Records, 1880-1960.

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Records, 1880-1960.

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Records are divided into five groups that encompass the activities of the home office in Dundee, Scotland (1881-1952); the American offices in Denver (1880-1954), and Trinidad, Colorado (1890-1926); and the headquarters of the Matador (1880-1961), and Alamositas (1899-1953). Includes financial and legal records, correspondence, land records, payrolls, herd books, range diaries and Board of Director's Minutes. Includes correspondence between the Dundee, Scotland office and the American offices and ranches, and the correspondence among the British investors. Correspondence of managers and division superintendents include: Murdo Mackenzie, Alexander McKay, Alfred Markham Britton, Henry Harrison Campbell, William Sommerville, Arthur B. Ligertwood, John MacBain, J. M. Jackson, John Mackenzie, Maurice J. Reilly, Lewis F. Robertson and John V. Stevens. Also includes Murdo Mackenzie's correspondence from Brazil when he served as manager of the Brazil Land, Cattle and Packing Company from 1912 to 1917.

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Stevens, John V.

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MacKenzie, John A., 1947-

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Campbell, H. H. 1840-1911.

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Ligertwood, Arthur B.

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Sommerville, William, 1800-1878

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MacBain, John, 1867-1922

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Jackson, J.M.D.

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Robertson, Lewis F.

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Reilly, Maurice J.

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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...

Matador Land Cattle Company.

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Britton, Alfred Markham.

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Mackenzie, Murdoch, of Logie

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Prairie Cattle Company

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