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Book C C  Slaughter

Download or read book C C Slaughter written by David J. Murrah and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born during the infant years of the Texas Republic, C. C. Slaughter (1837–1919) participated in the development of the southwestern cattle industry from its pioneer stages to the modern era. Trail driver, Texas Ranger, banker, philanthropist, and cattleman, he was one of America’s most famous ranchers. David J. Murrah’s biography of Slaughter, now available in paperback, still stands as the definitive account of this well-known figure in Southwest history. A pioneer in West Texas ranching, Slaughter increased his holdings from 1877 to 1905 to include more than half a million acres of land and 40,000 head of cattle. At one time “Slaughter country” stretched from a few miles north of Big Spring, Texas, northwestward two hundred miles to the New Mexico border west of Lubbock. His father, brothers, and sons rode the crest of his popularity, and the Slaughter name became a household word in the Southwest. In 1873—almost ten years before the “beef bonanza” on the open range made many Texas cattlemen rich—C. C. Slaughter was heralded by a Dallas newspaper as the “Cattle King of Texas.” Among the first of the West Texas cattlemen to make extensive use of barbed wire and windmills, Slaughter introduced new and improved cattle breeds to West Texas. In his later years, greatly influenced by Baptist minister George W. Truett of Dallas, Slaughter became a major contributor to the work of the Baptist church in Texas. He substantially supported Baylor University and was a cofounder of the Baptist Education Commission and Dallas’s Baylor Hospital. Slaughter also cofounded the Texas Cattle Raisers’ Association (1877) and the American National Bank of Dallas (1884), which through subsequent mergers became the First National Bank. His banking career made him one of Dallas’s leading citizens, and at times he owned vast holdings of downtown Dallas property.

Book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book

Download or read book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.

Book The American Hereford Record  and Hereford Herd Book

Download or read book The American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rise and Fall of the Lazy S Ranch

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Lazy S Ranch written by David J. Murrah and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lazy S Ranch, one of the last major ranches to be established in Texas, came into being at a time when most of the other great ranches were disappearing. Founded in 1898 by Dallas banker and rancher Colonel Christopher Columbus Slaughter, the Lazy S grew to comprise nearly 250,000 acres of the western High Plains in Cochran and Hockley counties, much of which lay in a single contiguous pasture of more than 180,000 acres. Even with careful investment and management, C. C. Slaughter faced many challenges putting together an extensive ranch amid the development of the farmers’ frontier on the high plains. Within a decade, he crafted the Lazy S to become a showplace for well-bred cattle, effective range management, and efficient utilization of limited water resources. He created a working ranch that would serve as a long-lasting legacy for his wife and nine children, to remain “undivided and indivisible.” But shortly after his death in 1919, the family drained its resources, drove it into debt, then divided the land ten ways. In the 1930s, good fortune returned to some of the Slaughter heirs with the discovery of oil on the family lands. Though the Lazy S Ranch was soon forgotten, the breakup of the ranch spurred a new era for the western Llano Estacado and led to the establishment of a county, growth of four new towns, and a railroad across the heart of the ranch, fostered for the most part by the land development projects of Slaughter’s descendants. Here, David J. Murrah covers the entire, fascinating history in The Rise and Fall of the Lazy S Ranch.

Book The South Western Reporter

Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.

Book United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports

Download or read book United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports written by United States. Courts of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Federal Reporter

Download or read book The Federal Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Book United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports

Download or read book United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supreme Court Reporter

Download or read book Supreme Court Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States Supreme Court Reports

Download or read book United States Supreme Court Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.

Book Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States

Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references.

Book The Banking Law Journal

Download or read book The Banking Law Journal written by Edward White and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal devoted to banking law and practice for bankers and bank attorneys. Includes articles, notes on court cases, and summaries of legislation.

Book The Southwestern Reporter

Download or read book The Southwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book PPI Detailed Report

Download or read book PPI Detailed Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book

Download or read book The American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.