The Rise And Fall Of The Lazy S Ranch

DAVID J. MURRAH

Publication: Texas A & M University Press, 2021, College Station

First edition. 8vo. Brown cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, frontispiece, foreword, preface, introduction, illustrated from photographs, map, bibliography, notes, index. A history of the Texas Panhandle ranch that was founded in 1898 by C.C. Slaughter. The ranch grew to encompass over 250,000 acres of the western High Plains in Cochran and Hockley counties. A delightful and entertaining history of the Slaughter family, the heirs, the ranch, the fine quality cattle stock and the eventual demise of it all after the death of Colonel Slaughter in 1919. As new unread copy in dust jacket.