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Berten Wendell Allred papers, 1880-1974
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Allred, B. W. (Berten Wendell), 1904-
- Title
- Berten Wendell Allred papers
- Dates
- 1880-1974 (inclusive)18801974
- Quantity
- 9 boxes, (4 linear feet)
- Collection Number
- UUS_COLL MSS 118
- Summary
- Correspondence, personal writings, reports, and reprints covering Allred's professional life and interests. The bulk of the material covers the topics of cattle, cattle trails, western livestock raising and western historical topics. The collection contains several items relating to Utah history, especially to San Juan County
- Repository
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Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu - Access Restrictions
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No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Berten Wendell Allred was a soil conservationist, a rancher and a historian and his papers reflect these interests. As a young man he worked and lived as a cowboy in Southern Utah. He later became a soil scientist and began to work for the federal government. Eventually he ended up in Washington, D. C. It was here, in the nation's capital, that he became more academically oriented towards western history. He became active in the Westerners and together with Jeff Dykes and Fred Renner formed the Buckaroos. The purpose of this group was to review western Americana books for Westerners' publications.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection has been divided into there main series--personal material, professional and consultant work and western history subject files and reprints.
Allred's personal files are comprised of correspondence, biographical material, and his own essays and articles. The correspondence has been processed alphabetically by correspondent. Worthy of note are the correspondence files relating to western artist and author, Ross Santee. Allred and Santee were friends and upon Santee's death, Allred began to work on a biography of the late author. While involved in this project, Allred wrote to, and received letters from, Santee's friends and relatives concerning the author. This material is found in Santee correspondence files. Included in this material are two letters from Santee to Allred that are illustrated with water colors.
In addition to the correspondence and biographical files are a series of articles and essays written by Allred. These articles reflect his interests in cattle breeds, rangeland, cattle trails, Mormons, outlaws and general western history topics. Several of his essays relate his experiences while a young man "punchin cows" in southern Utah.
The collection contains a small amount of Allred's professional work. After he retired in the late 1960s he continued to do range work. Pertinent to this area are his notes and the federal reports on a study done on the Bear River Basin Drainage system. Also in the section are reports from work that Allred did in Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Mali.
Finally, the collection houses subject files and a series of reprints relating to western history topics. These articles have been arranged alphabetically by author.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Berten Wendell Allred papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation
Initial Citation: Berten Wendell Allred Papers USU_COLL MSS 118, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations:USU_COLL MSS 118, USUSCA.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Organized into three series -- I. Personal, II. Professional, III. Western history subject files and reprints.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series I: Personal, undatedReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
Personal materials - Correspondence, Biographical Material and Personal Writings |
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| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | Incoming Correspondence
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, A-L
|
undated |
| 1 | 2 | Incoming Correspondence
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, M-Z
|
undated |
| 1 | 3 | Outgoing Correspondence |
undated |
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence with J. Evetts Haley |
undated |
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence with Louis P. Merrill |
undated |
| 1 | 6-11 | Correspondence with and about, Ross Santee |
undated |
| 1 | 12-13 | Biographical Material |
undated |
| 1 | 14 | Jeff Dykes' appraisal of Allred's book and art collection |
undated |
| 1 | 15 | Book catalogues offered by Allred |
undated |
| 1 | 16 | "A Personal History
Folders 16-29 are articles and essays written by Allred that cover the topics of cattle breeds and rangeland issues.
