Descriptive Summary
Walker, Donald R. (Donald Roy), 1941-
Donald Roy Walker Papers,
1902-1994 and undated
These are the papers
of historian and writer, Donald R. Walker.
S1589.1
Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University
6 boxes (6.0 linear
feet)
English.
Biographical Sketch
Donald Roy (Don R.) Walker is a History professor at Texas Tech
University. He has written two books and numerous articles on a variety
subjects. Prior to receiving his Ph.D. in History from Texas Tech, Walker was
in the Peace Corps in Africa from 1965-1968, and served with the U.S. State
Department in South Vietnam from 1969-1972.
Scope and Contents
The Walker Papers are comprised of research material, which Dr. Walker
used in the writing of his Ph.D. dissertation
Penology for Profit: A History of the Texas Prison
System, 1876-1912, which was published as a book in 1988 and
Frontier Texas Mercantile: The History of the
Gibbs Brothers and Company, Huntsville, 1841-1900, as well as other
articles, both published and unpublished. It is subdivided into bibliographic
information, papers on convict lease labor, criminology, granger movement,
penitentiary systems, railroads, photographs, and thesis and dissertations.
Organization
The collection is organized into the following series: Correspondence,
Literary Production, Research Materials, and Thesis and Dissertations.
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)
Walker, Donald R. (Donald Roy), 1941-
Walker, Donald R. (Donald Roy), 1941- --Archives
Walker, Donald R. (Donald Roy), 1941- --Manuscripts
Subjects
Convict labor--Texas--History
General stores--Texas--Huntsville--History
Gibbs Brothers and Company--History
Mercantilism–-Texas
Prisons--Texas--History
Texas penitentiary
Collection accession #(s):
97-0171-B, 98-0214-B
Gifts, 1997-1998.
Access Restrictions
Open for research
Processed by
Abel Ramirez, December 2003
Preferred Citation
Donald Roy Walker Papers, 1902-1994 and undated, Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
Texas
For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
- Texas and Louisiana Penal Code microfilm collection
- Donald R. Walker's Oral History Interviews
Collection Inventory
Correspondence
1
1
Arkansas State Penitentiary,
1949-1981 and
undated
1
2
Bibliographic Information Miscellaneous,
undated
1
3
Convict Lease Labor: general,
undated
1
4
Gibbs,
1985-1988
1
5
Gibbs, article 1890,
undated
1
6
Gibbs, article about the Gibbs family,
1979
1
7
Gibbs-Bond by Huntsville Citizens to pecure SHNI,
undated
1
8
Gibbs book,
1994
1
9
Gibbs-Chapter Contents,
undated
1
10
Gibbs-Copy of Sam Houston’s Will,
1986
1
11
Gibbs-County Tax Rolls,
undated
1
12
Gibbs-Descendants of Sanford St. John Gibbs,
January 1985
1
13
Gibbs-Distribution of Profits,
1935-1948
1
14
Gibbs-Drafts of Preface and acknowledgements,
undated
1
15
Gibbs-Dr. James Philip,
undated
1
16
Gibbs-Excerpts from a history of San Jacinto County,
1940
1
17
Gibbs-family genealogy,
undated
1
18
Gibbs-family interviews,
undated
1
19
Gibbs-Financial Condition,
1976-1977
1
20
Gibbs-History of Cameron Banks,
undated
1
21
Gibbs-History of Firm done by Houston law firm,
undated
1
22
Gibbs-History of Huntsville, First United Methodist
Church,
undated
1
23
Gibbs-Inactive (Brazonia Co.),
undated
1
24
Gibbs-Inactive (Brazos Co.),
undated
1
25
Gibbs-Inactive (Castro Co.),
undated
1
26
Gibbs-Inactive (Culberson Co.),
undated
1
27
Gibbs-Inactive (Hale Co.),
undated
1
28
Gibbs-Inactive (Henderson Co.),
undated
1
29
Gibbs-Inactive (Houston Co.),
undated
1
30
Gibbs-Inactive (Jasper Co.),
undated
1
31
Gibbs-Inactive Land Books
Grimes County,
undated
1
32
Gibbs-Inactive (Leon Co.),
undated
1
33
Gibbs-Inactive (Liberty Co.),
undated
1
34
Gibbs-Inactive (Madison Co.),
undated
1
35
Gibbs-Inactive (Martin Co.),
undated
1
36
Gibbs-Inactive and Minerals,
undated
1
37
Gibbs-Inactive and Minerals (Newton Co.),
undated
1
38
Gibbs-Inactive (Montgomery Co.),
undated
1
39
Gibbs-Inactive (Swisher Co.),
undated
1
40
Gibbs-Inactive (Trinity Co. and Polk Co.),
undated
1
41
Gibbs-Inactive (Walker Co.),
undated
1
42
Gibbs-Information on family of Sallie E. Gibbs,
undated
1
43
Gibbs-Information on founding SHNI,
1977
1
44
Gibbs-Information on Gibbs bank,
undated
1
45
Gibbs-Information on J.W. Oliplimb,
1934
1
46
Gibbs-Information on Sandford Gibbs from NUNN book,
1962
1
47
Gibbs-Item, article restate historical designation,
1964
1
48
Gibbs-Interviews with family members,
1986
1
49
Gibbs-Legal Documents,
1916-1965
1
50
Gibbs-Letter from Wilbourn Sanford to Dr. J. P. Gibbs,
1930
1
51
Gibbs-Libraries and articles on Gibbs book,
1985-1987
1
52
Gibbs-Library Mexita,
1992
1
53
Gibbs-listings of lands left to SEG Sanford St. J.
