Donald Roy Walker: An Inventory of His Papers, 1902-1994 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Walker, Donald R. (Donald Roy), 1941-
	Title:	Donald Roy Walker Papers,
	Dates:	1902-1994 and undated
	Abstract:	These are the papers of historian and writer, Donald R. Walker.
	Collection #	S1589.1
	Quantity:	6 boxes (6.0 linear feet)
	Language	English.
	Repository:	Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

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.

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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The History of the Gibbs Brothers and Company, Huntsville, 1841-1900, as well as other articles, both published and unpublished.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.

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Organization
	The collection is organized into the following series: Correspondence, Literary Production, Research Materials, and Thesis and Dissertations.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open for research

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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

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Related Material


	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

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Donald Roy Walker Papers, 1902-1994 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Collection accession #(s):
97-0171-B, 98-0214-B

Gifts, 1997-1998.

Processed by

Abel Ramirez, December 2003

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Collection Inventory



Correspondence
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1	1	Arkansas State Penitentiary, 1949-1981 and undated
	2	Bibliographic Information Miscellaneous, undated
	3	Convict Lease Labor: general, undated
	4	Gibbs, 1985-1988
	5	Gibbs, article 1890, undated
	6	Gibbs, article about the Gibbs family, 1979
	7	Gibbs-Bond by Huntsville Citizens to pecure SHNI, undated
	8	Gibbs book, 1994
	9	Gibbs-Chapter Contents, undated
	10	Gibbs-Copy of Sam Houston’s Will, 1986
	11	Gibbs-County Tax Rolls, undated
	12	Gibbs-Descendants of Sanford St. John Gibbs, January 1985
	13	Gibbs-Distribution of Profits, 1935-1948
	14	Gibbs-Drafts of Preface and acknowledgements, undated
	15	Gibbs-Dr. James Philip, undated
	16	Gibbs-Excerpts from a history of San Jacinto County, 1940
	17	Gibbs-family genealogy, undated
	18	Gibbs-family interviews, undated
	19	Gibbs-Financial Condition, 1976-1977
	20	Gibbs-History of Cameron Banks, undated
	21	Gibbs-History of Firm done by Houston law firm, undated
	22	Gibbs-History of Huntsville, First United Methodist Church, undated
	23	Gibbs-Inactive (Brazonia Co.), undated
	24	Gibbs-Inactive (Brazos Co.), undated
	25	Gibbs-Inactive (Castro Co.), undated
	26	Gibbs-Inactive (Culberson Co.), undated
	27	Gibbs-Inactive (Hale Co.), undated
	28	Gibbs-Inactive (Henderson Co.), undated
	29	Gibbs-Inactive (Houston Co.), undated
	30	Gibbs-Inactive (Jasper Co.), undated
	31	Gibbs-Inactive Land Books Grimes County, undated
	32	Gibbs-Inactive (Leon Co.), undated
	33	Gibbs-Inactive (Liberty Co.), undated
	34	Gibbs-Inactive (Madison Co.), undated
	35	Gibbs-Inactive (Martin Co.), undated
	36	Gibbs-Inactive and Minerals, undated