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undated |
| 1 | 17 | "The Beefmaster Breed" |
undated |
| 1 | 18 | "Brahman or Zebu" |
undated |
| 1 | 19-20 | Chapters on various cattle breeds |
undated |
| 1 | 21 | "Charbray" |
undated |
| 1 | 22 | "Herefords" |
undated |
| 1 | 23 | "Perfection Breeding and Feeding a Spring Valley Hereford Farms" |
undated |
| 1 | 24 | "Conservation of Argentina's Natural Pasture" |
undated |
| 1 | 25 | "Fat Cows and Good Grass or Lean Cows and Gullies" |
undated |
| 1 | 26 | "How to Develop G.P. Conservation Program Contracts Where Either Public Lands or Unsecured Leased Lands are Used by a Producer" |
undated |
| 1 | 27 | "The Place of Grazing Lands In the World Economy" |
undated |
| 1 | 28 | "Utah Natural Resources - Wildlife" |
undated |
| 1 | 29 | "Utah Ranges are a Vast Multiple Purpose Renewable Resource Little Understood." |
undated |
Essays and articles written by Allred
Covers topics of cattle trails and general western history
|
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| Box | Folder | ||
| 2 | 1 | "American Cattle Trails" |
undated |
| 2 | 2 | "The Chisholm Trail" |
undated |
| 2 | 3 | "Colonial Seaboard Cattle Trails" |
undated |
| 2 | 4 | "Colonial Settlement and Cattle Origins" |
undated |
| 2 | 5 | "First Texas Longhorn Beefsteaks in New York, 1854" |
undated |
| 2 | 6 | "A Stand Up Shoot-Out" |
undated |
| 2 | 7 | "Broomtails" |
undated |
| 2 | 8 | "Chasing Mavericks in the Cedars" |
undated |
| 2 | 9 | "Cowboy Miser" |
undated |
| 2 | 10 | "The Cross H Ranch" |
undated |
| 2 | 11 | "Danites - The Mormons' Secret Service. Porter Rockwell, Bill Hickman, John D. Lee" |
undated |
| 2 | 12 | "Environmental Quality" |
undated |
| 2 | 13 | "Erosion On the Chisholm Trail" |
undated |
| 2 | 14 | "The First Western Rendezvous" |
undated |
| 2 | 15 | "Flat Top Ranch" |
undated |
| 2 | 16 | "History Grazing on Tonto National Forests as told to Allred by Rangers Fred W. Croxen and Joe H. Hand"" |
undated |
| 2 | 17 | "History of the American Cowboy and Cattle Ranching"
(Handwritten manuscript)
|
undated |
| 2 | 18 | "Horse Thief Trail" |
undated |
| 2 | 19 | "I Cut My Teeth on a Saddlehorn" |
undated |
| 2 | 20 | "Injun Medicine" |
undated |
| 2 | 21 | "The Life of a Horse and Buggy Stageline Operator" |
undated |
| 2 | 22 | "Nick Wilson Story, Granstville, Utah" |
undated |
| 2 | 23 | "Joseph Nimmo's Scarce Report of the Early Range Cattle Trade" |
undated |
| 2 | 24 | Joseph Nimo, Jr. correspondence and notes to an introduction about Nimmo |
undated |
| 2 | 25 | "Mercur" |
undated |
| 2 | 26 | "The Pleasant Valley Feud" |
undated |
| 2 | 27 | "Punchin Cows" |
undated |
| 2 | 28 | Sheepherders Song |
undated |
| 2 | 29 | "To Zion in a Handcart" |
undated |
| 2 | 30 | "The Green: Rendezvous River" |
undated |
| 2 | 31 | "Rivers that Feed America's Dead Sea |
undated |
| 2 | 32 | "The Sacramento: Nile of the West" |
undated |
| 2 | 33 | "The Utah War - 1857-1858 or Buchanan's Blunder" |
undated |
| 2 | 34 | "West Desert" |
undated |
Articles and essays written by Allred |
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| Box | Folder | ||
| 3 | 1 | "Rivers that Feed Old Lake Bonneville" |
undated |
| 3 | 2-3 | "Miscellaneous Essays by Allred" |
undated |
| 3 | 4 | Biographical Sketches - Jeff Dykes, John Ross Browne, Tom Horn, Oury Brothers, Burton Mossman, William Wolfskill, and Mary Hunter Austin |
undated |
| 3 | 5-9 | Notes |
undated |
| 3 | 10 | Articles by Allred in the Sheep and Goat Raiser magazine |
undated |
| 3 | 11 | Notes from Saudi Arabian work. |
undated |
| 3 | 12-13 | Oral interview of Allred conducted by Charles Peterson |
undated |
| 3 | 14-16 | "Grand and San Juan County Reminiscences About William Eugene Gordon,"
The remainder of the box contains six spiral notebooks with notes about various topics that were of interest to Allred.
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1973 May 18 |
Series II: Professional, undatedReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
Consultant work conducted by Allred |
undated | ||
| Box | book | ||
| 4 | 1 |
Bear River Basin Inventory and Assessment of the Biotic Resources.
