urn:taro:ttu.sw.00265 Dan Scurlock: An Inventory of His Papers, 1906-2005 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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September 27, 2005 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided Karen Hicks, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, September 2005 Finding aid written in English. Inventory for the Dan Scurlock Papers, 1906-2005 and undated Abel Ramirez Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, 2005 Descriptive Summary Scurlock, Dan Dan Scurlock Papers, 1906-2005 and undated The collection contains research materials compiled by Dan Scurlock concerning the history of Eastern New Mexico and the Panhandle Texas. S1695.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 6 boxes (6.0 linear feet) English Biographical Sketch

Dan Scurlock has worked in the American Southwest as an archeologist, historian, and naturalist for more than forty years. He has been employed by the U. S. National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, several state agencies, universities, and private companies in the Southwest and Florida, as well as grant organizations funding his independent efforts. During this time Dan has carried out extensive library and archives research, oral history interviews, field survey and site selection, historic artifact analyses, and report writing. One of his more recent efforts was co-authoring four regional New Mexico overviews funded by the Historical Preservation Division for which he received an award from the New Mexico Historical Society. He also carried out research of the environmental history of the region, especially the Rio Grande and Pecos River basins and southwestern ponderosa pine forests under U. S. Forest Service contracts. He has published more than 200 books, reports, journal papers, and magazine and newspaper articles; and has led field trips across the Southwest, northern Mexico, and southwestern Canada over the past several decades. Dan recently moved from Albuquerque to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where he is working on a history of the area, a biography of Doc Scurlock, who fought in the Lincoln County War, conducting an oral history program, and working to preserve an early 20th century adobe church.

 Scope and Contents

The collection contains mostly research materials gathered by Dan Scurlock in his areas of interest. Most deal with the environmental history of Eastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle region. The collection also contains seven card file boxes of chronological and bibliographic cards of historic events of the New Mexico and Texas region. Some files deal with the Comanche, Comancheros, Ciboleros, and the buffalo. The photographs and slides detail historic sites and tourist attractions.

 Organization

The collection is organized into the following series: Correspondence Legal Material Literary Production Printed Material Projects Research Material Computer Disks Photographs Card File Boxes

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) Scurlock, Dan Subjects American Bison Frontier and pioneer life--Texas Frontier and pioneer life--New Mexico Indians of North America--Texas Natural History--New Mexico Natural History--Texas New Mexico--Environmental conditions Ranching--Texas--History Ranching--New Mexico--History Texas--Antiquities

Gifts, 2005

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, 2005

 Preferred Citation

Dan Scurlock Papers, 1906-2005 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:

