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Cowboys -- Texas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Alexander Forbes Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1658
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints and glass plate negatives, taken by Andrew Alexander Forbes. Includes scenes of the range cattle industry in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, sodhouses, railroad construction, the United States Army, buffalo, andalso of Sac and Fox and Cheyenne Indians.

Dates: 1880-1900
Found in: Western History Collections / Andrew Alexander Forbes Photograph Collection

Edythe Pearl Brewster Collection

 Collection — Box B-60
Identifier: WHC-M-2588
Scope and Contents

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Two biographical typescripts (n.d.) recounting the life of Anna Amelia Doubleday Staton and her family history. One of the typescripts contains a number of cowboy-related stories. Also includes a journal by Oliver Nelson describing his experiences and the experiences of others as cowboys on the Texas range, circa 1882-1945.

Dates: 1860-1950
Found in: Western History Collections / Edythe Pearl Brewster Collection

L. E. Crawford Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-947
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Author. Manuscripts of articles dealing with cattle branding, cowboy life and work, and lists of cattle brands used in Western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and Western Kansas. L.E. Crawford Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1885-ca.1949
Found in: Western History Collections / L. E. Crawford Collection

William Box Hancock Collection

 Item
Identifier: WHC-M-1046
Scope and Contents

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Cowboy. A typewritten autobiography of Hancock's life as a cowboy, primarily at the Woodard and Oge Ranch near San Antonio, Texas, with descriptions of five of his trips up the Western Trail driving cattle, of San Antonio, Rockport, Fort Griffin, and Alpine, Texas, Camp Supply and Fort Reno, Indian Territory, and Dodge City, Kansas, along with an account of his work on ranches in Dakota Territory.

Dates: 1925
Found in: Western History Collections / William Box Hancock Collection
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