Utah Division of Water Resources
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undated |
| Folder | |||
| 4 | 1 | "Land Quality of the Croplands, Rangelands and Commercial Forest Areas of the Bear River Basin"
Utah Division of Water Resources
|
undated |
| 4 | 2-8 | Bear River Basin project notes, etc. |
undated |
| 4 | 9-16 | Consultant Work |
undated |
| Box | |||
| 5 | Reports from the Bear River Basin Project
(2 books)
|
undated | |
| 6 | Materials from Allred's work in Saudi Arabia, Argentina and Africa |
undated | |
| Box | Folder | ||
| 6 | 1-3 | Correspondence regarding work in Mali |
undated |
| 6 | 4-8 | Reports from Mali |
undated |
| 6 | 9 | Notes on African work |
undated |
| 6 | 10-18 | Material from work in Argentina |
undated |
LaSal National Forest History and excerpts from the Grand Valley Times
|
undated | ||
Series III: Western History Subject Files and Reprints, undatedReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
Subject Files |
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| Box | Folder | ||
| 8 | 1 | American Cattleman's Association |
undated |
| 8 | 2 | America's Cattle Trails - Map |
undated |
| 8 | 3 | Camp Floyd |
undated |
| 8 | 4 | Dobie, J. Frank |
undated |
| 8 | 5 | Map of Moab area |
undated |
| 8 | 6 | Old Trail Drivers Association of Texas |
undated |
| 8 | 7 | Predator problems in Utah - Articles about |
undated |
| 8 | 8 | Redd Ranch - Clippings about |
undated |
| 8 | 9-12 | Swan Cattle and Land Company |
undated |
| 8 | 13-16 | Photographs of maps and trails in American history |
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| 8 | 17 | U.S.D.A. |
undated |
| 8 | 18 | Utah Cattle History - Clippings about |
undated |
| 8 | 19 | Utah Cattlemen's Association |
undated |
| 8 | 20 | Utah Historic Trail Maps |
undated |
| 8 | 21 | Utah War |
undated |
| 8 | 22 | The Westerners - miscellaneous publications |
undated |
| 8 | 23 | The Westerners - San Diego Corral publications |
undated |
| 8 | 24 | The Westerners - Potomac Corral publications |
undated |
| 8 | 25 | The Westerners - Tucson Corral publications |
undated |
| 8 | 26 | Wyoming Hereford Ranch |
undated |
Reprints |
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| Box | Folder | ||
| 9 | 1-3 | Articles about the western range appearing in the American Cattle producer |
undated |
| 9 | 4 | "B" |
undated |
Item: 1: Bell, James G.
"A Log of the Texas-California Cattle Trail, 1854." Southwestern Historical Quarterly.(3 parts)
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1932-1933 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Reprints "B" |
undated |
Item: 1: Bishko, Charles Julian
"The Peninsular Background of Latin American Cattle Ranching" The Hispanic American Historical Review
|
1952 | ||
Item: 2: Bogue, Allan
The Progress of the Cattle Industry in Ontario During the Eighteen Eighties". Reprinted from Agricultural History 21: 163-168
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1947 July | ||
Item: 3: Bonner, James G.
"The Open Range Livestock Industry in Colonial Georgia" Reprinted from the Georgia Review. 27: 85-92
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1963 Spring | ||
Item: 4: Burnett, Edmund Cody
"The Hog Drivers' Play-Song and Some of its Relatives." Reprinted from Agricultural History. 23: 161-168
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1963 July | ||
| 9 | 6 | Reprints "D" |
undated |
Item: 1: Dobie, J. Frank
"Tom Candy Pontin's Drive of Texas Cattle to Illinois." The Cattleman
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1949 January | ||
Item: 2: Duffield, George C.
"Driving Cattle from Texas to Iowa, 1866Annals of Iowa.
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1924 April | ||
Item: 3: Dykes, J. C.
"A Range of Man's Library"
|
undated | ||
| 9 | 7 | Reprints "F" |
undated |
Item: 1: Freeman, J. D.
"The Gila River: South West Trail"
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undated | ||
Item: 2: Friis, Herman R.
"The Humboldt: Life Line Through the Desert."
|
undated | ||
Item: 3: Fussell, G. E.
"The Size of English Cattle in the Eighteenth Century"
|
undated | ||
| 9 | 8 | Reprints "H" |
undated |
Item: 1: Hammond, George P.
"Onate's Effort to Gain Political Autonomy for New Mexico" The Hispanic American Historical Review
|
undated | ||
Item: 2: Harger C. M.