Gibbs,
undated
1
54
Gibbs-Listing of land owned by G.B. and Co., W.S. Gibbs,
undated
1
55
Gibbs-listing of property left by SEG to her children,
undated
1
56
Gibbs-list of Tenants,
1917-1950
1
57
Gibbs-LJG’s Chapter Outline (Titles only),
undated
1
58
Gibbs-Management Structure,
1949
1
59
Gibbs-Memos to W.S. Gibbs from Gibbs Vinson Reprofit,
undated
1
60
Gibbs-Minerals (Montgomery County),
undated
1
61
Gibbs-Minerals (Walker County),
undated
1
62
Gibbs-Minerals (Walker County),
undated
1
63
Gibbs-Mrs. Wilbourn Smith Gibbs,
undated
1
64
Gibbs-Partnership Structure,
undated
1
65
Gibbs-Questions for Gibbs employees,
undated
1
66
Gibbs-Recommendation Re-Timber Holding,
1970
1
67
Gibbs-Sallie E.,
undated
1
68
Gibbs-Sam Houston Letter on Secession,
undated
1
69
Gibbs-Sanford St. John Gibbs,
undated
1
70
Gibbs-Sandford Supports SHNI,
undated
1
71
Gibbs-Sketch of G. B. and Co. for Walker County History,
1984
1
72
Gibbs-Slave holdings,
1986
1
73
Gibbs-Some Secondary Sources of Southern Business,
undated
1
74
Gibbs-South Carolina Origins,
undated
1
75
Gibbs, Thomas,
undated
1
76
Gibbs-Thomas Clifton,
undated
1
77
Gibbs-Thomas Gibbs’s will and property inventory,
undated
1
78
Gibbs-T. and S., Contract and TSP 1866,
undated
1
79
Gibbs, T. and S.,
undated
1
80
Gibbs-Wilbourn Sanford Gibbs,
undated
1
81
Gibbs-Wilbourn Smith,
1988
1
82
Gibbs-Will of Sandford St. John 1886,
undated
1
83
Huntsville-History of Newspapers published there,
undated
1
84
Huntsville-1890 pictorial Book,
1979
1
85
Inactive Walker Company,
undated
2
1
Inactive Walker Company,
undated
2
2
J. A. Herring Superintendent and J. W. Wright,
undated
2
3
J. A. Herring Superintendent and J. W. Wright,
undated
2
4
Photographs, miscellaneous,
undated
2
5
Records Relating to the Penitentiary,
undated
2
6
Reproduction of holdings of the Texas state archives,
1915 and
undated
2
7
Reproduction of the holdings of the Texas State
Archives,
undated
2
8
State of Texas, Travis County,
undated
2
9
Texas A and M University Press,
1991-1992
2
10
Texas A and M University,
1991-1994
2
11
Texas State Penitentiary,
undated
2
12
Texas State Penitentiary,
undated
2
13
Texas State Penitentiary Archives,
undated
2
14
Texas State Penitentiary System in Rusk,
undated
2
15
Texas State penitentiary System in Rusk,
undated
2
16
TDC-house
Journal Report of 1885
Penitentiary investigation,
undated
2
17
TDC-Info on early prison from Baldwin’s thesis on Walker
Co.,
1957
2
18
University of Arkansas,
1974-1978
Literary Production
2
19
“American Prisons: A study in American Social History,”
1936
2
20
An act establishing a prison system in the state of
Texas,
1911
2
21
“The annals of the American Academy of political and
social,”
undated
2
22
Arkansas state penitentiary 1874-1896,
undated
2
23
“The attempt to create a Republican part in Arkansas,”
1942
2
24
Black intellectual in the New South,
undated
2
25
Brooks-Baxter Contest,
undated
2
26
The Capitol Boycott: A study in peaceful labor tactics,
undated
2
27
Capitol Building Commission,
1979
2
28
Cecil Gibbs Gee: The story of her life,
undated
2
29
Convict Labor and the labor reformers,
undated
2
30
Convict labor policies by Henry Calvin Mohter,
undated
2
31
“The convict lease system in Arkansas and the fight
for,”
undated
2
32
“Henry Tomlin: The man who fought the Brutality,”
undated
2
33
Convict Labor System of Texas,
undated
2
34
Convict Labor in the United States,
undated
2
35
Convict Lease Labor, New York,
undated
2
36
Convict Lease papers, general,
undated
2
37
