urn:taro:ttu.sw.00090 Bar S Ranch: An Inventory of Its Records, 1872-1939, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Texas Tech University MS 41041 Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806) 742-3749 Fax: (806) 742-0496 Webpage: http://www.swco.ttu.edu Contact Person: Reference Archivist
April 2003 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Karen Hicks, April 2003. Finding aid written inEnglish Tue Jul 22 15:22:00 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00090 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Bar S Ranch Records, 1872-1939 Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, July 2002 Descriptive Summary Bar S Ranch (Tex.) Bar S Ranch Records, 1872-1939 Records and activities of the Bar S Ranch in west Texas. S 64.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 box (1.0 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

Located in Reagan County and Irion County, Texas, this 172,000 acre ranch was originally owned by the Sawyer Cattle Company (1884-1954). Later it was owned by the Blakley Braniff Association from 1954, when W. A. Blakley purchased the ranch, until 1975, when the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children became the owner. The ranch was managed by Louis Farr and his son and grandson, Louis Farr, Jr. and Louis Farr III, from 1918-1969. The name of the ranch was changed to Rocker b in 1954.

 Scope and Contents

The collection contains business correspondence, legal documents such as leases, contracts, warranty deeds, bonds, and agreements, and financial documents such as promissory notes, receipts, redemption certificates, and cancelled checks of the Bar S Ranch (later the Rocker b).

 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) Farr, Louis L. (Louis Lee), 1865-1930 Subjects Ranches--Texas Ranching--Texas Places Bar S Ranch (Tex.) Irion County (Tex.) Reagan County (Tex.) Rocker b Ranch (Tex.) Tom Green County (Tex.)

Gift, 1970

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, July 2002

 Preferred Citation

Bar S Ranch Records, 1872-1939, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources

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

Farr, Louis Lee Farr III oral history interview [sound recording], 1970 El Capote Ranch Collection 1830-1917 and undated Louis Lee Farr Papers, 1853-1948 Mrs. Louis L. Farr Jr. oral history interview [sound recording], 1970 Louis L. Farr III oral history interview [sound recording], 1970 Esther Wilson Patterson oral history interview [sound recording], 1975 Collection Inventory Correspondence 1 1 Business, 1884-1938 Legal Documents 1 2 Assorted Items, 1872-1939 Financial Documents 1 3 Assorted, 1881-1936 1 4 General Land Office Receipts, 1884-1902 1 5 Redemption Certificates, 1885 1 6 Cancelled Checks, 1894-1908