[Texas]: [Cason, William M.]:

$3,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

CAP McDANNALD'S ADOBE RANCH HUNT 1939. [with:] WHITE WING SHOOT 1939. A collection of two souvenir books and printed ephemera from two 1939 hunting events with Texas connections, and related gatherings in 1940 and 1941. The first book is an illustrated souvenir book of the annual pronghorn hunt in southwest New Mexico, at the famed Adobe Ranch owned by A.T. "Cap" McDannald of Houston, Texas. The photographs are mounted above printed captions and record bear and antelope hunts, and the book is signed by A.T. McDannald and many of the participants: Ray W. Smith, Gene Farren, T.E. Swigart, Elliot Barker, S. Marcus Greer, George E.B. Peddy, Jimmy Lawry, W.H. ("Tommy") Thompson, J.W. Gist, A.D. Simpson, R.C. Hochmuth, G.W. Yates, Gus Meyer, R.M. McDannald, C.E. McDannald, and Chase Sutton (signature). A portrait of McDannald with trophy is additionally inscribed by Cap to Bill Cason.The second volume is a small illustrated booklet commemorating the September 1939 White Wings Shoot, a dove hunt in McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, organized by "Blackie" (Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company) and "Brownie" (Brown Oil Tools, Inc.). Bill Cason is listed among the participants and as a pilot for one of the Halliburton planes that flew the party from Houston to McAllen. With a printed luggage tag from the "Blackie" & "Brownie" 1939 Hunt.Four additional items relate to these events: a yellow armband embroidered "HOST"; a small leather badge in form of a cowhide branded W.M. Cas

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