urn:taro:ttu.sw.00104 Block Ranch: An Inventory of Its Papers, 1885-1994 and undated, 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 Abel Ramirez, April 2003. Finding aid written inEnglish Tue Jul 22 15:22:21 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00104 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Block Ranch Papers, 1885-1994 and undated Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, September 1996 Descriptive Summary Block Ranch (N.M.) Block Ranch Papers, 1885-1994 and undated Research materials concerning the Block Ranch in central New Mexico. S 1262.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 wallet (0.1 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

Diana Richardson Chapa is the great-granddaughter of Andrew Richardson, one of the founders of El Capitan Land and Cattle Company, later known as the Block Ranch, in central New Mexico in 1885.

 Scope and Contents

The collection consists of photocopied research materials on the Block Ranch such as correspondence, a small map, and other historical facts.

 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) Richardson, Melvin (M. E.) DeLany, John C. Richardson, Andrew Thurber, Charles S. Thurber, Horace K. Chapa, Diana Richardson Subjects (Organizations) El Capitan Land and Cattle Company (N.M.) Places Block Ranch (N.M.) Lincoln County, (N.M.) Richardson (N.M.) Subjects Ranching--New Mexico

Collection Accession number(s): 94-0058-B and 94-0080-B

Gifts, 1994

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, September 1996

 Preferred Citation

Block Ranch Papers, 1885-1994 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources Coe, Wilbur. Ranch on the Ruidoso: the Story of a Pioneer Family in New Mexico, 1871-1968. New York: Knopf, 1968. Ellis, Richard N. New Mexico, Past and Present: a Historical Reader. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971.

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

Lincoln County, New Mexico, Photograph Collection, 1980-1990, SWCPC 298 Collection Inventory Manuscript Files 1 1 Correspondence, 1991-1994 1 2 Photocopied photographs of the Richardsons, undated 1 3 El Capitan Land and Cattle Company brand placement, undated 1 4 News articles, 1890-1923 and undated 1 5 Obituary, 1923 1 6 El Capitan Land and Cattle Company incorporation records, 1885-1910 1 7 Lincoln County, New Mexico court records, 1940s 1 8 Block Ranch map, undated