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Descriptive Summary
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Index Terms
Related Material
Administrative Information
Additional Sources
Description of Series
Manuscripts
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Slaughter Land and Cattle Company:
An Inventory of Its Records, 1909-1916 and undated, at the
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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Creator |
Slaughter Land and Cattle Company
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Title: |
Slaughter Land and
Cattle Company Records,
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Dates: |
1909-1916 and undated |
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Abstract: |
Records from 1909-1916
of the Slaughter Land and Cattle Company, a cattle breeding venture that was
established in 1873. |
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Collection # |
S 926.1 |
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Quantity: |
1 box and 1 wallet
(0.4 linear feet) |
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Language |
English. |
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Repository: |
Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University |
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).
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The collection contains some correspondence, financial records,
minutes, legal documents from 1909-1916 detailing some activities of the
Slaughter Land and Cattle Company.
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Access Restrictions
Open for research
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The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Handley, W. B. |
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Slaughter, C. C.
(Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919 |
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Slaughter, George
Morgan |
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Subjects (Organizations) |
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C. C. Slaughter Cattle
Company |
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Slaughter Land and Cattle
Company |
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Places |
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Palo Pinto County
(Tex.)--History |
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Roswell
(N.M.)--History |
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Slaughter Ranch
(Tex.) |
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Slaughter Ranch
(Tex.)--History |
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Subjects |
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Agriculture--Texas--History |
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Cattle
breeders--Texas--History |
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Cattle
trade--Texas--History |
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Livestock--Breeding |
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Oil well drilling--Texas,
West |
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Petroleum industry and
trade--Texas |
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Petroleum industry and
trade--New Mexico |
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Ranches--New
Mexico |
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Ranchers--Texas |
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Ranches--Texas |
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For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections: |
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- 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
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Slaughter Land and Cattle Company Records, 1909-1916 and undated,
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, Texas
Gifts, 1966-1976
Abel Ramirez, 2000
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Murrah, David J.
"C. C. Slaughter, Rancher, Banker, Baptist.
"Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. |
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Murrah, David J.
"A Cattle Kingdom on Texas' Last Frontier: C.
C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch. "Thesis (M.A.)--Texas Tech University,
1970. |
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Manuscripts |
| box |
folder |
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1 |
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Correspondence,
1912-1913 |
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Correspondence,
1913 |
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Correspondence,
1914 |
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Correspondence,
1915-1916 and undated |
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Financial Documents,
1913-1916 and undated |
| wallet |
folder |
| Wallet 1 |
1 |
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Legal Documents,
1913-1915 and undated |
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Minutes,
1914 |
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News clippings,
1913-1915 and undated |
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Printed Material,
1909-1910 |
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