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Photograph of a man sitting on a horse, a cowboy's mount, in a yard in front of a stone house at Almos Ranch, Texas, [United States] in [1907].

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Article, illustration and photographs from the St. Louis Dispatch, January 24, 1909 entitled, "Bringing a Harem to Texas" about Dr. C C Young's importing Karakul sheep from Bokhara [Uzbekistan] to Holliday [Texas]. The illustraion shows a man in Arabic dress offering a platter with small men on it to a Western man in a top hat. There is a map of the Central Asian region and two photographs of women in Uzbek costume.

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Photograph of a herd of cattaloes (cattle-American buffalo hybrids) on the range at the Goodnight Ranch in Texas in the early/mid 20th century. The text beneath the image notes the cross-breeding experiments done by Colonel Charles Goodnight and C J ('Buffalo') Jones in the 1880's.

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Photograph of cattle dipping in Texas with the men using Cooper's Cattle Dip while President Taft stands to one side supervising in the early 20th century [between 1909-1913].

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Photograph of a herd of goats in a paddock with a man standing near them and a woman and child in the background next to a thatched building in the early 20th century near Eagle Pass, Texas.

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Photograph of men, women and children who were goat keepers standing in front of a thatched building near Eagle Pass, Texas, [United States] in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of a herd of goats in a pen with their black, dog guardian standing in the foreground with three women and a baby in the background in front of a thatched building in Eagle Pass, Texas, [United States], in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of a herd of goats in a paddock with a man and his dog standing amongst them and a woman holding a baby in the background next to a thatched building in the early 20th century near Eagle Pass, Texas.

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Photograph of Karakule [Karakul] sheep in a sheep pen next to a barn with a man, Young's manager, and a boy holding lambs in the early 20th century [possibly in El Paso, Texas, United States].

Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton thanking him for his comments on his memoir The Charleston Earthquake of August 31, 1886, ( 1889) telling him that he is now employed by the War Department rather then the United States Geological Survey. He expresses dismay that he is being transferred to Texas from Washington, where he can see no role for himself. He tells Geikie that he is considering writing a cowboy novel or possibly an historical...