"Cattle Trails of the Prairies" Scribner's Magazine
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1982 June | ||
Item: 3: Haines, Francis
"Where Did the Plains Indians Get Their Horses?" American Anthropologist
|
1938 | ||
Item: 4: (Blank Author)
"The Northward Spread of Horses Among the Plains Indians" American Anthropologist
|
1938 | ||
| Box | Folder | ||
| 9 | 9 | Item: 1: Reprints "H"Holden, W. C.
"The Problem of Hands on Spur Ranch" Southwestern Historical Quarterly
|
undated |
Item: 2: Hutcheson, Virginia Sue
"Cattle Drives in Missouri" Missouri Historical Review
|
undated | ||
| 9 | 10 | Reprints "L-N" |
undated |
Item: 1: Lasley, John F.
Results and Progress of Beef Cattle Heterosis Project. North Missouri Research Center.
|
1969 | ||
Item: 2: Lawrence, Eleanor
"Horse Thieves on the Spanish Trail." Touring Topics.
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1931 March | ||
Item: 3: Lemmer, George F.
"The Spread of Improved Cattle Through the Eastern United States to 1850." Reprinted from Agricultural History. 21: 79-93
|
1947 | ||
Item: 4: Morrisey, Richard J.
"The Northward Expansion of Cattle Ranching in New Spain, 1550-1600." Reprinted from Agricultural History. 25: 115-121
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1951 July | ||
| 9 | 11 | Reprints "O" |
undated |
O'Neil, Floyd A. and Gregory C. Thompson
"The Dominguez-Excalante Trail From Montrose, Colorado to the Head of East Fork Douglas Creek, August 27-September 7, 1776"
|
undated | ||
| 9 | 12 | Reprints "P-R" |
undated |
Item: 1: Palmer, William I.
"the Colorado: Barrier to Western Progress"
|
undated | ||
Item: 2: Redd, Charles E.
"Short Cut to the San Juan"
|
undated | ||
Item: 3: Rhoad, A. O. and J. Kleberg, Jr.
"The Development of a Superior Family in the Modern Quarter Horse." The Journal of Herdity. 37: 227-238
|
1946 | ||
Item: 4: Rusho, W. L.
"Prehistory and History of the Green River Basin, Wyoming." Utah Westerners
|
1974 July | ||
| 9 | 13 | Reprints "S" |
undated |
Item: 1: Smither, Harried, ed.
"Diary of Adolphus Sterne." Southwestern Historical Quarterly
|
undated | ||
Item: 2: Streeter, Floyd Benjamin
"The National Cattle Trail"
|
undated | ||
| 9 | 14 | "V-Z" |
undated |
Item: 1: Vallandigham, E.M.
"What is the Mason Dixon Line?"
|
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Item: 2: Weaver, J.E. and F.W. Albertson
"Resurvey of Grasses, Forbs, and Underground Plant Parts at the End of the Great Drought." Ecological Monographs v.13, no.1
|
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Item: 3: Wentworth, Edward N.
"The Patterning of Meat"
|
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Item: 4: (Blank Author)
Hereford Personalities in the Saddle and Sirloin Club
|
undated | ||
Item: 5: Williams-Humiston, Belle
"Reminiscences of my Father and Mother."
|
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Item: 6: Wilson, Adam
"Hunting Texas Wild Boar." The Cattleman
|
undated | ||
Item: 7: Woodward, Carl R.
"Agricultural Legislation in Colonial New Jersey"
|
undated | ||
Item: 8: Zeichner, Oscar
"The Transition from Slave to Free Agricultural Labor in the Southern United States"
|
undated | ||
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Cattle breeds
- Cattle trails--West (U.S.)
- Conservation of natural resources
- Ranch life--Texas.
- Ranch life--Utah.
- Range ecology
- Rangelands--Arizona--History.
- Rangelands--Revegetation
- Trails--West (U.S.)
Personal Names
- Redd, Charles A., 1954-
- Dobie, J. Frank(James Frank), 1888-1964
- Santee, Ross, 1889-1965
- Dykes, Jeff, 1900-
- Gordon, William Eugene.
- Haley, J. Evetts.
- Merrill, Louis P.
- Nimmo, Joseph, 1837-1909
Corporate Names
- Swan Land and Cattle Company
- Wyoming Hereford Ranch
Geographical Names
- Bear River (Utah-Idaho)
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
- Dominquez-Escalante Trail.
- Green River (Wyo.-Utah)
- La Sal Mountains (Utah)
- Tonto National Forest (Ariz.)--History.
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