urn:taro:ttu.sw.00165 Henry Harrison Campbell: An Inventory of His Papers, 1869-1898 and undated, in the Southwest Collection, Special Collections Libraries Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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July 2003 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Karen Hicks, July 2003. Finding aid written inEnglish Tue Jul 22 15:23:36 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00165 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Henry Harrison Campbell Papers, 1869-1898 and undated Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, May 2003 Descriptive Summary Campbell, H. H. (Henry Harrison), 1840-1911 Henry Harrison Campbell Papers, 1869-1898 and undated Papers related to Henry Harrison Campbell's ranching activities in Motley County in West Texas. S 152.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 wallet (0.1 linear feet)) English. Biographical Sketch

A Civil War veteran (20th Texas Regiment), cattleman, founder of the Matador Ranch (1878), and the first county judge of Motley County Texas (1891), Campbell was born in 1840, and came to West Texas in 1877 and established the Matador Cattle Company, the parent company of the West Texas ranch. He sold the ranch in 1883 to the Scotland syndicate and then established the Campbell Ranch. Campbell helped organize Motley County and later homesteaded a section of land on which the town of Matador, Texas, is now located. His wife was the town's first postmaster. Campbell died in 1911.

 Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence and invitations, financial records such as receipts, an unidentified journal and cash book, and Mr. Campbell's weather diary from 1890. Of particular interest is a letter from A. M. Britton.

 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) Campbell, H. H. (Henry Harrison), 1840-1911 Campbell, H. H. (Henry Harrison), 1840-1911--Archives Britton, A. M. (Andrew Markham) Subjects (Organizations) Koch Matador Cattle Company Places Matador Ranch (Tex.) Motley County (Tex.) Subjects Cattle trade--Texas Ranching--Texas

Gift, 1954

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

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Abel Ramirez, May 2003

 Preferred Citation

Henry Harrison Campbell Papers, 1869-1898 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Pearce, William Martin. The Matador Land and Cattle Company. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Bean, Tom. The Matadors and Other Stories.Dell City, Texas: C. Warren, 1990.

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

Matador Land and Cattle Company Records, 1874-1960 and undated Alexander Mackay Papers, 1886-1936 Collection Inventory Correspondence, 1869-1882 1 Personal and Invitations, 1869-1882 Financial Documents, 1879-1898 2 Receipts, Notes, and Journal, 1879-1898 Literary Production, 1890 3 Campbell's Weather Diary, 1890 Scrapbook Material, undated 4 Invitations and Photograph, undated