Papers, 1932-1974.

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Papers, 1932-1974.

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

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.

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Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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