	37	Gibbs-Inactive and Minerals (Newton Co.), undated
	38	Gibbs-Inactive (Montgomery Co.), undated
	39	Gibbs-Inactive (Swisher Co.), undated
	40	Gibbs-Inactive (Trinity Co. and Polk Co.), undated
	41	Gibbs-Inactive (Walker Co.), undated
	42	Gibbs-Information on family of Sallie E. Gibbs, undated
	43	Gibbs-Information on founding SHNI, 1977
	44	Gibbs-Information on Gibbs bank, undated
	45	Gibbs-Information on J.W. Oliplimb, 1934
	46	Gibbs-Information on Sandford Gibbs from NUNN book, 1962
	47	Gibbs-Item, article restate historical designation, 1964
	48	Gibbs-Interviews with family members, 1986
	49	Gibbs-Legal Documents, 1916-1965
	50	Gibbs-Letter from Wilbourn Sanford to Dr. J. P. Gibbs, 1930
	51	Gibbs-Libraries and articles on Gibbs book, 1985-1987
	52	Gibbs-Library Mexita, 1992
	53	Gibbs-listings of lands left to SEG Sanford St. J. Gibbs, undated
	54	Gibbs-Listing of land owned by G.B. and Co., W.S. Gibbs, undated
	55	Gibbs-listing of property left by SEG to her children, undated
	56	Gibbs-list of Tenants, 1917-1950
	57	Gibbs-LJG’s Chapter Outline (Titles only), undated
	58	Gibbs-Management Structure, 1949
	59	Gibbs-Memos to W.S. Gibbs from Gibbs Vinson Reprofit, undated
	60	Gibbs-Minerals (Montgomery County), undated
	61	Gibbs-Minerals (Walker County), undated
	62	Gibbs-Minerals (Walker County), undated
	63	Gibbs-Mrs. Wilbourn Smith Gibbs, undated
	64	Gibbs-Partnership Structure, undated
	65	Gibbs-Questions for Gibbs employees, undated
	66	Gibbs-Recommendation Re-Timber Holding, 1970
	67	Gibbs-Sallie E., undated
	68	Gibbs-Sam Houston Letter on Secession, undated
	69	Gibbs-Sanford St. John Gibbs, undated
	70	Gibbs-Sandford Supports SHNI, undated
	71	Gibbs-Sketch of G. B. and Co. for Walker County History, 1984
	72	Gibbs-Slave holdings, 1986
	73	Gibbs-Some Secondary Sources of Southern Business, undated
	74	Gibbs-South Carolina Origins, undated
	75	Gibbs, Thomas, undated
	76	Gibbs-Thomas Clifton, undated
	77	Gibbs-Thomas Gibbs’s will and property inventory, undated
	78	Gibbs-T. and S., Contract and TSP 1866, undated
	79	Gibbs, T. and S., undated
	80	Gibbs-Wilbourn Sanford Gibbs, undated
	81	Gibbs-Wilbourn Smith, 1988
	82	Gibbs-Will of Sandford St. John 1886, undated
	83	Huntsville-History of Newspapers published there, undated
	84	Huntsville-1890 pictorial Book, 1979
	85	Inactive Walker Company, undated
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2	1	Inactive Walker Company, undated
	2	J. A. Herring Superintendent and J. W. Wright, undated
	3	J. A. Herring Superintendent and J. W. Wright, undated
	4	Photographs, miscellaneous, undated
	5	Records Relating to the Penitentiary, undated
	6	Reproduction of holdings of the Texas state archives, 1915 and undated
	7	Reproduction of the holdings of the Texas State Archives, undated
	8	State of Texas, Travis County, undated
	9	Texas A and M University Press, 1991-1992
	10	Texas A and M University, 1991-1994
	11	Texas State Penitentiary, undated
	12	Texas State Penitentiary, undated
	13	Texas State Penitentiary Archives, undated
	14	Texas State Penitentiary System in Rusk, undated
	15	Texas State penitentiary System in Rusk, undated
	16	TDC-house Journal Report of 1885 Penitentiary investigation, undated
	17	TDC-Info on early prison from Baldwin’s thesis on Walker Co., 1957
	18	University of Arkansas, 1974-1978

