The Cattle and Ranch Collection, 1847-1940, contains financial and legal records, correspondence, newspaper clippings, a brand book, historical narratives, and reminiscences, which concern ranching, the cattle trade, and cattle drives. The majority of the collection consists of newspaper clippings collected by archives staff about the cattle trade and ranching industry in Texas from the 1900s to 1940. Original correspondence and transcriptions of letters, 1858-1875, discuss stray cattle and life on Texas ranches. Collected by historian J. Evetts Haley, the narratives and reminiscences, [ca. 1924-1935], pertain to the history of specific ranches, memoirs of cattlemen and cowboys, and the cattle trade and cattle drives in Texas and the west. Original financial and legal documents include an 1847 estray bond; an 1875 power of attorney; an 1883 bill of trust; an 1877 Calloway County tax receipt; a debt cancellation; and numerous bills of sale for cattle and supplies purchased by N. C. Gullett and others, dated from 1857 to 1890. The undated brand book contains clippings of different cattle brands in Colorado.