Papers, 1852-1950.

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Papers, 1852-1950.

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Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, and other writings documenting the Dawson family cattle business and related activities. The correspondence series includes letters between various members of the Dawson family, including letters from Si Dawson to his wife Lucy during the cattle drive from N.M. to the Yukon Territory. There are also letters from Si and his wife Lucy from the ranch in Brazil to their daughters Delphine and Dorothy in the United States. The Diaries and Scrapbooks series includes three diaries: the first is a record of Si Dawson's business dealings in 1897, the second is an account written by Si Dawson of the stock drive to the Yukon, and the third is an account by an unidentified person of the ranch in Brazil.

5.6 lin. ft. (10 archives boxes and 12 oversize folders)

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7396717

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Dawson, Siria M.

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Wilson, Delphine Dawson

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Dawson family.

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Members of the Dawson family are descendants of John B. Dawson, a successful cattleman who operated cattle ranches in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. The boundaries of Dawson's ranch on the Vermejo River in New Mexico, which was carved out of the Maxwell Land Grant of 1844, became hotly contested once enormous coal deposits were discovered beneath the soil. Litigation and drought eventually forced Dawson to sell the land in 1901, and he moved his cattle business to Routt County, Colo. Dawson's r...

Dawson, J. Barry (John Barry), 1932-

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Dawson, Lucy

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