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Manuscript document written on the letterhead of Fort Elliott, Texas, certifying the marriage of George A. Simpson and Sylvania Wood, signed by the post Adjutant, Lt. Theo. H. Eckerson.

Charles Goodnight supposedly received this silver-mounted saddle- made by F.M. Stern of San Jose, California- as a gift from a Mexican government official. Goodnight presented the saddle to his foster son’s wife, Retta (Mrs. Cleo) Hubbard, in 1926.…

Floor plans and a plot plan for the Talmage Place Apartments building in Amarillo, Texas.

Born in Indiana, Higgins (1884-1949) studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in Munich and Paris. He first visited Taos in 1914, moving there in 1915. Higgins joined the Taos Society of Artists in 1917 and helped form “The New Mexico Painters: in…

Called the “father of British painting,” Hogarth (1697-1764) most likely completed this portrait of his mother after her death. It remained in the artist’s family until 1790. After 1901 its whereabouts were unknown. In 1929, James D. Hamilton…

Mead (1902-1986) studied at the Art institute of Chicago and with Hugo D Pohl in San Antonio. In the early 1930s, he had a studio near Palo Duro Canyon and painted three murals for PPHM’s Pioneer Hall. Mead also lived in San Antonio and in Dallas and…

O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was a supervisor of drawing and penmanship for Amarillo schools from 1912 to 1914. In September of 1916, O’Keeffe began teaching at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon. While in Canyon, O’Keeffe spent her free time painting…

Personal letter from John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, to Charles Goodnight, thanking him for a gift of socks made from buffalo wool.

Painted by famous panhandle artist Frank Reaugh in 1925.

17" x 35" Painting of a white and tan bull in the foreground, facing right, standing over the rest of a herd of dark cattle in the distance. All under an expansive light blue sky.

This…

This was most likely Reaugh’s masterpiece. The Approaching Herd was exhibited at the Art institute of Chicago and the Society of Western Artists in 1903 and at the Texas State Fair in 1905. It hung in the White House office of former President George…