Courts and convict labor, by Julian Leavitt,
undated
2
38
“Crime and Treatment of the criminal,”
1910
2
39
“Crime and Treatment of the criminal,”
1970
2
40
Criminal law, criminology, and police science,
undated
2
41
Early history of labor organizations in Texas 1838-1876,
undated
2
42
Engineers report on Rusk penitentiary,
undated
3
1
Evolution, adaptation and survival,
undated
3
2
Federal experiments with Negro labor 1862-1865,
undated
3
3
“Federal and state laws relating to convict labor,”
1914
3
4
Fighting the lease system with pardons,
undated
3
5
Four decades of thought on the south’s economic
problems,
undated
3
6
Government, politics, citizenship,
undated
3
7
Governor O. B. Colquitt,
undated
3
8
Granger movement in Arkansas,
undated
3
9
Hell exploded: an exposition of barbarous cruelty and
prison,
undated
3
10
“Historians guide to statistics,”
1971
3
11
Historical development of Eastern-Southern Freight rate,
undated
3
12
House papers,
undated
3
13
Ideology of white supremacy 1876-1910,
undated
3
14
Iniquity of leasing convict labor,
undated
3
15
“An interpretive history of Texas Convict Lease
1817-1914,
undated
3
16
Iron and steel in America,
undated
3
17
James Sprunt studies in history and political science,
undated
3
18
“Journal of the house of representatives of the fourth
called,”
1910
3
19
“The knights of labor in the south,”
1978
3
20
Labor unionism and convict labor,
undated
3
21
Legal systems in Texas,
undated
3
22
Letters from Texas Coast 1875,
undated
3
23
“List of references on prison labor,”
1915
3
24
“Messages of Governor O. B. Colquitt,”
1913
3
25
“The minutes of the board of public labor,”
undated
3
26
“A monetary and banking history of Texas,”
1930
3
27
Negro criminality in the south,
undated
3
28
Negro involuntary servitude in the south 1865-1940,
undated
3
29
On crimes and punishment,
undated
3
30
One solution of the convict labor problem,
undated
3
31
Origin and development of Tennessee’s Prison 1831-1871,
undated
3
32
Our penal system and its purposes,
1909
3
33
Overthrow of the convict lease system in Tennessee,
undated
3
34
Pardoning power in Texas,
undated
3
35
Peakon’s Magazine, vol. XXIX,
undated
3
36
Penal reform movement in south during the Progressive
Era,
undated
3
37
Penal slavery and southern reconstruction,
undated
3
38
Penitentiary,
undated
3
39
Penology in the Westward movement,
undated
3
40
Pills, petticoats and plows, southern country store,
undated
3
41
Pioneers in criminology,
undated
3
42
“A political history of the Texas Prison System
1847-1957,
1962
3
43
Politics of the convict lease system in Louisiana:
1868-1901,
undated
3
44
Politics and punishment,
1971
3
45
Populist dreams and negro rights,
undated
4
1
“Prison discipline in America 1847,”
1973
4
2
Proceedings of the Tax-payers convention of Texas,
undated
4
3
Public welfare administration in Louisiana,
1976
4
4
“Punishment and reformation, 1895,”
1971
4
5
Putting a bounty on crime,
undated
4
6
Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association,
undated
4
7
“A question of great delicacy: the Texas capitol
competition,”
undated
4
8
Race, economics, and the abandonment of convict leasing,
undated
4
9
Records of the capitol building,
1980 and undated
4
10
“A record of evidence and statements before the
penitentiary,”
1913
4
11
Reforms in the Penal System of Tennessee, 1820-1850,
undated
4
12
Report on the case of Conrich Garcia,
undated
4
13
Report of the commission on Texas Penitentiary 1875,
undated
4
14
“Report on the condition of the state penitentiary,
1870,”