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Literary Production
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2	19	“American Prisons: A study in American Social History,” 1936
	20	An act establishing a prison system in the state of Texas, 1911
	21	“The annals of the American Academy of political and social,” undated
	22	Arkansas state penitentiary 1874-1896, undated
	23	“The attempt to create a Republican part in Arkansas,” 1942
	24	Black intellectual in the New South, undated
	25	Brooks-Baxter Contest, undated
	26	The Capitol Boycott: A study in peaceful labor tactics, undated
	27	Capitol Building Commission, 1979
	28	Cecil Gibbs Gee: The story of her life, undated
	29	Convict Labor and the labor reformers, undated
	30	Convict labor policies by Henry Calvin Mohter, undated
	31	“The convict lease system in Arkansas and the fight for,” undated
	32	“Henry Tomlin: The man who fought the Brutality,” undated
	33	Convict Labor System of Texas, undated
	34	Convict Labor in the United States, undated
	35	Convict Lease Labor, New York, undated
	36	Convict Lease papers, general, undated
	37	Courts and convict labor, by Julian Leavitt, undated
	38	“Crime and Treatment of the criminal,” 1910
	39	“Crime and Treatment of the criminal,” 1970
	40	Criminal law, criminology, and police science, undated
	41	Early history of labor organizations in Texas 1838-1876, undated
	42	Engineers report on Rusk penitentiary, undated
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3	1	Evolution, adaptation and survival, undated
	2	Federal experiments with Negro labor 1862-1865, undated
	3	“Federal and state laws relating to convict labor,” 1914
	4	Fighting the lease system with pardons, undated
	5	Four decades of thought on the south’s economic problems, undated
	6	Government, politics, citizenship, undated
	7	Governor O. B. Colquitt, undated
	8	Granger movement in Arkansas, undated
	9	Hell exploded: an exposition of barbarous cruelty and prison, undated
	10	“Historians guide to statistics,” 1971
	11	Historical development of Eastern-Southern Freight rate, undated
	12	House papers, undated
	13	Ideology of white supremacy 1876-1910, undated
	14	Iniquity of leasing convict labor, undated
	15	“An interpretive history of Texas Convict Lease 1817-1914, undated
	16	Iron and steel in America, undated
	17	James Sprunt studies in history and political science, undated
	18	“Journal of the house of representatives of the fourth called,” 1910
	19	“The knights of labor in the south,” 1978
	20	Labor unionism and convict labor, undated
	21	Legal systems in Texas, undated
	22	Letters from Texas Coast 1875, undated
	23	“List of references on prison labor,” 1915
	24	“Messages of Governor O. B. Colquitt,” 1913
	25	“The minutes of the board of public labor,” undated
	26	“A monetary and banking history of Texas,” 1930
	27	Negro criminality in the south, undated
	28	Negro involuntary servitude in the south 1865-1940, undated
	29	On crimes and punishment, undated
	30	One solution of the convict labor problem, undated
	31	Origin and development of Tennessee’s Prison 1831-1871, undated
	32	Our penal system and its purposes, 1909
	33	Overthrow of the convict lease system in Tennessee, undated
	34	Pardoning power in Texas, undated
	35	Peakon’s Magazine, vol. XXIX, undated
	36	Penal reform movement in south during the Progressive Era, undated
	37	Penal slavery and southern reconstruction, undated
	38	Penitentiary, undated
	39	Penology in the Westward movement, undated
	40	Pills, petticoats and plows, southern country store, undated
	41	Pioneers in criminology, undated
	42	“A political history of the Texas Prison System 1847-1957, 1962
	43	Politics of the convict lease system in Louisiana: 1868-1901, undated
	44	Politics and punishment, 1971
	45	Populist dreams and negro rights, undated
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4	1	“Prison discipline in America 1847,” 1973
	2	Proceedings of the Tax-payers convention of Texas, undated
	3	Public welfare administration in Louisiana, 1976
	4	“Punishment and reformation, 1895,” 1971
	5	Putting a bounty on crime, undated
	6	Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, undated
	7	“A question of great delicacy: the Texas capitol competition,” undated
	8	Race, economics, and the abandonment of convict leasing, undated
	9	Records of the capitol building, 1980 and undated
	10	“A record of evidence and statements before the penitentiary,” 1913
	11	Reforms in the Penal System of Tennessee, 1820-1850, undated
	12	Report on the case of Conrich Garcia, undated
	13	Report of the commission on Texas Penitentiary 1875, undated
	14	“Report on the condition of the state penitentiary, 1870,” undated
	15	Report of the condition of the Texas State penitentiary 1876, undated
	16	Report of the lessees of the Texas State penitentiary 1876, undated
	17	Report of the senate committee investigating the affairs 1915, undated
	18	Research opportunities of economic history of south after, undated
	19	Rules, regulations, and by-laws for the government 1893, 1977
	20	Slavery in the south today by Richard Barry, undated
	21	Second annual report of the commissioner of labor, 1886, undated
	22	Second biennial report of the house of correction reformatory, undated
	23	Sequel to slavery: the new history views, 1977 and undated
	24	“The Shadow of slavery: peonage in the south, 1901-1969, undated
	25	“A short history of the sugar industry in Texas,” 1961
	26	Significance of the racial factor in the length of prison, undated
	27	“Speech of Thos. M. Campbell 1906,” undated
	28	Southern Country Store 1800-1860, undated
	29	South’s Immigrant Problem, undated
	30	State Penitentiary, undated
	31	State Penitentiary letters, undated
	32	State Penitentiary letters, undated
	33	State Penitentiary letters, undated
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5	1	State penitentiary letters, undated
	2	“The story of punishment: a record of man’s inhumanity,” 1972
	3	Sugar land and the men who made it, undated
	4	A survey of the Texas Penitentiary system, undated
	5	Testimony of assistant superintendent D. M. short,” undated
	6	Texas “Black Uprising,” Scare of 1883, undated
	7	“The Texas Convict: Thrilling and terrible experience of,” 1970
	8	Texas penitentiary 1911, 1969
	9	Texas State investigating committee: reports and proceedings, 1902
	10	Texas state penitentiary, 1882, undated
	11	Texas state penitentiaries paper, 1981 and undated
	12	Trade unions and prison labor by E. Stagg Whitin, Ph. D., undated
	13	Twentieth annual report of the commissioner of labor 1905, undated
	14	“Twentieth Century Texas,” 1942
	15	Two Years in the Texas Hell, undated
	16	Voices of protest from the New South 1875-1910, 1955
	17	“The Wheel of servitude: Black forced labor after slavery,” 1978

