Register of the Westerners International, Stockton Corral Records, 1958-

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library, University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211
Phone: (209) 946-2404
Fax: (209) 946-2810
URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
© 1998
University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.



Register of the Westerners International, Stockton Corral Records, 1960-

Collection number: Mss247

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

University Library

University of the Pacific

Contact Information

  • Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
  • University Library, University of the Pacific
  • Stockton, CA 95211
  • Phone: (209) 946-2404
  • Fax: (209) 946-2810
  • URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
Processed by:
Daryl Morrison, Don Walker, Michael Wurtz
Date Completed:
1994; 1998, 2008, 2011
Encoded by:
Don Walker
© 1998 University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Westerners International, Stockton Corral Records,
Date (inclusive): 1958-
Collection number: Mss247
Creator: Stockton Corral of Westerners
Extent: 4 linear ft.
Repository: University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Westerners International, Stockton Corral Records, Mss247, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Biography

The first Corral of the Westerners was established in Chicago on March 27, 1944. Sixteen Stockton (Calif.) men interested in western history laid the framework for the establishment of a Corral there patterned after the Chicago Westerners. Leland Case, a founding member of the Chicago Corral was also one of the founding members of the Stockton Corral. The Corral was organized and chartered as the fourteenth member organization of the Westerners International (1958). Its pincipal activity is the study and dissemination of the history of the American West through regular meetings and a quarterly, The Far Westerner (Vol. I, No. 1 January 1960). Occasionally the Corral also publishes collections of member articles as Valley Trails.

Scope and Content

The Stockton Corral of Westerners Collection contains the articles of incorporation, by-laws, awards information, membership lists, financial records, correspondence and memos, newsletters (Smokesignal), publicity and promotions, minutes of Posse (officers' meetings), publications records, collected Westerners publications, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Holt-Atherton is the depository library for the Stockton Corral of Westerners.

 

BOX 1: Records - alphabetically

 

Auction Records

 

Annual Buffalo Feed and Installation Dinner (See also Awards)

 

Articles of Incorporation

 

Awards (See also Annual Buffalo Feed)

 

-nominees

 

-not received

 

-review again

 

Bonds

 

Brochures, membership card, flyer

 

Buffalo

 

By-Laws (Range Rules)

 

By-Laws, Westerners International

 

California History Institute

 

Ceilidgh

 

Corral List (Stockton No. 14)

 

Correspondence 1980s and 1990s

 

Dues Memberships

 

Far Westerners Table of Contents

 

Far Westerners Manuscripts

 

Holt-Atherton Dept., Space for Archives

 

Insurance, 1966-69

 

Operations Secretary Gracelyn Martin 1980s

 

Posse (officer) job descriptions

 

Programs (ideas for future)

 

Programs, 1962-1969 Coke Wood Correspondence

 

Programs, 1970s

 

Programs, 1980s

 

Programs, 1991-92

 

Programs, 1993

 

Programs, 1994

 

Programs, 2000

 

Publications (by Posse Members)

 

Publications: Keepsake, membership card, brochure. "An Incident by which the humorist Artemus Ward inadvertently kindled a spark in the mind of Mark Twain" Stockton Corral of Westerners (June 1959)

 

Publications, Talks or Manuscripts---I.N. Brotherton talks, 1962

 

-Grayson, California

 

-Burneyville, California

 

-Tuolumne City

 

-Snelling, California

 

Publications---Dutra Book; Valley Trails funding problems

 

Publications---Tule Breakers, Dutra Book

 

Resolutions, 1981

 

Restaurants in Stockton with Meeting Rooms

 

Rosters and Calendars

 

Sheriff's Correspondence and Records 1960s-2000 (multiple folders)

 

BOX 2: Records - Alphabetically

 

Sheriff's Correspondence and Records 1960s-2000 (multiple folders)

 

Sheriff's badges

 

Space (office)

 

Speeches

 

-Old Timers Night, 1974

 

Spring Rendezvous

 

-1971

 

-1984

 

Stockton Record Today Dept. Club notices

 

Tax Information

 

Treasurer's (Keeper of the Chips) Reports 1960s-2000 (12 folders)

 

Valley Trails---Sales and Records

 

Westerners Records 1969-1975

 

Westerners International (parent organization of the Stockton Corral)

 

Westerners International---Award Application (blank)

 

Westerners International---Award

 

Women Members

 

Writing contest

 

Records 1993-1995

 

Box 3: Membership records,1958-

 

BOX 4: Minutes of Posse Meetings, 1963-2000s

 

BOX 5: "SMOKESIGNALS" (newsletter) and Program Announcements, 1960s-2000s

 

BOX 6: PHOTOGRAPHS, NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, AUDIO TAPES

 

Newspaper Clippings

 

Photographs (members and events)

 

Audio Tapes