urn:taro:ttu.sw.00074 Slaughter Land and Cattle Company: An Inventory of Its Records, 1909-1916 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, February 2001. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:21:49 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00074 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Slaughter Land and Cattle Company Records, 1909-1916 and undated Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, 2000 Descriptive Summary Slaughter Land and Cattle Company Slaughter Land and Cattle Company Records, 1909-1916 and undated Records from 1909-1916 of the Slaughter Land and Cattle Company, a cattle breeding venture that was established in 1873. S 926.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 box and 1 wallet (0.4 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

Born in 1837 in Sabine County, Texas, Christopher Columbus (C. C.) established frontier ranch in Palo Pinto County, Texas, in 1857 with his father, George Webb Slaughter, and his brothers. During the Civil War, C. C. served in the frontier militia and in the Texas Rangers. Afterwards, he 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.

C. C. Slaughter and Company, a cattle breeding venture, was established in 1873. Around 1877, C. C.'s ranch, the Long S, was one of the largest ranches in West Texas. His large holdings helped earn C. C. the title, Cattle King of Texas.

C. C. married twice, first to Cynthia Anna Jowell in 1861, with whom he had five children, and then to Carrie Averill in 1877, with whom he had four children. Before his death in 1919, he had founded the American National Bank of Dallas (1884), and cofounded the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (1877), the Texas Baptist Education Commission (1897) and the Baylor Hospital of Dallas, Texas (1904).

 Scope and Contents

The collection contains some correspondence, financial records, minutes, legal documents from 1909-1916 detailing some activities of the Slaughter Land and Cattle Company.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons) Handley, W. B. Slaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919 Slaughter, George Morgan Subjects (Organizations) C. C. Slaughter Cattle Company Slaughter Land and Cattle Company Places Palo Pinto County (Tex.)--History Roswell (N.M.)--History Slaughter Ranch (Tex.) Slaughter Ranch (Tex.)--History Subjects Agriculture--Texas--History Cattle breeders--Texas--History Cattle trade--Texas--History Livestock--Breeding Oil well drilling--Texas, West Petroleum industry and trade--Texas Petroleum industry and trade--New Mexico Ranches--New Mexico Ranchers--Texas Ranches--Texas Acquisition

Gifts, 1966-1976

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, 2000

 Preferred Citation

Slaughter Land and Cattle Company Records, 1909-1916 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources Murrah, David J. C. C. Slaughter, Rancher, Banker, Baptist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. Murrah, David J. A Cattle Kingdom on Texas' Last Frontier: C. C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch. Thesis (M.A.)--Texas Tech University, 1970.

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

Ira Byrd oral history interview [sound recording], 1969 Hiley Thompson Boyd, Jr. oral history interview [sound recording], 1970 Nettie Hyatt and Joe Bridges oral history interview [sound recording], 1975 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jennings oral history interview [sound recording], 1973 Mrs. M.C. Lindsey oral history interview [sound recording], 1975 Lynn County (Tex.), Photographs, 1900-1950 Ralph McWhorter oral history interview [sound recording], 1979 Mrs. J. F. Reeves oral history interview [sound recording], 1970s Jot Smyth oral history interview [sound recording], 1959 Collection Inventory Manuscripts 1 1 Correspondence, 1912-1913 1 2 Correspondence, 1913 1 3 Correspondence, 1914 1 4 Correspondence, 1915-1916 and undated 1 5 Financial Documents, 1913-1916 and undated Wallet 1 1 Legal Documents, 1913-1915 and undated Wallet 1 2 Minutes, 1914 Wallet 1 3 News clippings, 1913-1915 and undated Wallet 1 4 Printed Material, 1909-1910