Dan Scurlock Oversized Materials of Maps, O8.12 Ernest Wallace Papers, 1850-1986 and undated John Wesley Mooar Papers, 1871-1917 and undated Collection Inventory Correspondence 1 1 Letters to De Baca County News, 2000 1 2 U. S. Department of Interior grant application, 2002 Legal Material 1 3 Billy the Kid, Petition to Exhume, 2004 Literary Production 1 4 “Appraisal of the Archaeological Resources of Padre Island, Texas,” by T. N. Campbell, 1964 1 5 “Buffalo Soldiers: Guardians of the Southwest Frontier,” by Dan Scurlock, undated 1 6 “Early Day Postal Service” by Jenna V. Ownbey, 1951 1 7 “Carson’s Running Water Draw Ranch” by Dan Scurlock, undated 1 8 Historical Chronology of New Mexico, Colorado and West Texas, 1999 1 9 Historical Chronology of Middle Pecos, 2000 1 10 History of Littlefield and Lamb County, Texas, 2001 1 11 Llano-Canadian manuscript by Dan Scurlock, the trade route, undated 1 12 “New Mexico in the 20th Century” by Dan Scurlock, 2000 1 13 Pecos-Llano Heritage, newsletters of Friends of Fort Sumner’s Heritage, 1999-2001 1 14 Salado/Guadalupe, De Baca County, New Mexico, hand written manuscript by Dan Scurlock, undated 1 15 “Valley, Grass and Sky: The Natural Setting” by Dan Scurlock, 2000 Printed Material 1 16 “The Central New Mexico East-West Transportation Corridor Regional Overview,” by Pratt, Biechel, and Scurlock, 1988 1 17 Cloud Train, by Joan Aleshire, 1982 1 18 “Llano, River and Mountains: The Southwest New Mexico Regional Overview,” by Boyd C. Pratt and Dan Scurlock, 1989 1 19 Miscellaneous, 2005 and undated 1 20 News clippings by Dan Scurlock, 1999 1 21 “The Skeleton of Yellowhouse Canyon,” by W. W. Newcomb, Jr., 1955 1 22 “Trail to New Mexico” poem, 1988 1 23 “The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo” in Spanish, 2001 Projects 1 24 Chronology History Project, 2000-2002 1 25 Topics List for Dan Scurlock, undated Research Material 1 26 Anton Chico on the Upper Pecos River, 1980-2004 and undated 1 27 Bison Ecology, 1991 1 28 Buffalo, 1947-1967 1 29 Buffalo: Natural History and Range, 1940-1996 1 30 Buffalo Hunting, 1937-1985 1 31 Buffalo hair, plant names, and the Indians, 1909-1969 1 32 Canadian River, 1990-1995 1 33 Canadian River Basin, Southern Plains, New Mexico and Panhandle Texas, 1976-1977 1 34 Canadian River: Colonial Period, ca. 1980s 1 35 Canadian River History: Oklahoma, 1951 1 36 Canon Blanco, Tijeras Road, undated 1 37 Captive Indians, undated 1 38 Cattle Ranches in Tascosa Area, 1946-2000 and undated 1 39 Ciboleros, undated 1 40 Comanchero clothing, undated 1 41 Comanchero trails, 1963-1997 1 42 Comancheros, 1935-1994 1 43 Comanchero-Cibolero place names and trails, 1975-1997 1 44 Comanchero Trade Goods, 1969-1983 1 45 Comanche, 1969-1970 1 46 Early Spanish Expeditions, 1974-2003 1 47 Canadian River in New Mexico: Anglo arrival between 1980-1900, 1945-1970 and undated East Central New Mexico 1 48 Buffalo Soldiers, 1986-1999 1 49 Cattle Brands, undated 1 50 Cattle Drift, Llano Estacado, 1933 1 51 Chaves County, 1933-2001 2 1 Chaves County Ranches, undated 2 2 Cimmaron and Colfax County, undated 2 3 Clovis, 1997 2 4 Corona, Lincoln County, 1960 2 5 Cowboy Lingo, undated 2 6 Cowboy Grub, undated 2 7 Cowboys, 1971-1999 2 8 Curry County History and Ranches, 1978 and undated 2 9 Estancia Valley, undated 2 10 Fort Bascom, undated 2 11 History, 1966-1989 2 12 Homesteaders, 1978-1999 2 13 Jack Potter’s view of the cattle trails and ranching, 1939 2 14 John Chisum, undated 2 15 Lincoln County Historical Society newsletters, 1998-1999 2 16 Llano Estacado Ethnohistory, 1971-1973 2 17 Missouri Settlement, undated 2 18 Quay County and Caballo Lake (house), 1968-1980 2 19 Ranching in the Llano Estacado, 1969-2000 2 20 Roosevelt County, 1977 2 21 Sheep on the Llano Estacado, 1978 2 22 Violence, 1998-1999 2 23 Environmental History of Northeast New Mexico, 1974-2000 2 24 Fauna of the Caprock in Panhandle Texas, 1949-1972 2 25 Fort Sumner Military Reservation, Abstract, 1906 2 26 Grant Application: