Dan Scurlock: An Inventory of His Papers, 1906-2005 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library

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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Contents

Organization

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Description of Series

Correspondence

Legal Material

Literary Production

Printed Material

Research Material

Scrapbook Material

Computer Disks

Photographs

Card File Boxes

Dan Scurlock:

An Inventory of His Papers, 1906-2005 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Scurlock, Dan
	Title:	Dan Scurlock Papers,
	Dates:	1906-2005 and undated
	Abstract:	The collection contains research materials compiled by Dan Scurlock concerning the history of Eastern New Mexico and the Panhandle Texas.
	Collection #	S1695.1
	Quantity:	6 boxes (6.0 linear feet)
	Language	English
	Repository:	Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

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.

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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.

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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

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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)
		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

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Related Material


	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

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Dan Scurlock Papers, 1906-2005 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Gifts, 2005

Processed by

Abel Ramirez, 2005

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Collection Inventory

Correspondence

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Letters to De Baca County News, 2000

2

U. S. Department of Interior grant application, 2002

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Legal Material

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3

Billy the Kid, Petition to Exhume, 2004

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Literary Production
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1	4		“Appraisal of the Archaeological Resources of Padre Island, Texas,” by T. N. Campbell, 1964
	5		“Buffalo Soldiers: Guardians of the Southwest Frontier,” by Dan Scurlock, undated
	6		“Early Day Postal Service” by Jenna V. Ownbey, 1951
	7		“Carson’s Running Water Draw Ranch” by Dan Scurlock, undated
	8		Historical Chronology of New Mexico, Colorado and West Texas, 1999
	9		Historical Chronology of Middle Pecos, 2000
	10		History of Littlefield and Lamb County, Texas, 2001
	11		Llano-Canadian manuscript by Dan Scurlock, the trade route, undated
	12		“New Mexico in the 20th Century” by Dan Scurlock, 2000
	13		Pecos-Llano Heritage, newsletters of Friends of Fort Sumner’s Heritage, 1999-2001
	14		Salado/Guadalupe, De Baca County, New Mexico, hand written manuscript by Dan Scurlock, undated
	15		“Valley, Grass and Sky: The Natural Setting” by Dan Scurlock, 2000

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Printed Material
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1	16		“The Central New Mexico East-West Transportation Corridor Regional Overview,” by Pratt, Biechel, and Scurlock, 1988
	17		Cloud Train, by Joan Aleshire, 1982
	18		“Llano, River and Mountains: The Southwest New Mexico Regional Overview,” by Boyd C. Pratt and Dan Scurlock, 1989
	19		Miscellaneous, 2005 and undated
	20		News clippings by Dan Scurlock, 1999
	21		“The Skeleton of Yellowhouse Canyon,” by W. W. Newcomb, Jr., 1955
	22		“Trail to New Mexico” poem, 1988
	23		“The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo” in Spanish, 2001

