urn:taro:ttu.sw.00171 John Wesley Mooar: An Inventory of His Papers, 1871-1917 and undated, in the Southwest Collection, Special Collections Libraries 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
June 2003 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Karen Hicks, July 2003. Finding aid written in English Tue Jul 22 15:23:38 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00171 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the John Wesley Mooar Papers, 1871-1917 and undated Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, June 2003 Descriptive Summary Mooar, John Wesley, 1846-1918 John Wesley Mooar Papers, 1871-1917 and undated Papers relating to business activities of brothers John Wesley Mooar and J. Wright Mooar as buffalo hunters and ranchers in Texas. S 720.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 2 small boxes (0.6 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

A buffalo trader and rancher, Mooar was born in 1846 in Pownal, Vermont. He lived in New York from 1861 to 1872, receiving and selling buffalo hides sent by his brother J. Wright Mooar. He joined his brother in Kansas in 1872, and they moved to Texas in 1873. With the decline of the buffalo trade, the brothers established the Mooar Brothers Ranch in Scurry County, Texas. John Wesley Mooar married Margaret McCollum and they had two children, Lydia Louise Mooar and John Combs Mooar. In addition to his ranching and business interests, Mooar assisted in bringing the Texas and Pacific Railroad to Colorado City, Texas. Mooar died in 1918 in Colorado City, Texas.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, financial material, printed material, and a diary relating to the business and personal concerns of the Mooar brothers. It bulks (1871-1900) with financial materials of the Mooar brothers' business enterprises. There are lesser amounts of correspondence dealing with personal and family matters. Of particular interest is a letter describing the battle of Adobe Walls.

 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) Mooar, John Wesley, 1846-1918 Mooar, J. Wright (John Wright), 1851-1940 Places Mooar Brothers Ranch (Tex.) Scurry County (Tex.)--History Mitchell County (Tex.)--History Subjects Adobe Walls, Battle of, Tex., 1874 American bison hunting--Texas--history American bison

Gift, 1955

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, June 2003

 Preferred Citation

John Wesley Mooar Papers, 1871-1917 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Branch, Edward Douglas. The Hunting of the Buffalo.Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Robinson, Charles M. The Buffalo Hunters. Austin, Texas: State House Press, 1995.

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

Margaret McCollum Mooar Papers, 1870-1920 Lydia Louise Mooar Papers, 1876-1971 and undated Collection Inventory Papers, 1871-1917 and undated 1 1 Correspondence, Notes, and etc., 1871-1875 1 2 Correspondence, Notes, and etc., 1876-1877 1 3 Correspondence, Notes, and etc., 1877-1879 1 4 Correspondence, Notes, and etc., 1880-1881/ 1 5 Correspondence, Notes, and etc., 1882-1889 1 6 Correspondence, Notes, and etc., 1890-1917 1 7 Financial Documents - Bills and Receipts, 1881-1901 1 8 Financial Documents - Bound Volumes, (4 items) 1876-1880 2 1 Financial Documents - Bound Volumes, (6 items) 1881-1890 2 2 Miscellaneous Documents - Correspondence, Maps, and etc., 1871-1891 and undated 2 Item 1 Financial Documents - Mooar Brothers Bills and Receipts, bound volume, 1899-1901