Papers, 1966-1968, (bulks 1968).

Slaughter, C. C., Jr.

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Littlefield Lands.

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Gracy, David B.

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Archivist, author, educator. Born in 1941 in Austin, Texas. Awarded B.A. and M.A. by the University of Texas at Austin. Awarded Ph. D. by Texas Tech University in 1971. Has been employed by many archival institutions including Texas State Archives (1960; Director, 1977-1986), University of Texas Archives (1961-1963), Texas State Historical Association (1963-1966); Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University (1966-1971); Georgia State Archives (1971-1977). Taught history at Texas Tech University ...

Yellow House Land Company

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This trust estate, an agency of Malcolm Hiram Reed, organized in 1923 to purchase 300,000 acres of land in Hockley and Lamb counties of Texas from the heirs of George W. Littlefield. The land was then resold in small plots to farmers. It is the successor of the Littlefield Lands Company. Like other land developers their company helped to settle the West Texas region, which eventually prospered through the decades. From the guide to the Yellow House Land Company Records, S1226. 1., 19...

Slaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919

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Trial driver, Texas Ranger, banker, philanthropist, and cattleman. Born 1837 Sabine County, Texas. With his father George Webb Slaughter and brothers, established frontier ranch in Palo Pinto County, Texas, in 1857. Participated in Civil War as frontier militia and Texas Rangers. Drove cattle over Chisholm Trail and later moved operations to West Texas where by 1905 he owned 40,000 cattle and controlled over one million acres. Founder of American National Bank of Dallas (1884), and cofounder of ...

Littlefield, George W. (George Washington), 1842-1920

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George Washington Littlefield, born June 21, 1842 and died November 10, 1920, owned cotton plantation in Gonzales, Texas. Littlefield served in Civil War under Albert Sydney Johnson, (Terry's Rangers), rising to the rank of Major. Littlefield owned several ranches in Texas and New Mexico. In 1901 with his nephews, J. P. and T. P. White, he bought The Yellow House Ranch from the Capitol Syndicate. Littlefield founded the American National Bank in Austin, served on the University of Texas Board of...

Soash, W. P. (William Pulver), 1877-1961

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A real estate developer and land colonizer in the early twentieth century, Soash was born in 1877. He founded the W. P. Soash Land Company in 1905. Operating from Waterloo, Iowa, and later in Florida and West Texas, he sold land developments in the Midwest, the Plains States, and Florida, but principally in Texas. Soash founded, with members of the C. C. Slaughter family, the Lone Star Land Company in 1924, and was extensively engaged in the sale and purchase of oil leases and royal...

Lone Star Land Company

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Land company. Formed in 1924 by William Pulver Soash and members of the C.C. Slaughter famiy for the purpose of selling Slaughter lands in West Texas, primarily in Howard, Borden, Dawson, Martin, Lamb, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, and Hartley counties of Texas. Most of the company's activities were completed by 1944 and the firm dissolved in 1955. From the description of Records, 1879-1955, (bulks 1915-1955). (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 24324054 ...

Slaughter, E. Dick (Edgar Dick), 1873-1935

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Slaughter, Robert

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