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Projects

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24

Chronology History Project, 2000-2002

25

Topics List for Dan Scurlock, undated

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Research Material
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1	26		Anton Chico on the Upper Pecos River, 1980-2004 and undated
	27		Bison Ecology, 1991
	28		Buffalo, 1947-1967
	29		Buffalo: Natural History and Range, 1940-1996
	30		Buffalo Hunting, 1937-1985
	31		Buffalo hair, plant names, and the Indians, 1909-1969
	32		Canadian River, 1990-1995
	33		Canadian River Basin, Southern Plains, New Mexico and Panhandle Texas, 1976-1977
	34		Canadian River: Colonial Period, ca. 1980s
	35		Canadian River History: Oklahoma, 1951
	36		Canon Blanco, Tijeras Road, undated
	37		Captive Indians, undated
	38		Cattle Ranches in Tascosa Area, 1946-2000 and undated
	39		Ciboleros, undated
	40		Comanchero clothing, undated
	41		Comanchero trails, 1963-1997
	42		Comancheros, 1935-1994
	43		Comanchero-Cibolero place names and trails, 1975-1997
	44		Comanchero Trade Goods, 1969-1983
	45		Comanche, 1969-1970
	46		Early Spanish Expeditions, 1974-2003
	47		Canadian River in New Mexico: Anglo arrival between 1980-1900, 1945-1970 and undated
			East Central New Mexico
box	folder
1	48			Buffalo Soldiers, 1986-1999
	49			Cattle Brands, undated
	50			Cattle Drift, Llano Estacado, 1933
	51			Chaves County, 1933-2001
box	folder
2	1			Chaves County Ranches, undated
	2			Cimmaron and Colfax County, undated
	3			Clovis, 1997
	4			Corona, Lincoln County, 1960
	5			Cowboy Lingo, undated
	6			Cowboy Grub, undated
	7			Cowboys, 1971-1999
	8			Curry County History and Ranches, 1978 and undated
	9			Estancia Valley, undated
	10			Fort Bascom, undated
	11			History, 1966-1989
	12			Homesteaders, 1978-1999
	13			Jack Potter’s view of the cattle trails and ranching, 1939
	14			John Chisum, undated
	15			Lincoln County Historical Society newsletters, 1998-1999
	16			Llano Estacado Ethnohistory, 1971-1973
	17			Missouri Settlement, undated
	18			Quay County and Caballo Lake (house), 1968-1980
	19			Ranching in the Llano Estacado, 1969-2000
	20			Roosevelt County, 1977
	21			Sheep on the Llano Estacado, 1978
	22			Violence, 1998-1999
	23		Environmental History of Northeast New Mexico, 1974-2000
	24		Fauna of the Caprock in Panhandle Texas, 1949-1972
	25		Fort Sumner Military Reservation, Abstract, 1906
	26		Grant Application: Comanchero-Cibolero Trails, 2002
	27		Hispanic Handbook, Terms for field work, 1976-1980s
	28		Historical Climate of West Texas, 1928-1966
	29		Jicarilla Apache Ethnohistory, 1974-1977
	30		Jicarilla Archeology, 1959-1978
	31		Las Vegas, San Miguel County, undated
	32		List of Birds of Upper Pecos New Mexico, 1911 and undated
	33		Llano Estacado Blacksmith, 1970
	34		Loma Parda and Fort Union, 2002
	35		LX Ranch of Texas, 1933
	36		Mexican Settlement in the Texas Panhandle, 1961 and undated
	37		Military in El Paso area, 1982
	38		Native Americans, 1989-1998
	39		Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and Review, 1999
	40		Photocopied Maps of New Mexico areas, undated
	41		Physiography, soils of southeast New Mexico, 1986
	42		Population Census of Eastern New Mexico during 1890, 1900, and 1910, undated
	43		Railroad history, undated
	44		Ranching and Environmental History, Pecos Valley, 1968-1983
	45		Rodriguez-Chamuscado Expedition, Big Bend, Texas, 1936
	46		San Jose, Garita, Montoya, and Trementina, 1985
	47		Shackleford County, Texas and Fort Griffin, 1998
	48		Sheep and Cattle in New Mexico, 1999
	49		Slave Trade in New Mexico, 1985
	50		South Plains Ecology, 1961
	51		Texas Panhandle History, 1954-2000 and undated
	52		Trade and Goods Trails on the Upper Pecos, New Mexico, undated
	53		Trade Goods: Comanchero, 1961-1990 and undated
	54		Trade Goods of the South Plains: Comanche and Kiowa, 1939-1976
	55		Trade Route from New Mexico, 1979-1988
	56		Trade Routes, Trade Items, and Indian History in New Mexico, hand notes, 1978 and undated
	57		Trade with Southwest Tribal Indians, 1978-1987
	58		Trappers and Traders, 1991-1999
	59		Tucumcari, New Mexico, undated
	60		Upper Pecos, 1959-1987
	61		Upper Pecos Environment, 1978-2001
	62		Vegetation of Upper Pecos Basin, undated
	63		Villanueva, La Cuesta, and El Cerrito, 1958-1977
	64		Water Conservation in Fort Sumner and De Baca County, undated
	65		Western Oklahoma history, undated
	66		Wichita-French-Spanish Trade, 1970

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Scrapbook Material

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Miscellaneous, undated

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Computer Disks

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2

Various Data: Correspondence, interview transcriptions, newsletters, and notes, 1998-2003

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Photographs
box	folder
3	3		Albuquerque, New Mexico and surrounding areas, slides, 1980-1997
	4		Architecture: Plains Pecos, San Juan Basin, Zuni Area, Camino Real, New Mexico, slides, 1980-1991
	5		Architecture in New Mexico, slides, 1979-1991
	6		Architecture in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Texas, slides, 1960-1980
	7		Camino Real, Rio Abajo, and Upper Pecos, New Mexico, slides, 1981-1993
	8		Environmental and Scenic sites, Sandia Mountains and Albuquerque, New Mexico, slides, 1980-1989
	9		Environmental fauna, New Mexico slides, 1974-1985
	10		Flowers and Vegetation slides, 1980-1984
	11		Historic Eco-cultural slides of New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona, 1980-1992
	12		Historic sites and attractions slides, Arizona, Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, 1972-1995
	13		Las Huertas, New Mexico slides, 1983-1997
	14		New Mexico scenes and other sites, slides, 1979-1995
box	folder
4	1		Landscapes and Scenic sites: New Mexico and Padre Island, Texas, slides, 1964-1988
	2		Scenic Landscapes: Arizona, Colorado, California, Utah, slides, 1967-1986
	3		Prints: New Mexico and Colorado attractions and Texas work sites, 1971-1998
	4		Assorted Prints: Scenic landscapes, conferences, and historic sites, 1976-1984 and undated

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Card File Boxes
box	item
5	1		Anton Chico Upper Pecos Basin Historic, chronological cards from 1541-1999, undated
	2		Bibliography cards of Upper Pecos Basin, Southern Plains, Billy the Kid, undated
	3		New Mexico and Texas, chronological cards from 1540s-1990s, undated
	4		Comanche, Comancheros, Ciboleros, chronological cards from 1400-1871, undated
box	item
6	1		Comanche, Comancheros, Ciboleros, chronological cards from 1400-1894, undated
	2		New Mexico and Texas, historic chronological cards from 1700-1990s, undated
	3		Southern Plains historic chronological cards from 1850-1990s, undated

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