Westerners International, Stockton Corral Records, 1958-

Summary

Title:

Westerners International, Stockton Corral Records,

Dates:

1958-

Creators:

Stockton Corral of Westerners

Language:

English.

Preferred citation:

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

Background

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Physical description:

4 linear ft.

About this collection guide

Date Prepared:

© 1998

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: 1994; 1998, 2008.

Restrictions:

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

Location of this collection:

University of the Pacific

University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library

Stockton, CA 95211, US

Contact:

(209) 946-2404

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