Papers, 1867-1909.

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Papers, 1867-1909.

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Includes docket enteries and case papers relating to claims for damages resulting from Indian depredations against John Hittson, brought before the U.S. Court of Claims.

1 microfilm reel (60 ft.) : negative

Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Hittson, John Nathan, 1831-1880.

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Born Oct. 11, 1831, in Tennessee. Came with his family to Palo Pinto County, Texas, in 1851. Married Salina Frances Brown, 1851, and had ten children. In 1857 he was elected the county's first sheriff. Hittson began his rise as as cattleman after the Civil War and in 1867 he and John S. Chisum supplied beef to the Navajos in exile at Fort Sumner. In the 1870s, their cattle drives were extended into New Mexico. Hittson's Three Circle Ranch headquarters was on Battle Creek in Callahan County. In 1...

United States. Court of Claims

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