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Texas

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Auction Date:2011 Nov 17 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Large archive of approximately 83 pieces, containing several documents pertaining to cattle branding and various other aspects of the cattle trade in Texas in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century including railroad growth and Konowa Indian Territory. A majority of the items come from the family of William Beddo who was a cattle rancher in Texas later settling in the Konawa Indian Territory. Not much can be found on Beddo but he did have a relation to Richard Coffey through business interactions. The archive contains approximately 44 20th-century pieces, approximately 22 19th century pieces, and 14 undated items. Highlights of the archive include:

A letter from the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. dated July 3, 1888, addressed to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding the claim of William Beddo of Palo, Pinto County, Texas for "compensation for depredations allegedly to have been committed in 1871 by Kiowas & Comanche Indians…Your findings are that the cattle and horses were the property of William Beddo, Buck Johnson and Richard Coffey, as joint owners of equal parts thereof; that Comanche Indians committed depredations thereon to the value of $24,720 which sum you recommend for allowance." Richard Coffey was pioneer rancher, Indian fighter, and teamster in the lower Concho River valley. While residing there he served in the Texas Rangers and assisted Capt. Lawrence Sullivan Ross in the rescue of Cynthia Ann Parker. Coffey became a successful rancher but lost over 1,000 cattle and 54 horses to a band of Comanche Indians who attacked a group of Coffey's cattle drivers in 1871. When he filed a claim for his losses, the federal government refused to reimburse him. He rebuilt his herd but never achieved great wealth.

An 1881 deed signed by Governor of Texas, Oran Milo Roberts, granting 640 acres of land in Hardeman County to the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company.

A deed signed between Crockett Rowan and the Houston & Texas Central Railway Company for $1920 to be paid to Rowan for land "situated in the County of Foard in the State of Texas on the waters of Eunis Creek a tributary of the Pease River about seven miles S47E from the center of the county." The deed was signed in 1891 but by 1890, Houston had already been recognized as the railroad center of Texas.

Multiple documents confirming the sale of several cattle and mules to W. A. Beddo; several bank statements for the Beddo family; portions of a 6 x 3.5 notebook with several notations of cattle brands for C. R. Ellington, E. Y. Brown, A.M. Waldrip, W. C. Warford, and W. H. Miller; an agreement signed by Mrs S. J. Loftis, wife of Saul J. Loftis transferring land to L. T. Sammons of Maud Oklahoma Territory land situated in the Seminole Nation, Indian Territory; a Warrant Deed with vendors Lien for J. Crockett Rowan to W.H. Beddo dated April 5, 1892; several bank checks from Konawa Ind. territory written by Beddo in 1905, now known as Konowa, Oklahoma; also several pages bearing sketches and descriptions of various brands

In good to very good overall condition, with some partial and complete separations to folds of some of the items, toning and soiling, and expected age wear.
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