogers Ranch in Oologah, Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma). His parents, Clement Vann Rogers and Mary Schrimsher, were partly of Cherokee descent. While growing up on the family ranch, Will worked with cattle and learned to ride and lasso from a young age. He grew so talented with a rope, in fact, that he was placed in the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once. One went ar...

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R. Beal Pumphrey, Jr. was a native of Taylor, Texas, and the son of a pioneer cattleman. He worked as assistant to the general manager and president of the San Antonio Union Stockyards from 1937 to his death in 1957. Prior to that time he had worked for the Kansas City stockyards. Pumphrey was also a founder of the San Antonio Livestock Exposition. From the guide to the R. Beal Pumphrey, Jr. Collection 63-31., 1873-1942, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of T...

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