Comanchero-Cibolero Trails, 2002 2 27 Hispanic Handbook, Terms for field work, 1976-1980s 2 28 Historical Climate of West Texas, 1928-1966 2 29 Jicarilla Apache Ethnohistory, 1974-1977 2 30 Jicarilla Archeology, 1959-1978 2 31 Las Vegas, San Miguel County, undated 2 32 List of Birds of Upper Pecos New Mexico, 1911 and undated 2 33 Llano Estacado Blacksmith, 1970 2 34 Loma Parda and Fort Union, 2002 2 35 LX Ranch of Texas, 1933 2 36 Mexican Settlement in the Texas Panhandle, 1961 and undated 2 37 Military in El Paso area, 1982 2 38 Native Americans, 1989-1998 2 39 Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and Review, 1999 2 40 Photocopied Maps of New Mexico areas, undated 2 41 Physiography, soils of southeast New Mexico, 1986 2 42 Population Census of Eastern New Mexico during 1890, 1900, and 1910, undated 2 43 Railroad history, undated 2 44 Ranching and Environmental History, Pecos Valley, 1968-1983 2 45 Rodriguez-Chamuscado Expedition, Big Bend, Texas, 1936 2 46 San Jose, Garita, Montoya, and Trementina, 1985 2 47 Shackleford County, Texas and Fort Griffin, 1998 2 48 Sheep and Cattle in New Mexico, 1999 2 49 Slave Trade in New Mexico, 1985 2 50 South Plains Ecology, 1961 2 51 Texas Panhandle History, 1954-2000 and undated 2 52 Trade and Goods Trails on the Upper Pecos, New Mexico, undated 2 53 Trade Goods: Comanchero, 1961-1990 and undated 2 54 Trade Goods of the South Plains: Comanche and Kiowa, 1939-1976 2 55 Trade Route from New Mexico, 1979-1988 2 56 Trade Routes, Trade Items, and Indian History in New Mexico, hand notes, 1978 and undated 2 57 Trade with Southwest Tribal Indians, 1978-1987 2 58 Trappers and Traders, 1991-1999 2 59 Tucumcari, New Mexico, undated 2 60 Upper Pecos, 1959-1987 2 61 Upper Pecos Environment, 1978-2001 2 62 Vegetation of Upper Pecos Basin, undated 2 63 Villanueva, La Cuesta, and El Cerrito, 1958-1977 2 64 Water Conservation in Fort Sumner and De Baca County, undated 2 65 Western Oklahoma history, undated 2 66 Wichita-French-Spanish Trade, 1970 Scrapbook Material 3 1 Miscellaneous, undated Computer Disks 3 2 Various Data: Correspondence, interview transcriptions, newsletters, and notes, 1998-2003 Photographs 3 3 Albuquerque, New Mexico and surrounding areas, slides, 1980-1997 3 4 Architecture: Plains Pecos, San Juan Basin, Zuni Area, Camino Real, New Mexico, slides, 1980-1991 3 5 Architecture in New Mexico, slides, 1979-1991 3 6 Architecture in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Texas, slides, 1960-1980 3 7 Camino Real, Rio Abajo, and Upper Pecos, New Mexico, slides, 1981-1993 3 8 Environmental and Scenic sites, Sandia Mountains and Albuquerque, New Mexico, slides, 1980-1989 3 9 Environmental fauna, New Mexico slides, 1974-1985 3 10 Flowers and Vegetation slides, 1980-1984 3 11 Historic Eco-cultural slides of New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, 1980-1992 3 12 Historic sites and attractions slides, Arizona, Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, 1972-1995 3 13 Las Huertas, New Mexico slides, 1983-1997 3 14 New Mexico scenes and other sites, slides, 1979-1995 4 1 Landscapes and Scenic sites: New Mexico and Padre Island, Texas, slides, 1964-1988 4 2 Scenic Landscapes: Arizona, Colorado, California, Utah, slides, 1967-1986 4 3 Prints: New Mexico and Colorado attractions and Texas work sites, 1971-1998 4 4 Assorted Prints: Scenic landscapes, conferences, and historic sites, 1976-1984 and undated Card File Boxes 5 1 Anton Chico Upper Pecos Basin Historic, chronological cards from 1541-1999, undated 5 2 Bibliography cards of Upper Pecos Basin, Southern Plains, Billy the Kid, undated 5 3 New Mexico and Texas, chronological cards from 1540s-1990s, undated 5 4 Comanche, Comancheros, Ciboleros, chronological cards from 1400-1871, undated 6 1 Comanche, Comancheros, Ciboleros, chronological cards from 1400-1894, undated 6 2 New Mexico and Texas, historic chronological cards from 1700-1990s, undated 6 3 Southern Plains historic chronological cards from 1850-1990s, undated