undated
4
15
Report of the condition of the Texas State penitentiary
1876,
undated
4
16
Report of the lessees of the Texas State penitentiary
1876,
undated
4
17
Report of the senate committee investigating the affairs
1915,
undated
4
18
Research opportunities of economic history of south
after,
undated
4
19
Rules, regulations, and by-laws for the government 1893,
1977
4
20
Slavery in the south today by Richard Barry,
undated
4
21
Second annual report of the commissioner of labor, 1886,
undated
4
22
Second biennial report of the house of correction
reformatory,
undated
4
23
Sequel to slavery: the new history views,
1977 and undated
4
24
“The Shadow of slavery: peonage in the south, 1901-1969,
undated
4
25
“A short history of the sugar industry in Texas,”
1961
4
26
Significance of the racial factor in the length of
prison,
undated
4
27
“Speech of Thos. M. Campbell 1906,”
undated
4
28
Southern Country Store 1800-1860,
undated
4
29
South’s Immigrant Problem,
undated
4
30
State Penitentiary,
undated
4
31
State Penitentiary letters,
undated
4
32
State Penitentiary letters,
undated
4
33
State Penitentiary letters,
undated
5
1
State penitentiary letters,
undated
5
2
“The story of punishment: a record of man’s inhumanity,”
1972
5
3
Sugar land and the men who made it,
undated
5
4
A survey of the Texas Penitentiary system,
undated
5
5
Testimony of assistant superintendent D. M. short,”
undated
5
6
Texas “Black Uprising,” Scare of 1883,
undated
5
7
“The Texas Convict: Thrilling and terrible experience
of,”
1970
5
8
Texas penitentiary 1911,
1969
5
9
Texas State investigating committee: reports and
proceedings,
1902
5
10
Texas state penitentiary, 1882,
undated
5
11
Texas state penitentiaries paper,
1981 and undated
5
12
Trade unions and prison labor by E. Stagg Whitin, Ph.
D.,
undated
5
13
Twentieth annual report of the commissioner of labor
1905,
undated
5
14
“Twentieth Century Texas,”
1942
5
15
Two Years in the Texas Hell,
undated
5
16
Voices of protest from the New South 1875-1910,
1955
5
17
“The Wheel of servitude: Black forced labor after
slavery,”
1978
Research Materials
5
18
Handwritten notes for Gibbs book,
undated
5
19
Bibliographic note cards for Gibbs project, 1841-1987,
undated
5
20
Bibliographic note cards for Gibbs project, 1892-1958,
undated
Thesis and Dissertations
5
21
“The administration of governor John Ireland,
1883-1887,”
1934
5
22
“The administration of governor L. S. Ross 1887-1891,”
1935
5
23
“The administration of governor S. W. T. Lanham
1903-1907,
undated
6
1
Early History of Walker County, Texas,
1957
6
2
“The Historian and the Computer,”
1971
6
3
Historical Account of the East Texas Prison at Risk,
1979
6
4
“A Historical Overview of the American Labor Movement,”
1975
6
5
History of the Mississippi Penitentiary,
1930
6
6
“The Major Administrative Policies of Oran Milo
Roberts,”
1925
6
7
Origin and Early History of the Louisiana Penitentiary,
1934
6
8
“Penal Systems and Penal Reforms in the South,”
1947
6
9
“The penitentiary movement in Texas, 1849,”
1970
6
10
“Prisons, Politics and Business: The Convict Lease
System,”
1964
6
11
“Richard Bennett Hubbard, The Demosthenes of Texas,”
1957
6
12
“The Rise of the Democrats to Power in Texas,”
1940
6
13
Silver Politics in the United States: 1918-1946,
1951
6
14
Sociological Study of Huntsville, Texas 1927,
undated
6
15
“A study of the laws passed during the administration of
O. M.,”
1949
6
16
“Texas under the regime of E. J. Davis,”
1919
6
17
“Thomas B. Love’s Service in the Texas Legislature,”
1958