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Research Materials
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5	18	Handwritten notes for Gibbs book, undated
	19	Bibliographic note cards for Gibbs project, 1841-1987, undated
	20	Bibliographic note cards for Gibbs project, 1892-1958, undated

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Thesis and Dissertations
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5	21	“The administration of governor John Ireland, 1883-1887,” 1934
	22	“The administration of governor L. S. Ross 1887-1891,” 1935
	23	“The administration of governor S. W. T. Lanham 1903-1907, undated
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6	1	Early History of Walker County, Texas, 1957
	2	“The Historian and the Computer,” 1971
	3	Historical Account of the East Texas Prison at Risk, 1979
	4	“A Historical Overview of the American Labor Movement,” 1975
	5	History of the Mississippi Penitentiary, 1930
	6	“The Major Administrative Policies of Oran Milo Roberts,” 1925
	7	Origin and Early History of the Louisiana Penitentiary, 1934
	8	“Penal Systems and Penal Reforms in the South,” 1947
	9	“The penitentiary movement in Texas, 1849,” 1970
	10	“Prisons, Politics and Business: The Convict Lease System,” 1964
	11	“Richard Bennett Hubbard, The Demosthenes of Texas,” 1957
	12	“The Rise of the Democrats to Power in Texas,” 1940
	13	Silver Politics in the United States: 1918-1946, 1951
	14	Sociological Study of Huntsville, Texas 1927, undated
	15	“A study of the laws passed during the administration of O. M.,” 1949
	16	“Texas under the regime of E. J. Davis,” 1919
	17	“Thomas B. Love’s Service in the Texas Legislature,” 1958

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Donald Roy Walker:

An Inventory of His Papers, 1902-1994 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library

Organization

Access Restrictions

Correspondence

Literary Production

Research Materials

Thesis and Dissertations