Papers, 1873-1957.

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Papers, 1873-1957.

Includes financial material, legal material and correspondence. Collection bulks with legal and financial materials dealing with ranch business and estate and trust management. There is also a considerable amount of correspondence dealing with business and family matters.

29,603 leaves.

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Masterson, Robert Benjamin, 1881-1957

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Masterson, T. B. (Thomas Bennett), 1913-1953

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Masterson, Floyce Taylor

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Masterson, Myrtle

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Masterson, Anna Exum

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Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association

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The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association was organized at Graham, Texas, in 1877 as the Stock-Raisers' Association of North-West Texas. Around 1893 it acquired a large membership from South Texas and became the Texas Cattle Raisers Association. The present title was adopted in 1921 whent he Panhandle and Southwestern Associations merged with the Texas group. With membership extending over several states, it is the largest organization of its kind in the United States. Its membership...

Masterson, Robert Benjamin, 1853-1931

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Masterson family.

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Pioneer ranching family. Came to West Texas from Lampasas, Texas, in 1881. Robert Benjamin (Ben) Masterson began working cattle around Mobeetie, in Wheeler County, Texas. In 1898 he bought 125,000 acres in King and Knox Counties of Texas and started the JY Ranch, which eventually passed to his sons, T.B. (Tom) and Ben, Jr. Additional property was acquired from the old LX range near Amarillo, Texas. T.B. Masterson bred Aberdeen Angus cattle, and so did his son, T.B., Jr. Floyce Masterson, widow o...