The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 105
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Texas Collection
Texas needs a new group of Breckenridges, Littlefields, and
Schreiners - men of great resources - who are willing to put
some of their resources back into the cultural betterment of
Texas.
Within the last year, so many inquiries have reached the
office regarding the King Ranch of Texas that it seems advisable
to give in the Texas Collection a reference to "The World's
Biggest Ranch" in Fortune, December, 1933, pp. 49ff. The
article is the best ever done on the ranch. It is splendidly il-
lustrated and a beautiful color map locates the three divisions of
the ranch in Texas. The King Ranch is an empire of cattle
containing 1,250,000 acres stocked with Herefords, Brahmas, and
the ranch's own special Santa Gertrudis breed. The ranch op-
erates with an annual profit of about $400,000.
Captain James Taylor, AC, 0-910883, Hq. VII AF, APO No.
953, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, California, writes from the
Gilbert Islands on March 28, that he is a long way from home -
a long way from Texas. He sends greetings, however, to all his
friends in the state and relates that he finds the Gilbert natives
friendly and interesting. He flew from Oahu to the Gilberts.
S. W. Geiser, of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, sends
the following inquiry to this department regarding a noted
horse-tamer, who was in Texas in 1855.
JOHN SOLOMON RAREY (1827-66)
A recent volume, Bookmen's Holiday (Deoch Fulton (ed.), The New
York Public Library, 1943), has lately come into my hands. It is a
book in honor of Harry Miller Lydenberg, long-time member of the
staff, and from 1935 to 1941 Director of the library. Among its many
fine essays (chiefly on bibliographical subjects) is one by Robert W.
Henderson on JOHN SOLOMON RAREY (1827--66), world-famous horse-tamer
and -trainer.
I confess to delight in this essay. For many years I have been interested
in Rarey because of his "apprenticeship" in early Texas. His life has
been written by contemporaries, and the Dictionary of American Biography
has a sketch of him. T. B. Thorpe (1861)1 published an account of
Rarey, and obituary notices appeared in the New York Times (Oct. 8,
1866, p. 5, col. 2), the New York Tribune (Oct. 9, 1866, p. 9, col. 5),2
"Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXII (1861), 615-24.
21 include this citation from the New York Public Library Reference
Department; the Library of Congress copy of this issue fails to show
the obituary.105
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945, periodical, 1945; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146055/m1/109/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.