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Title of Collection: Lone Star Land Company Records, 1879-1955 and undated

Institution:

  1. The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
  2. Texas Tech University
  3. MS 41041
  4. Lubbock, Texas 79409
  5. 806-742-3749
  6. https://swco.ttu.edu/

Contact Person: Reference Librarian

Date: March 18, 2005

Accession number(s): None for the record.

Collection number: S582.1

Size of Collection: 35 boxes and 10 ledgers (37 linear feet)

Biographical Sketch:

The Lone Star Land Company was formed in 1924 by William Pulver Soash and members of the C.C. Slaughter family for the purpose of selling Slaughter lands in West Texas, primarily in Howard, Borden, Dawson, Martin, Lamb, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, and Hartley counties of Texas. Most of the company’s activities were completed by 1944, and the firm dissolved in 1955.

Scope and Content:

Contains correspondence, financial material, land sales files, legal material, township files, miscellaneous files and Slaughter family files. The collection bulks with financial materials (1922-1955) and land sales files (1915-1954) concerning transactions of the company. For details to an inventory click here: Inventory.

Organization:

  1. Organized by series.
  2. Correspondence: Box 1-3
  3. Land Sales: Box 4-13
  4. Miscellaneous Box 13-15
  5. Financial Documents: Box 16-23
  6. Legal Documents: Box 24-26
  7. Slaughter Family Affairs: Box 27-30
  8. Townships: Box 30
  9. Miscellaneous II: Box 31
  10. Financial Documents II: Box 32-35
  11. Financial Documents III: Ledgers 1-10

Related Materials in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library:

  1. W. P. Soash Land Company Records, 1907-1918
  2. William Pulver Soash Papers, 1894-1967 and undated
  3. Lone Star Land Company Photograph Collection, SWCPC 419

Acquisition: Gift, 1968

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access.

Processed by: Abel Ramirez, Spring 2005

Preferred Citation:

  1. Lone Star Land Company Records, 1879-1955 and undated,
  2. Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech
  3. University, Lubbock, Texas

Collection Topics:

  1. Lone Star Land Company
  2. C. C. Slaughter Cattle Company
  3. Slaughter family
  4. Land development – West Texas
  5. Soash, William Pulver

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.