This collection includes personal and official
correspondence, photographs, articles, speeches, clippings, notes and related
material on cowboys, Arizona pioneers, cattle industry and
agriculture.
Collection Number:
AZ 298
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
Biographical Note
Charles U. Pickrell was a livestock specialist and was Director of the
University of Arizona Agricultural Extension Service from 1937-1958.
Scope and Content Note
This collection includes personal and official correspondence,
photographs, articles, speeches, clippings, notes and related material on
cowboys, Arizona pioneers, cattle industry and agriculture. It includes
clippings from son Robert W. Pickrell's campaign for State Attorney General,
1960; some records of the Extension Service, including staff rosters,
1891-1958; photographs of cattle, sheep, and unidentified pioneers; materials
from 1952 South Africa trip as consultant to British Government on economic
development and cattle production; and manuscript material for a history on the
University's College of Agriculture. It also includes cowboy poems by Bruce
Kiskaddon, printed on Los Angeles Union Stock Yards calendars, 1941- 1959, and
research on cattle brands.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish
from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record,
the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The
user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the
University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Correspondence: Orme, Charles and family.
, 1955-1961
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5
Correspondence: Osborn, Governor Sidney P.
, 1945
6
6
Correspondence: Parker, Charles Franklin.
, 1944-1961
6
7
Correspondence: Parker, Charles Franklin.
Includes an article about Charles Pickrell by Charles Parker
entitled "Teller of True Tall Tales,"
Arizona Highways, October 1961 and fan
mail to Charles Pickrell.
6
8
Correspondence: Pickrell, Charles U., Jr.
(son).
6
9
Correspondence: Pickrell, James (son).
6
10
Correspondence: Pickrell, Robert (son).
6
11
Correspondence: Pickrell, Watson (father).
6
12
Correspondence: W. W. "Bill" (brother).
6
13
Correspondence: Pickrell, William Smith and family
(cousins).
6
14
Correspondence: Miscellaneous Pickrell family.
6
15
Correspondence: Pyle, Howard.
, 1955-1957
6
16
Correspondence: Rhodes, John J.
, 1958-1961
6
17
Correspondence: Ridgeway, William (talk given at meeting
of Westerners).
, June 1,
1957
6
18
Correspondence: Shute, G. W.
, 1953-1958
Includes revised article, "Pleasant Valley War," taken from
Arizona Cattlelog, April 1956.
6
19
Correspondence: Thornburg, Wayne.
, 1942-1961
6
20
Correspondence: Udall Family.
, 1946-1961
6
21
Correspondence: Wallace Family (in-laws).
6
22
Correspondence: Webb Family.
Includes reprint of articles from
Arizona Cattlelog.
